Arbitrarily many independent observers can share the nonlocality of a single maximally entangled qubit pair

Peter J Brown (1) , Roger Colbeck (2)

1 LIP - Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme
2 University of York [York, UK]

Alice and Bob each have half of a pair of entangled qubits. Bob measures his half and then passes his qubit to a second Bob who measures again and so on. The goal is to maximize the number of Bobs that can have an expected violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) Bell inequality with the single Alice. This scenario was introduced in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 250401 (2015)] where the authors mentioned evidence that when the Bobs act independently and with unbiased inputs then at most two of them can expect to violate the CHSH inequality with Alice. Here we show that, contrary to this evidence, arbitrarily many independent Bobs can have an expected CHSH violation with the single Alice. Our proof is constructive and our measurement strategies can be generalized to work with a larger class of two-qubit states that includes all pure entangled two-qubit states. Since violation of a Bell inequality is necessary for device-independent tasks, our work represents a step towards an eventual understanding of the limitations on how much device-independent randomness can be robustly generated from a single pair of qubits.

Domaines: Physique Quantique [quant-ph]

Peter J Brown, Roger Colbeck. Arbitrarily many independent observers can share the nonlocality of a single maximally entangled qubit pair. Physical Review Letters, 2020, 125 (9), pp.090401. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.090401⟩. ⟨hal-03143215⟩