Closing the detection loophole in multipartite Bell experiments with a limited number of efficient detectors

TL;DR

This paper introduces multipartite Bell inequalities that enable closing the detection loophole with only a few highly efficient detectors, demonstrated on various quantum states, advancing device-independent quantum experiments.

Contribution

The authors propose new Bell inequalities that require only a limited number of efficient detectors to close the detection loophole in multipartite Bell tests.

Findings

Most studied multipartite states violate the inequalities with only two efficient detectors.

Remaining detectors can have arbitrarily small efficiencies.

The inequalities are useful for device-independent applications with few high-efficiency detectors.

Abstract

The problem of closing the detection loophole in Bell tests is investigated in the presence of a limited number of efficient detectors using emblematic multipartite quantum states. To this end, a family of multipartite Bell inequalities is introduced basing on local projective measurements conducted by $N-k$ parties and applying a $k$-party Bell inequality on the remaining parties. Surprisingly, we find that most of the studied pure multipartite states involving e.g. cluster states, the Dicke states, and the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states can violate our inequalities with only the use of two efficient detectors, whereas the remaining detectors may have arbitrary small efficiencies. We believe that our inequalities are useful in Bell experiments and device-independent applications if only a small number of highly efficient detectors are in our disposal.