Minimal scenario facet Bell inequalities for multi-qubit states

TL;DR

This paper introduces a minimal facet Bell inequality scenario for multi-qubit states, demonstrating its effectiveness in detecting nonlocality across various states, including GHZ and W states, with advantages over existing inequalities.

Contribution

The paper identifies a unique minimal Bell inequality scenario for multipartite states and proves its broad applicability and superiority in detecting nonlocality.

Findings

The inequality is violated by all generalized GHZ states.

It is also violated by any entangled three-qubit pure state.

More effective than Mermin inequality for noisy W states.

Abstract

Facet inequalities play an important role in detecting the nonlocality of a quantum state. The number of such inequalities depends on the Bell test scenario. With the increase in the number of parties, measurement outcomes, or/and the number of measurement settings, there are more nontrivial facet inequalities. For several Bell scenarios, by involving two dichotomic measurement settings for two parties and one dichotomic measurement by other parties, we show that the local polytope has only one nontrivial facet. For three parties, we have three variants of this inequality, depending upon which party is doing one dichotomic measurement. This measurement scenario for a multipartite state may be considered as the minimal scenario involving multipartite correlations that can detect nonlocality. We show that this inequality is violated by all generalized GHZ states. Being the only facet Bell inequality, this inequality is also violated by any entangled three-qubit pure state. We also show that for noisy W states, our inequality is more effective than the well-known Mermin inequality.