# Experimental Certification of Sustained Entanglement and Nonlocality after Sequential Measurements

## TL;DR

This paper demonstrates experimentally that entanglement and nonlocality can be preserved and repeatedly revealed through sequential unsharp measurements on one particle, challenging the notion that these resources are destroyed after a single measurement.

## Contribution

It introduces a method of performing sequential unsharp measurements that preserve entanglement and nonlocality, enabling repeated quantum correlations detection.

## Key findings

- Entanglement maintained after three sequential measurements.
- Violation of CHSH inequality at each measurement step.
- Potential for repeated resource extraction in quantum protocols.

## Abstract

Entanglement is a fundamental resource for quantum information science. However, bipartite entanglement is destroyed when one particle is observed via projective (sharp) measurements, as it is typically the case in most experiments. Here we experimentally show that, if instead of sharp measurements, one performs many sequential unsharp measurements on one particle which are suitably chosen depending on the previous outcomes, then entanglement is preserved and it is possible to reveal quantum correlations through measurements on the second particle at any step of the sequence. Specifically, we observe that pairs of photons entangled in polarization maintain their entanglement when one particle undergoes three sequential measurements, and each of these can be used to violate a CHSH inequality. This proof-of-principle experiment demonstrates the possibility of repeatedly harnessing two crucial resources, entanglement and Bell nonlocality, that, in most quantum protocols, are destroyed after a single measurement. The protocol we use, which in principle works for an unbounded sequence of measurements, can be useful for randomness extraction.