Impact of High-Brightness Entangled Photon Pairs on CHSH Inequality Experiment

TL;DR

This study models how increasing brightness of entangled photon pairs affects CHSH inequality violation, emphasizing the importance of optimizing photon source brightness for reliable quantum tests in high-loss environments.

Contribution

The paper introduces a mathematical model predicting the $(S-2)/ riangle S$ value based on photon source brightness and provides experimental validation of this model.

Findings

Higher photon brightness reduces CHSH value due to multi-photon effects.

Optimal brightness improves the reliability of CHSH inequality violation detection.

Experimental data confirms the model's predictions at specific photon mean and loss conditions.

Abstract

Verifying the violation of Bell's inequality is one of the most representative methods to demonstrate that entangled photon pairs prepared in a quantum optics-based system exhibit quantum properties. While experiments on Bell inequality violations have been theoretically well-established and extensively conducted to implement various quantum information technologies in laboratory settings, mathematical modeling for accurately predicting the distribution of high-intensity entangled photon pairs in high-loss environments remains an issue that requires further research. As the brightness of the entangled photon pairs increases, the influence of multi-photon effects becomes more significant, leading to a decrease in the CHSH value $S$ and also a reduction in the standard deviation of the CHSH value $\Delta S$. Therefore, a new analysis of the $(S-2)/\Delta S$ value is required to more precisely confirm the degree of CHSH inequality violation including the reliability of $S$. In this paper, we propose a mathematical model to predict the $(S-2)/\Delta S$ value as a function of the brightness of the entangled photon pair source, and we also suggest the need to optimize the brightness of this source. Additionally, we provide experimental evidence supporting this model. The experiment confirms that when the mean photon number is $\mu=0.026$ in an entanglement distribution setup with a total loss of $-19.03$ dB, the CHSH value drops to 2.69, while the $(S-2)/\Delta S$ value increases to 60.95.