Experimental high-dimensional multi-qubit Bell non-locality on a superconducting quantum processor

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates high-dimensional and many-body Bell non-locality in a superconducting quantum processor, revealing collective quantum correlations beyond traditional bounds.

Contribution

It reports the first observation of high-dimensional Bell violations involving up to 64-dimensional systems on a superconducting platform.

Findings

Bell violation observed in 64-dimensional systems encoded in twelve qubits

Nonlocal correlations exceed quantum bounds for 2-dimensional systems up to size 32

Violation is genuinely collective, with all qubits contributing

Abstract

Combining recent advances in superconducting quantum hardware, we explore quantum correlations in a previously inaccessible regime by observing \emph{simultaneously} high-dimensional and many-body Bell non-locality. We report a high-confidence Bell violation in the correlations between two $d=64$-dimensional systems encoded in twelve qubits. For system sizes up to $d=32$, the strength of the observed nonlocal correlations exceeds the quantum upper bound for $d=2$ systems, providing direct evidence of high-dimensional nonlocality. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the observed violation is genuinely collective: all qubits contribute to the nonlocal correlations, while most pairwise correlations across the bipartition remain Bell-local. Our work illustrates how present-day quantum processors enable the exploration of fundamental predictions of quantum mechanics in previously inaccessible regimes and, in turn, how fundamental quantum effects can be used to benchmark their performance.