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Certifying long-range quantum correlations through routed Bell tests
Edwin Peter Lobo, Jef Pauwels, Stefano Pironio
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Losses in the transmission channel, which increase with distance, pose a major obstacle to photonics demonstrations of quantum nonlocality and its applications. Recently, Chaturvedi, Viola, and Pawlowski (CVP) [arXiv:2211.14231] introduced a variation of standard Bell experiments with the goal of extending the range over which quantum nonlocality can be demonstrated. In these experiments, which we call 'routed Bell experiments', Bob can route his quantum particle along two possible paths and measure it at two distinct locations - one near and another far from the source. The idea is that a Bell violation in the short-path should weaken the conditions required to detect nonlocal correlations in the long-path. Indeed, CVP showed that there are quantum correlations in routed Bell experiments such that the outcomes of the remote device cannot be classically predetermined, even when its detection efficiency is arbitrarily low. In this paper, we show that the correlations considered by CVP, though they cannot be classically predetermined, do not require the transmission of quantum systems to the remote device. This leads us to define the concept of 'short-range' and 'long-range' quantum correlations in routed Bell experiments. We show that these correlations can be characterized through standard semidefinite programming hierarchies for non-commutative polynomial optimization. We then explore the conditions under which short-range quantum correlations can be ruled out. We point out that there exist fundamental lower-bounds on the critical detection efficiency of the distant device, implying that routed Bell experiments cannot demonstrate long-range quantum nonlocality at arbitrarily large distances. However, we do find that routed Bell experiments allow for reducing the detection efficiency threshold. The improvements, though, are significantly smaller than those suggested by CVP's analysis.
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