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Title: Faithful test of nonlocal realism with entangled coherent states

Journal Article · · Physical Review. A
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Center for Macroscopic Quantum Control and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747 (Korea, Republic of)
  2. School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN (United Kingdom)

We investigate the violation of Leggett's inequality for nonlocal realism using entangled coherent states and various types of local measurements. We prove mathematically the relation between the violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt form of Bell's inequality and Leggett's one when tested by the same resources. For Leggett inequalities, we generalize the nonlocal realistic bound to systems in Hilbert spaces larger than bidimensional ones and introduce an optimization technique that allows one to achieve larger degrees of violation by adjusting the local measurement settings. Our work describes the steps that should be performed to produce a self-consistent generalization of Leggett's original arguments to continuous-variable states.

OSTI ID:
21537108
Journal Information:
Physical Review. A, Vol. 83, Issue 2; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.022102; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; ISSN 1050-2947
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English