2002/06/30 by Dennis Dieks · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreva.66.062104
5 pages, 1 figure; the argument has been made clearer in the revised version; 1 reference added
arxiv created 2002/09/12 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Quantum theory violates Bell's inequality, but not to the maximum extent that is logically possible. We derive inequalities (generalizations of Cirel'son's inequality) that quantify the upper bound of the violation, both for the standard formalism and the formalism of generalized observables (POVMs). These inequalities are quantum analogues of Bell inequalities, and they can be used to test the quantum version of locality. We discuss the nature of this kind of locality. We also go into the relation of our results to an argument by Popescu and Rohrlich (Found. Phys. 24, 379 (1994)) that there is no general connection between the existence of Cirel'son's bound and locality.