Violation of Bell's Inequality Using Continuous Variable Measurements

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2018

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Thearle, Oliver
Janousek, Jiri
Armstrong, Seiji
Hosseini, Sara
Schünemann, Melaine
Assad, Syed
Symul, Thomas
James, Matthew
Huntington, Elanor
Ralph, Timothy Cameron

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American Physical Society

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A Bell inequality is a fundamental test to rule out local hidden variable model descriptions of correlations between two physically separated systems. There have been a number of experiments in which a Bell inequality has been violated using discrete-variable systems. We demonstrate a violation of Bell’s inequality using continuous variable quadrature measurements. By creating a four-mode entangled state with homodyne detection, we recorded a clear violation with a Bell value of B=2.31±0.02. This opens new possibilities for using continuous variable states for device independent quantum protocols.

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Physical Review Letters

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