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Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 230402 (2001) [4 pages]

Multipartite Bound Entangled States that Violate Bell’s Inequality

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W. Dür
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
and Sektion Physik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Theresienstrasse 37, D-80333 München, Germany

Received 9 July 2001; published 13 November 2001

We study the relation between distillability of multipartite states and violation of Bell’s inequality. We prove that there exist multipartite bound entangled states (i.e., nonseparable, nondistillable states) that violate a multipartite Bell inequality. This implies that (i) violation of Bell’s inequality is not a sufficient condition for distillability and (ii) some bound entangled states cannot be described by a local hidden variable model.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.230402
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.230402
PACS:
03.65.Ud, 03.67.-a