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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 010401 (2007) [4 pages]

Bounding the Set of Quantum Correlations

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Miguel Navascués*, Stefano Pironio, and Antonio Acín
ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain

Received 18 July 2006; published 4 January 2007

We introduce a hierarchy of conditions necessarily satisfied by any distribution Pαβ representing the probabilities for two separate observers to obtain outcomes α and β when making local measurements on a shared quantum state. Each condition in this hierarchy is formulated as a semidefinite program. Among other applications, our approach can be used to obtain upper bounds on the quantum violation of an arbitrary Bell inequality. It yields, for instance, tight bounds for the violations of the Collins et al. inequalities.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.010401
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.010401
PACS:
03.65.Ud, 03.67.−a

*Electronic address: Miguel.Navascues@icfo.es

Electronic address: Stefano.Pironio@icfo.es

Electronic address: Antonio.Acin@icfo.es