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arxiv: 0911.0770 · v3 · pith:2Q3KEZ52new · submitted 2009-11-04 · 🪐 quant-ph

Extreme nonlocality with one photon

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keywords nonlocalitybellinequalityparticleproofsinglesystemsfield
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Quantum nonlocality is typically assigned to systems of two or more well separated particles, but nonlocality can also exist in systems consisting of just a single particle, when one considers the subsystems to be distant spatial field modes. Single particle nonlocality has been confirmed experimentally via a bipartite Bell inequality. In this paper, we introduce an N-party Hardy-like proof of impossibility of local elements of reality and a Bell inequality for local realistic theories for a single particle superposed symmetrical over N spatial field modes (i.e. a N qubit W state). We show that, in the limit of large N, the Hardy-like proof effectively becomes an all-versus nothing (or GHZ-like) proof, and the quantum-classical gap of the Bell inequality tends to be same of the one in a three-particle GHZ experiment. We detail how to test the nonlocality in realistic systems.

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