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Detection-Loophole-Free Test of Quantum Nonlocality, and Applications

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Christensen, B. G., McCusker, K. T., Altepeter, J. B., Calkins, B., Gerrits, T., Lita, A. E., Miller, A., Shalm, L. K. +6 more·2013·Physical Review Letters

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We present a source of entangled photons that violates a Bell inequality free of the "fair-sampling" assumption, by over 7 standard deviations. This violation is the first reported experiment with photons to close the detection loophole, and we demonstrate enough "efficiency" overhead to eventually perform a fully loophole-free test of local realism. The entanglement quality is verified by maximally violating additional Bell tests, testing the upper limit of quantum correlations. Finally, we use the source to generate "device-independent" private quantum random numbers at rates over 4 orders of magnitude beyond previous experiments.

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  • As the CHSH inequality is minimally violated in an optically realised system, the randomness output is also very small (with min-entropy of Hmin=7.2×10^-5 in each run), and the randomness generation rate is 0.4 bits per s.

    “As the CHSH inequality is minimally violated in an optically realised system, 64,65 the randomness output is also very small (with min-entropy of H min =7.2 × 10 -5 in each run), and the randomness generation rate is 0.4 bits per s.”

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    The main text (p. 5) reports a small CH violation, min-entropy of 7.2×10^-5, and a randomness generation rate of 0.4 bits/s. But it attributes the randomness result to a CH violation, not a minimally violated CHSH inequality; on p. 4, it reports a CHSH violation close to the quantum maximum. The paper describes the min-entropy as per bit of output data (p. 4), rather than per run. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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Christensen, B. G., McCusker, K. T., Altepeter, J. B., Calkins, B., Gerrits, T., Lita, A. E., Miller, A., Shalm, L. K., Zhang, Y., Nam, S. W., Brunner, N., Lim, C. C. W., Gisin, N., & Kwiat, P. G.
Affiliations
  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology (US)
  • University of Geneva (CH)
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Published
2013-09-26
Volume
111
Issue
13
Pages
130406-130406
ISSN
  • 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
  • 1079-7114
OpenAlex
W2006166792
Cited by
477
References
42
Citations by year
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FWCI
62.56
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Physical Review Letters (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Science
Funders
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-11-CHRI-0007)
  • Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/J007838/1)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Statistical and Nonlinear Physics › Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
Keywords
quantum nonlocality, Bell inequality violation, detection loophole, fair sampling assumption, entangled photon sources, local realism, quantum correlations

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