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Catalytic Activation of Bell Nonlocality

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: The correlations of certain entangled states can be perfectly simulated classically via a local model. Hence such states are termed Bell local, as they cannot lead to Bell inequality violation. Here, we show that Bell nonlocality can nevertheless be activated for certain Bell-local states via a catalytic process. Specifically, we present a protocol where a Bell-local state, combined with a catalyst, is transformed into a Bell-nonlocal state while the catalyst is returned exactly in its initial state. Importantly, this transformation is deterministic and based only on local operations. Moreover, this procedure is possible even when the state of the catalyst is itself Bell local, demonstrating a new form of superactivation of Bell nonlocality, as well as an interesting form of quantum catalysis. On the technical level, our main tool is a formal connection between catalytic activation and many-copy activation.

Source: Physical Review Letters

DOI: 10.1103/5dth-7zm8

Authors: Jessica Bavaresco, Nicolas Brunner, Antoine Girardin, Patryk Lipka-Bartosik, Pavel Sekatski