Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger theorem cannot be extended to a Bell state
Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger theorem cannot be extended to a Bell state
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DOI:
10.1103/physreva.68.052106
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发表时间:
2003-11
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Zeqian Chen
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作者:
Zeqian Chen
The Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) theorem exhibits an "all versus nothing" contradiction between Ernstein, Podelsky, and Rosen's local realism and quantum mechanics by using a maximally entangled state of three qubits. However, it is shown in this paper that no extension of GHZ's proof is possible for any entangled state of two qubits, including Bell states. The proof is obtained by showing the fact that there are no more than three distinct elements (except for a different sign) in a set of mutually commuting nonlocal spin observables of two qubits. This also leads to a generic setup of the Kochen-Specker theorem for the two-qubit system.