Experimental violation of a cluster state bell inequality.
Cluster states are a new type of multiqubit entangled states with entanglement properties exceptionally well suited for quantum computation. In the present work, we experimentally demonstrate that correlations in a four-qubit linear cluster state cannot be described by local realism. This exploration is based on a recently derived Bell-type inequality [V. Scarani et al., Phys. Rev. A 71, 042325 (2005)] which is tailored, by using a combination of three- and four-particle correlations, to be maximally violated by cluster states but not violated at all by GHZ states. We observe a cluster-state Bell parameter of 2.59+/-0.08, which is more than 7sigma larger than the threshold of 2 imposed by local realism.
Walther
Philip
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Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Wien, Boltzmanngasse 5, A-1090 Wien, Austria.
Aspelmeyer
Markus
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Resch
Kevin J
KJ
Zeilinger
Anton
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