New Journal of Physics (Jan 2019)

Higher amounts of loophole-free Bell violation using a heralded entangled source

  • Shuai Zhao,
  • Wen-Fei Cao,
  • Yi-Zheng Zhen,
  • Changchen Chen,
  • Li Li,
  • Nai-Le Liu,
  • Feihu Xu,
  • Kai Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab4538
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 10
p. 103008

Abstract

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Loophole-free Bell non-locality test plays a central role in device-independent quantum information processing tasks, such as device-independent quantum random number generation (QRNG) and quantum key distribution (QKD). Inspired by the scheme of heralded spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) source proposed in (Śliwa C and Banaszek K 2003 Phys. Rev. A 67 030101), we present a loophole-free Bell test scheme that employs the heralded type of entangled photon pairs. Our proposal enables a much higher degree of Bell violation with realistic photonic devices over the one using the conventional SPDC source, thus allowing the implementation of device-independent QRNG and QKD with significant advantages. We anticipate that the scheme will enable variously subtle applications in device-independent quantum information processing tasks.

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