Bell–Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt Behavior Under Quantum Loss and Decoherence

Abstract

We present a detailed analysis of the effect of quantum loss and decoherence in the Bell-CHSH scenario. Adopting a device-independent approach, we study the change in the bipartite conditional probability distribution, i.e., the behavior of the realized nonlocal box pair when the elements of the entangled qubit pair subjected to independent noisy quantum channels modeled by completely positive maps. As the verification of Bell inequalities is crucial in device-independent quantum cryptography, our considerations are instructive from the perspective of quantum realizations of nonlocal box pairs. We find that the impact of quantum channels cannot be described by an equivalent classical noise channel.