Generalising the Horodecki criterion to nonprojective qubit measurements

Abstract

The Horodecki criterion provides a necessary and sufficient condition for a two-qubit state to be able to manifest Bell nonlocality via violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality. It requires, however, the assumption that suitable projective measurements can be made on each qubit, and is not sufficient for scenarios in which noisy or weak measurements are either desirable or unavoidable. By characterising general two-valued qubit observables in terms of strength, bias, and directional parameters, we address such scenarios by providing generalised necessary and sufficient conditions for noisy qubit measurements having fixed strengths and relative angles for each observer. In particular, we find the achievable maximal values of the CHSH parameter for unbiased measurements on arbitrary states, and, alternatively, for arbitrary measurements on states with maximally-mixed marginals, and determine the optimal angles in some cases. We also give a strong upper bound for the CHSH parameter in the general case, and show that for certain ranges of measurement strengths it is only possible to violate the CHSH inequality via biased measurements.