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Beyond Qubits: High-Dimensional Bell Inequalities for Multidimensional Quantum Systems

Classical Bell tests were strictly confined to simple two-level qubit pairs; the Collins-Gisin-Linden-Massar-Popescu (CGLMP) inequality extends quantum nonlocality verification to arbitrarily high-dimensional entangled states.

Author
Daniel Collins et al.
Published
2002
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Last updated
September 2026
Beyond Qubits: High-Dimensional Bell Inequalities for Multidimensional Quantum Systems

When physicists first probed quantum entanglement, they tested systems of binary spin-half particles or polarized photons. These two-dimensional qubit systems demonstrated that nature violates local realism, but left open how entanglement behaves across rich, high-dimensional quantum states.

Formulating Bell inequalities for high-dimensional systems (qudits) proved notoriously elusive because the geometric polytope of classical correlations explodes in complexity as the number of available quantum states increases.

Collins, Gisin, Linden, Massar, and Popescu constructed a tight, elegant family of Bell inequalities tailored for bipartite systems of arbitrary dimension d. Their inequality shows that high-dimensional entanglement is more resistant to environmental noise and exhibits stronger resistance to classical simulation than simple two-level states.

High-dimensional Bell inequalities provide the foundational benchmark for modern quantum key distribution protocols with ultra-high channel capacities, orbital angular momentum photon encoding, and device-independent verification of complex multi-level quantum memories.

Reference

Collins, D., Gisin, N., Linden, N., Massar, S., & Popescu, S. (2002). Bell Inequalities for Arbitrarily High-Dimensional Systems. Physical Review Letters, 88(4).

Title

Bell Inequalities for Arbitrarily High-Dimensional Systems

Abstract

We develop a novel approach to Bell inequalities based on a constraint that the correlations exhibited by local variable theories must satisfy. This is used to construct a family of Bell inequalities for bipartite quantum systems of arbitrarily high dimensionality which are strongly resistant to noise. In particular, our work gives an analytic description of previous numerical results and generalizes them to arbitrarily high dimensionality.

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