
AbstractBell’s theorem plays a crucial role in quantum information processing and thus several experimental investigations of Bell inequalities violations have been carried out over the years. Despite their fundamental relevance, however, previous experiments did not consider an ingredient of relevance for quantum networks: the fact that correlations between distant parties are mediated by several, typically independent sources. Here, using a photonic setup, we investigate a quantum network consisting of three spatially separated nodes whose correlations are mediated by two distinct sources. This scenario allows for the emergence of the so-called non-bilocal correlations, incompatible with any local model involving two independent hidden variables. We experimentally witness the emergence of this kind of quantum correlations by violating a Bell-like inequality under the fair-sampling assumption. Our results provide a proof-of-principle experiment of generalizations of Bell’s theorem for networks, which could represent a potential resource for quantum communication protocols.
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Quantum Nonlocality, Quantum information, Science, FOS: Political science, Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Interpretations, Hidden variable theory, Quantum correlation, FOS: Law, 530, Quantum mechanics, Article, Quantum, Quantum Interpretations, Quantum discord, Quantum entanglement, Theoretical computer science, Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing and Simulation, Quantum Error Correction, Political science, Fault-tolerant Quantum Computation, Bell’s theorem, Bell Inequality, Local hidden variable theory, Physics, Q, 500, Computer science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Quantum Information and Computation, Quantum networks, Quantum network, Quantum state, Physics and Astronomy, Bell's theorem, Causality (physics), Quantum nonlocality, Open quantum system, Physical Sciences, Computer Science, Relevance (law), Statistical physics, Chemistry (all); Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all); Physics and Astronomy (all), Bell test experiments, Theoretical physics, Law
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