Optimal GHZ extraction from MABK violations
Abstract
We determine the least Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) extractability compatible with a Mermin-Ardehali-Belinskii-Klyshko (MABK) Bell score for every n≥3. Extractability is the largest squared overlap with a GHZ state obtainable by separate local quantum channels. Between the biseparable bound and the quantum maximum, its exact minimum is the affine interpolation from one half to one. This proves the bound conjectured for six or more parties. The result holds for arbitrary binary measurements and density operators on tensor products of finite- or infinite-dimensional local spaces. We also determine the exact minimum for qubits, which is strictly higher at every interior score. One qutrit and qubits elsewhere attain the unrestricted minimum with measurements fixed as the score varies and, at interior scores, realize the smallest product of ranks of the local reduced states among states attaining that minimum. For n≥4, the attaining state with this rank product is unique at each interior score, up to local isometries and party permutations. On one qutrit and qubits elsewhere, for n≥4 and scores a fixed fraction away from both endpoints, a sufficiently small excess of extractability above the minimum controls trace-norm distance to the attaining state of the same score, up to local unitaries. The dependence is of square-root order, with optimal exponent and explicit constants depending only on that fraction, uniformly in n. Equality and stability concern actual extractability; identical Bell statistics can accompany different extractabilities.
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BibTeX
@misc{kreindel2026optimal,
title = {{Optimal GHZ extraction from MABK violations}},
author = {Avraham Kreindel and Aryeh Lev Zabokritskiy},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.08516},
eprint = {2610.08516},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08516},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Optimal GHZ extraction from MABK violations
AU - Avraham Kreindel
AU - Aryeh Lev Zabokritskiy
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/28
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.08516
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08516
AB - We determine the least Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) extractability compatible with a Mermin-Ardehali-Belinskii-Klyshko (MABK) Bell score for every n≥3. Extractability is the largest squared overlap with a GHZ state obtainable by separate local quantum channels. Between the biseparable bound and the quantum maximum, its exact minimum is the affine interpolation from one half to one. This proves the bound conjectured for six or more parties. The result holds for arbitrary binary measurements and density operators on tensor products of finite- or infinite-dimensional local spaces. We also determine the exact minimum for qubits, which is strictly higher at every interior score. One qutrit and qubits elsewhere attain the unrestricted minimum with measurements fixed as the score varies and, at interior scores, realize the smallest product of ranks of the local reduced states among states attaining that minimum. For n≥4, the attaining state with this rank product is unique at each interior score, up to local isometries and party permutations. On one qutrit and qubits elsewhere, for n≥4 and scores a fixed fraction away from both endpoints, a sufficiently small excess of extractability above the minimum controls trace-norm distance to the attaining state of the same score, up to local unitaries. The dependence is of square-root order, with optimal exponent and explicit constants depending only on that fraction, uniformly in n. Equality and stability concern actual extractability; identical Bell statistics can accompany different extractabilities.
ER -