Abstract
The correlations between local measurement results are characteristic for multi-partite quantum systems. Under the condition of local realism, which assumes that properties of physical systems exist independent of being measured, and that space-like separated actions on the system cannot influence each other, these correlations are constrained by Bell-inequalities. Quantum mechanics predicts correlations which are not explainable under these two assumptions. The resulting violation of Bell inequalities was originally studied for pairs of entangled particles1. Meanwhile these ideas were extended to three- and more partite quantum states in particular with respect to the different kinds of multi-particle entanglement and their implications on the obtainable correlations2. Here we present a method to construct characteristic Bell inequalities for particular four-qubit states. These inequalities are a versatile tool, not only to provide evidence for non-locality, but also for the characterization of the states, with respect to detection of genuine multi-partite entanglement and to state discrimination.
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