Hardy’s non-locality in four-qubit state
Abstract
Hardy’s non-locality provides a proof of the incompatibility between quantum mechanics and local realism without using Bell inequalities. While this argument has been extensively studied for two- and three-qubit systems, a detailed analysis of the four-qubit case is still lacking. In this work, we investigate Hardy’s non-locality for a four-qubit system within the standard two-setting framework. We explicitly construct the entangled state satisfying the Hardy conditions and determine the measurement settings that maximize the success probability. • We present an explicit analytical construction of a four-qubit Hardy state together with the corresponding projective measurement settings. • The maximum Hardy success probability for four qubits is found to be 0.143, exceeding the values obtained in the two- and three-qubit cases. • The resulting state is non-maximally entangled and exhibits genuine multipartite quantum correlations.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Quantum Information and Cryptography
Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Results in Physics
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Volume
- 82
- Pages
- 108594–108594
- Publication date
- 3 February 2026
- Language
- EN