Resilience of realism-based nonlocality to local disturbance

Abstract

Employing a procedure called monitoring---via a completely positive trace-preserving map that is able to interpolate between weak and projective measurements---we investigate the resilience of the recently proposed realism-based nonlocality to local and bilocal weak measurements. This analysis indicates realism-based nonlocality as the most ubiquitous and persistent form of quantumness within a wide class of quantum-correlation quantifiers. In particular, we show that the set of states possessing this type of quantumness forms a strict superset of symmetrically discordant states and, therefore, of discordant, entangled, steerable, and Bell-nonlocal states. Moreover, we find that, under monitoring, realism-based nonlocality is not susceptible to sudden death.