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From breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the Bell-inequality tetrahedron

Francesco Giacosa

quant-pharXiv:2609.14436

Abstract

A simple pedagogical discussion and visualization of certain Bell inequalities is presented with the help of a system involving two twins, originally discussed in 2605.03104. These twins answer identically when the same `question' is posed, here exemplified with: Did you like breakfast/lunch/dinner? In analogy, for two entangled particles at distant locations, the `twin-like' quantum state is such that the same outcome for the same measurement (i.e. spin direction) is obtained. In the space (X,Y,Z) of mixed moments (i.e. X refers to breakfast-lunch correlation, being 1 for same answers and -1 for opposite ones), the space of Bell local models is contained in a tetrahedron, while the quantum space is bound by an elliptope that embeds the tetrahedron. The whole no-signalling region in the (X,Y,Z) space is the cube [-1,1]3. The twin scenario applies e.g. to the decay of the Higgs into fermions.

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