The CHSH Game - an insight into Bell's Inequality

The CHSH Game
In 1935, when Einstein authored his EPR Paradox paper in conjunction with Podolsky and Rosen (hence the appellation EPR) he was essentially stating that Quantum Entanglement -Spooky action at a distance which he was later to call it- did not exist.

Einstein postulated that there was nothing ‘spooky’ going on and that it was just like saying if you separated a pair of boots and revealed that the boot in front of you was left, then you immediately knew that the distant one was a right boot! Essentially, Einstein said that there was a ‘Hidden Variable’ within every particle that science had just not discovered at that time. The science community happily accepted Einstein’s explanation as it was nowhere near understanding this perplexing phenomenon.

But Einstein was wrong!

It took 30 years and a Northern Irish professor -John Bell- to, mathematically, prove Einstein wrong. His proof has come to be known as ‘Bell’s Inequality’ and the CHSH Game is an intuitive way to understand the inequality.

The CHSH game looks like a magic trick for which there is no explanation yet it works every time!

In this presentation, Eamonn Darcy the Founder/Operator of QUECWA -The Quantum Education Centre of Western Australia provides a description of the CHSH game -a hypothetical Bell test experiment. The players of this game can use either classical strategies (corresponding to local hidden variable theories) or quantum strategies, which involve measurements of a shared entangled bit.

No matter what strategy you come up with, classically, the chances of you winning the game can never be greater than 75% whereas exploiting the enigmatic, spooky force of quantum entanglement you will regularly win 85% of the time.
Come and play the CHSH game – 7:00pm Australian Eastern Standard Time: Thursday 10th December 2020
Quantum Computing Australia -Meet Up Group and/or Quantumapalooza.com

EAMONN DARCY