Tight detection efficiency bounds of Bell tests in no-signaling theories

No-signaling theories, which can contain nonlocal correlations stronger than quantum correlations but limited by the no-signaling condition, have deepened our understanding of the quantum theory. In practice, Bell tests are powerful tools to certify nonlocality, but their effectiveness is limited by the detector efficiency. In this work, we provide almost tight detection efficiency bounds for showing the nonlocality of no-signaling theories, by introducing a general class of Bell inequalities. In particular, we provide a tight bound for the bipartite case and an asymptotic tight bound for the multipartite case. The tightness of these bounds shows that they well characterize the structure of no-signaling theories. The bounds also imply that the detector efficiency requirement can be made arbitrarily low in both bipartite and multipartite cases by increasing the number of measurement settings. Furthermore, our work sheds light on the detector efficiency requirement for showing the nonlocality of the quantum theory.

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