DOI: 10.22331/q-2026-09-21-2214 ISSN: 2521-327X

Non-stabilizerness and violations of CHSH inequalities

Stefano Cusumano, Lorenzo Campos Venuti, Simone Cepollaro, Immacolata De Simone, Gianluca Esposito, Daniele Iannotti, Barbara Jasser, Jovan Odavić, Michele Viscardi, Alioscia Hamma

We study quantitatively the interplay between entanglement and non-stabilizer resources in violating the CHSH inequalities. We show that, while non-stabilizer resources are necessary, they must have a specific structure, namely they need to be both asymmetric and (surprisingly) local . We employ stabilizer entropy (SE) to quantify the non-stabilizer resources involved and the probability of violation given the resources. We show how spectral quantities related to the flatness of entanglement spectrum and its relationship with non-local SE affect the CHSH inequality. Finally, we utilize these results – together with tools from representation theory – to construct a systematic way of building ensembles of states with higher probability of violation.