Bell-CHSH Violation for a Massless Majorana Field in a Double Cone from Modular Localization

Abstract:We investigate Bell-CHSH correlations for a chiral massless Majorana field localized in a double cone. The conformal modular flow of the associated light-ray interval is converted into translations by a rapidity-like coordinate, and the one-particle scalar product is derived in modular momentum space. Particular attention is paid to the fact that this scalar product carries a Fermi-Dirac weight. Requiring the modular conjugation to be antiunitary with respect to that weighted scalar product fixes the Fourier-space realization of the modular objects. The resulting Tomita-Takesaki operator and its adjoint generate Alice and twisted-dual Bob directions for which all four crossed CAR orthogonality relations follow automatically from modular localization. The Bell problem then reduces to a simple one-function functional. For a Gaussian modular-momentum profile $h_\sigma(k)=\exp[-k^2/(2\sigma^2)]$ the Bell parameter is larger than the classical bound for a broad range of widths and approaches the Tsirelson value analytically, \[ \lim_{\sigma\to 0^+}{\it B}(\sigma)=2\sqrt2 \] Thus near-maximal Bell violation is obtained from an explicit sequence of smooth rapidly decreasing profiles concentrated around zero modular momentum, corresponding to the modular spectral value $\lambda=1$.

arXiv:2608.23753 [hep-th]

(or arXiv:2608.23753v1 [hep-th] for this version)

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