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For spin-projective measurements on a two-qubit state, let ${\lambda }_1\ge {\lambda }_2\ge {\lambda }_3$ be the eigenvalues of $T^{T}T$, where $T$ is its Pauli correlation tensor. Bob's sum and difference of unit axes are orthogonal and have lengths $2\cos \varphi$ and $2\sin \varphi$. Maximizing Alice's two axes aligns them with the corresponding images under $T$. Maximizing $\varphi$ then gives $2\sqrt{\Vert T\mathbf{u}{\Vert }^2+\Vert T\mathbf{v}{\Vert }^2}$ for orthonormal $\mathbf{u},\mathbf{v}$. The maximum of this quadratic-form sum is ${\lambda }_1+{\lambda }_2$, by diagonalizing $T^{T}T$ and selecting its top two eigenvectors. Thus the displayed expression is both an upper bound and attainable. The same maximum applies to the form with the sum of two absolute values, since local outcome signs can select their positive branches.

This is the dephased Bell-state mixture with coherence parameter $2x$. The Pauli correlation tensor isso spin measurements along unit vectors have $E(\mathbf{a},\mathbf{b})={\mathbf{a}}^{T}T\mathbf{b}$. ChooseThen $E(a,b)-E(a,b^{\prime })=2/\sqrt{1+4x^2}$ and $E(a^{\prime },b)+E(a^{\prime },b^{\prime })=8x^2/\sqrt{1+4x^2}$. The CHSH inequality expression is thereforeThese axes also attain the CHSH optimum from the correlation tensor, since the two largest eigenvalues of $T^{T}T$ are $1$ and $4x^2$. At $x=1/2$ the value is $2\sqrt{2}$; at $x=0$ the explicit LHV model in part (c) applies. Thus exactly $0<x\le 1/2$ has correlations incompatible with a local hidden-variable description.

Arbitrarily small positive coherence suffices in this particular one-parameter family, with optimally chosen axes; the violation above two tends to zero quadratically as $x\to 0$. This does not imply that every entangled mixed state violates a CHSH inequality.