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Many achievements have been made since quantum nonlocality without entanglement was found. A natural question is how many orthogonal product states (OPSs) are needed at least to form a nonlocal set in a given quantum system. In this paper, we achieve some interesting results about nonlocal sets with the less amount of OPSs. Firstly, we construct new nonlocal sets of OPSs with only 6 and 9 members in the \(\mathbb {C}^{3} \otimes \mathbb {C}^{3} \otimes \mathbb {C}^{3}\) and \(\mathbb {C}^{4} \otimes \mathbb {C}^{4} \otimes \mathbb {C}^{4}\) quantum systems, respectively. Secondly, we give a general construction of nonlocal set of OPSs with only \(3(d-1)\) members in \(\mathbb {C}^{d}\otimes \mathbb {C}^{d}\otimes \mathbb {C}^{d}\) quantum system for \(d\ge 3\). Finally, we compare our work with existing results and make a series of generalizations. The comparison result shows that the nonlocal sets of OPSs constructed by us have the least number of elements in their corresponding quantum systems.
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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 62171264, 62071015) and Shandong Provincial Natural Science Foundation (Grant No. ZR2019MF023).
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Zhu, YY., Jiang, DH., Liang, XQ. et al. Nonlocal sets of orthogonal product states with the less amount of elements in tripartite quantum systems. Quantum Inf Process 21, 252 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-022-03601-x
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