Locally inaccessible hidden quantum correlations

We prove, modulo a conjecture on quantum steering ellipsoids being true, the existence of the phenomenon of locally inaccessible hidden quantum correlations, that is, the existence of two-particle states whose hidden quantum correlations cannot be revealed by local filters implemented exclusively on one side of the experiment but that can still be revealed when both parties cooperate in applying judiciously chosen local filters. The quantum correlations considered here are the violation of the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality for Bell nonlocality and the violation of the 𝐹3 inequality for Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen steering. Specifically, we provide a necessary criterion for guaranteeing the presence of such phenomena for arbitrary two-qubit states. This criterion in turn relies on the conjecture that the maximal violations of CHSH inequality and 𝐹3 inequality are both upper bounded by functions that depend on the magnitude of the quantum steering ellipsoid center. This latter conjecture, although currently lacking an analytical proof, is supported by numerical results. We use this necessary criterion to explicitly show examples of two-qubit states with locally inaccessible hidden quantum correlations and furthermore two-qubit states with locally inaccessible maximal hidden quantum correlations.