Abstract
Local unitary transforms cannot affect the quantum correlations between two systems sharing an entangled state although they do influence the outcomes of local measurements. By considering local squeezing operations we introduce an extended family of observables allowing violation of the CHSH Bell inequality for two-mode Gaussian systems. We show that local squeezing can enable or enhance the identification of non-local two-mode states. In particular, we show that local squeezing followed by photons/no-photons discrimination can suffice to reveal non-locality in a broad ensemble of pure and mixed two-mode Gaussian states.