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Contextuality and nonlocality in 'no signaling' theories

Quantum Physics 2015-05-13 v2

Abstract

We define a family of 'no signaling' bipartite boxes with arbitrary inputs and binary outputs, and with a range of marginal probabilities. The defining correlations are motivated by the Klyachko version of the Kochen-Specker theorem, so we call these boxes Kochen-Specker-Klyachko boxes or, briefly, KS-boxes. The marginals cover a variety of cases, from those that can be simulated classically to the superquantum correlations that saturate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality, when the KS-box is a generalized PR-box (hence a vertex of the `no signaling' polytope). We show that for certain marginal probabilities a KS-box is classical with respect to nonlocality as measured by the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt correlation, i.e., no better than shared randomness as a resource in simulating a PR-box, even though such KS-boxes cannot be perfectly simulated by classical or quantum resources for all inputs. We comment on the significance of these results for contextuality and nonlocality in 'no signaling' theories.

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@article{arxiv.0903.1462,
  title  = {Contextuality and nonlocality in 'no signaling' theories},
  author = {Jeffrey Bub and Allen Stairs},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.1462},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

22 pages. Changes to Introduction and final Commentary section. Added two tables, one to Section 5, and some new references