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Contextuality within quantum mechanics manifested in subensemble mean values

Quantum Physics 2015-05-14 v1

Abstract

For spin-1/2 particles, using a suitable Mach-Zehnder-type setup with a spin-flipper, we argue that it is a direct consequence of the quantum mechanical treatment that an experimentally verifiable \textit{subensemble} mean of the measured values of an arbitrarily chosen spin variable exhibits dependence on the choice of a comeasurable `path' observable. This, in turn, enables inferring path-spin contextuality at the level of individual measured values of spin that are predetermined using a relevant hidden-variable model applied to our setup.

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@article{arxiv.0912.3570,
  title  = {Contextuality within quantum mechanics manifested in subensemble mean values},
  author = {Alok Kumar Pan and Dipankar Home},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.3570},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 1 figure

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