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Graph-theoretic strengths of contextuality

Quantum Physics 2017-03-29 v3

Abstract

Cabello-Severini-Winter and Abramsky-Hardy (building on the framework of Abramsky-Brandenburger) both provide classes of Bell and contextuality inequalities for very general experimental scenarios using vastly different mathematical techniques. We review both approaches, carefully detail the links between them, and give simple, graph-theoretic methods for finding inequality-free proofs of nonlocality and contextuality and for finding states exhibiting strong nonlocality and/or contextuality. Finally, we apply these methods to concrete examples in stabilizer quantum mechanics relevant to understanding contextuality as a resource in quantum computation.

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@article{arxiv.1512.05048,
  title  = {Graph-theoretic strengths of contextuality},
  author = {Nadish de Silva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.05048},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

13 pages; significantly rewritten

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