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Hypergraph Contextuality

Quantum Physics 2019-11-18 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Quantum contextuality is a source of quantum computational power and a theoretical delimiter between classical and quantum structures. It has been substantiated by numerous experiments and prompted generation of state independent contextual sets, that is, sets of quantum observables capable of revealing quantum contextuality for any quantum state of a given dimension. There are two major classes of state-independent contextual sets - the Kochen-Specker ones and the operator-based ones. In this paper, we present a third, hypergraph-based class of contextual sets. Hypergraph inequalities serve as a measure of contextuality. We limit ourselves to qutrits and obtain thousands of 3-dim contextual sets. The simplest of them involves only 5 quantum observables, thus enabling a straightforward implementation. They also enable establishing new entropic contextualities.

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@article{arxiv.1911.06448,
  title  = {Hypergraph Contextuality},
  author = {Mladen Pavicic},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.06448},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures, figures are positioned differently than in the paper - not where they are mentioned first, but where they are discussed the most