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Quantum discord and noncontextual hidden variables models

Quantum Physics 2015-06-03 v1

Abstract

It is shown that theoretically viable noncontextual hidden variables models in d=2d=2 lead to conflicting dispersion free expressions in the analysis of the conditional measurement of two non-orthogonal projectors. No satisfactory criterion of the quantum discord, which relies on the analysis of conditional measurement, is formulated in the d=2d=2 hidden variables space due to a lack of uniqueness of the dispersion free representation. We also make a speculative comment on a "many-worlds interpretation" of hidden variables models to account for the conditional measurement.

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@article{arxiv.1201.4421,
  title  = {Quantum discord and noncontextual hidden variables models},
  author = {Kazuo Fujikawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.4421},
  year   = {2015}
}

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