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Contextuality lays at the heart of quantum mechanics. In the prevailing opinion it is considered as a signature of 'quantumness' that classical theories lack. However, this assertion is only partially justified. Although contextuality is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-26 Pawel Blasiak

Quantum measurements cannot be thought of as revealing preexisting results, even when they do not disturb any other measurement in the same trial. This feature is called contextuality and is crucial for the quantum advantage in computing.…

The notion of contextuality, which emerges from a theorem established by Simon Kochen and Ernst Specker (1960-1967) and by John Bell (1964-1966), is certainly one of the most fundamental aspects of quantum weirdness. If it is a questioning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Hippolyte Dourdent

Quantum contextuality is one of the fundamental notions in quantum mechanics. Proofs of the Kochen-Specker theorem and noncontextuality inequalities are two means for revealing the contextuality phenomenon in quantum mechanics. It has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Xiao-Dong Yu , Yan-Qing Guo , D. M. Tong

Quantum mechanics provides a statistical description about nature, and thus would be incomplete if its statistical predictions could not be accounted for by some realistic models with hidden variables. There are, however, two powerful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-04 Xi Kong , Mingjun Shi , Fazhan Shi , Pengfei Wang , Pu Huang , Qi Zhang , Chenyong Ju , Changkui Duan , Sixia Yu , Jiangfeng Du

Using a quantum like algebraic formulation we give proof of Kochen-Specker theorem. We introduce new criteria in order to account for the contextual nature of measurements in quantum mechanics.

General Physics · Physics 2007-12-19 Elio Conte

We investigate the violation of non-contextuality by a class of continuous variable states, including variations of entangled coherent states (ECS's) and a two-mode continuous superposition of coherent states. We generalise the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Gerard McKeown , Matteo G. A. Paris , Mauro Paternostro

KS-contextuality is a crucial feature of quantum theory. Previous research demonstrated the vanishing of $N$-cycle KS-contextuality in setups where multiple independent observers measure sequentially on the same system, which we call Public…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Arthur C. R. Dutra , Roberto D. Baldijão , Marcelo Terra Cunha

A set of quantum measurements exhibits quantum contextuality when any consistent value assignment to the measurement outcomes leads to a contradiction with quantum theory. In the original Kochen-Specker-type of argument the measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-25 Pascal Höhn , Zhen-Peng Xu , Matthias Kleinmann

Kochen-Specker (KS) theorem lies at the heart of the foundations of quantum mechanics. It establishes impossibility of explaining predictions of quantum theory by any noncontextual ontological model. Spekkens generalized the notion of KS…

The conflict between classical and quantum physics can be identified through a series of yes-no tests on quantum systems, without it being necessary that these systems be in special quantum states. Kochen-Specker (KS) sets of yes-no tests…

The quantum realms of nonlocality and contextuality are delineated by Bell's theorem and the Kochen-Specker theorem, respectively, embodying phenomena that surpass the explanatory capacities of classical theories. These realms hold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Min-Gang Zhou , Hua-Lei Yin , Zeng-Bing Chen

Quantum mechanics provides a statistical description about nature, and thus would be incomplete if its statistical predictions could not be accounted for some realistic models with hidden variables. There are, however, two powerful theorems…

Recent experiments have demonstrated ququart state-independent quantum contextuality and qutrit state-dependent quantum contextuality. So far, the most basic form of quantum contextuality pointed out by Kochen and Specker, and Bell, has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Adan Cabello , Elias Amselem , Kate Blanchfield , Mohamed Bourennane , Ingemar Bengtsson

The non-classicality of single quantum systems can be formalised using the notion of contextuality. But can contextuality be convincingly demonstrated in an experiment, without reference to the quantum formalism? The operational approach to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-19 Matthew F. Pusey , Lídia del Rio , Bettina Meyer

We report a single-neutron optical experiment to demonstrate the violation of a Bell-like inequality. Entanglement is achieved not between particles, but between the degrees of freedom, in this case, for a single-particle. The spin-{\small…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuji Hasegawa , Rudolf Loidl , Gerald Badurek , Matthias Baron , Helmut Rauch

Two distant systems can exhibit quantum nonlocality even though the correlations between them admit a local model. This nonlocality can be revealed by testing extra correlations between successive measurements on one of the systems which do…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Adan Cabello

We provide a cohomological framework for contextuality of quantum mechanics that is suited to describing contextuality as a resource in measurement-based quantum computation. This framework applies to the parity proofs first discussed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Cihan Okay , Sam Roberts , Stephen D. Bartlett , Robert Raussendorf

Two notions of nonclassicality that have been investigated intensively are: (i) negativity, that is, the need to posit negative values when representing quantum states by quasiprobability distributions such as the Wigner representation, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-07 Robert W. Spekkens

Exploring quantum phenomena beyond predictions of any classical model has fundamental importance to understand the boundary of classical and quantum descriptions of nature. As a typical property that a quantum system behaves distinctively…