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Fully revealing the mathmatical structure of quantum contextuality is a significant task, while some known contextuality theories are only applicable for rank-1 projectors. That is because they adopt the observable-based definitions. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-17 Songyi Liu , Yongjun Wang , Baoshan Wang , Yunyi Jia

Hidden variables are extra components added to try to banish counterintuitive features of quantum mechanics. We start with a quantum-mechanical model and describe various properties that can be asked of a hidden-variable model. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-03 Adam Brandenburger , Noson Yanofsky

The Bell-Kochen-Specker conditions (BKS) for a deterministic noncontextual hidden-variable model are wonderfully simple to state, deal with just one-dimensional projectors on a Hilbert space H and make no reference to a probabilistic phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 James D. Malley

We investigate the possibility of constructing Kochen-Specker uncolorable sets of idempotent matrices whose entries lie in various rings, including the rational numbers, the integers, and finite fields. Most notably, we show that there is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-14 Michael Ben-Zvi , Alexander Ma , Manuel Reyes

Unspeakable coherence is a key feature separating quantum and classical physics. Modelled as asymmetry with respect to a continuous transformation generated by a physically relevant observable, such as the Hamiltonian or angular moment,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-05 Benjamin Stratton , Chung-Yun Hsieh , Paul Skrzypczyk

The Kochen-Specker theorem states that exclusive and complete deterministic outcome assignments are impossible for certain sets of measurements, called Kochen-Specker (KS) sets. A straightforward consequence is that KS sets do not have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Kelvin Onggadinata , Dagomir Kaszlikowski , Pawel Kurzynski

We construct the invisible quantum barrier which represents the phenomenon of quantum reflection using the available data. We use the Abel equation to invert the data. The resulting invisible quantum barrier is double-valued in both axes.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 J. X. de Carvalho , M. S. Hussein , Weibin Li

We construct the invisible quantum barrier which represents the phenomenon of quantum reflection using the available data. We use the Abel equation to invert the data. The resulting invisible quantum barrier is double-valued in both axes.…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. X. de Carvalho , M. S. Hussein , Weibin Li

The CQC conjecture by Schneeloch et al. (Physical Review A 90.6, 2014) asserts that the sum of classical mutual information between two parties obtained by measuring individual systems in two mutually unbiased bases cannot exceed their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Hasan Iqbal

The output randomness from a random number generator can be certified by observing the violation of quantum contextuality inequalities based on the Kochen-Specker theorem. Contextuality can be tested in a single quantum system, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-08 Mark Um , Qi Zhao , Junhua Zhang , Pengfei Wang , Ye Wang , Mu Qiao , Hongyi Zhou , Xiongfeng Ma , Kihwan Kim

We present a computational survey of Kochen-Specker (KS) uncolorability in three-dimensional Hilbert space across two-symbol coordinate alphabets $\mathcal{A} = \{0, \pm 1, \pm x\}$ drawn from quadratic, cyclotomic, and golden-ratio number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Michael Kernaghan

We introduce a logic modelling some aspects of the behaviour of the measurement process, in such a way that no direct mention of quantum states is made, thus avoiding the problems associated to this rather evasive notion. We then study some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Olivier Brunet

We investigate multiple qubit Pauli groups and the quantum states/rays arising from their maximal bases. Remarkably, the real rays are carried by a Barnes-Wall lattice $BW_n$ ($n=2^m$). We focus on the smallest subsets of rays allowing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-27 Michel R. P. Planat

Self-testing of quantum devices based on observed measurement statistics is a method to certify quantum systems using minimal resources. In Ref. [Phys. Rev. \textbf{A} 101, 032106 (2020)], a scheme based on observing measurement statistics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Chellasamy Jebarathinam , Gautam Sharma , Sk Sazim , Remigiusz Augusiak

Though John Bell had claimed that his spin-1/2 example of a hidden-variable theory(HV) is an \emph{explicit} counterexample to von Neumann's proof of the non-existence of hidden variable theories empirically equivalent to quantum mechanics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 Kaushik Borah , N. D. Hari Dass

A two-user symmetric Gaussian Interference Channel (IC) is considered in which a noiseless unidirectional link connects one encoder to the other. Having a constant capacity, the additional link provides partial cooperation between the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2009-09-16 Hossein Bagheri , Abolfazl S. Motahari , Amir K. Khandani

All quantum random number generators based on measuring value indefinite observables are at least three-dimensional because the Kochen-Specker Theorem and the Located Kochen-Specker Theorem are false in dimension two. In this article, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Cristian S. Calude , Karl Svozil

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-18 Mladen Pavicic

The structure of a complete lattice formed by closed linear subspaces of a Hilbert space (i.e., a Hilbert lattice) entails some unreasonable consequences from the physical point of view. Specifically, this structure seems to contradict to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-07 Arkady Bolotin

If noncontextuality is defined as the robustness of a system's response to a measurement against other simultaneous measurements, then the Kochen-Specker arguments do not provide an algebraic proof for quantum contextuality. Namely, for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-30 Gábor Hofer-Szabó