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We present the general Hardy-like quantum pigeonhole paradoxes for \textit{n}-particle states, and find that each of such paradoxes can be simply associated to an un-colorable solution of a specific vertex-coloring problem induced from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Shihao Ru , Cen-Xiao Huang , Xiao-Min Hu , Chao Zhang , Feiran Wang , Ni Liu , Weidong Tang , Pei Zhang , Bi-Heng Liu , Fuli Li

The quantum Cheshire cat effect is an important phenomenon in quantum mechanics that reveals the separability of physical properties from their carriers. This effect transcends the classical framework whose attributes must be inherently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Pan Zeming , Tan Naiming , Gao Chao , Yao Zhihai , Wang Xiaoqian

A recent criticism by Kunstatter et al. [Phys. Lett. A 384, 126686 (2020)] of a quantum setup violating the pigeon counting principle [Aharonov et al. PNAS 113, 532 (2016)] is refuted. The quantum nature of the violation of the pigeonhole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Yakir Aharonov , Shrobona Bagchi , Justin Dressel , Gregory Reznik , Michael Ridley , Lev Vaidman

The findings in the paper 'The quantum pigeonhole principle and the nature of quantum correlations', (arXiv 1407.3194), by Aharonov, Colombo, Popescu, Sabadini, Struppa and Tollaksen are scrutinized. I argue that some of the conclusions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-04 B. E. Y. Svensson

One of the common conceptions of nature, typically derived from the experiences with classical systems, is that attributes of the matter coexist with the substance. In the quantum regime, however, the quantum particle itself and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Yosep Kim , Dong-Gil Im , Yong-Su Kim , Sang-Wook Han , Sung Moon , Yoon-Ho Kim , Young-Wook Cho

Recently it was demonstrated, both theoretically and experimentally, how to separate a particle from its spin, or any other property, a phenomenon known as the "Quantum Cheshire Cat". We present two novel gedanken experiments, based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Yakir Aharonov , Eliahu Cohen , Sandu Popescu

We show that an experimental demonstration of quantum contextuality using 2 degrees of freedom of single neutrons based on a violation of an inequality derived from the Peres-Mermin proof of the Kochen-Specker theorem would be more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 Adan Cabello , Stefan Filipp , Helmut Rauch , Yuji Hasegawa

From its very beginning quantum theory has been revealing extraordinary and counter-intuitive phenomena, such as wave-particle duality, Schr\"odinger cats and quantum non-locality. In the study of quantum measurement, a process involving…

Quantum contextuality, as proved by Kochen and Specker, and also by Bell, should manifest itself in any state in any system with more than two distinguishable states and recently has been experimentally verified on various physical systems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Sixia Yu , C. H. Oh

A Hardy-like version of the quantum pigeonhole paradox is proposed, which can also be considered as a special kind of Hardy's paradox. Besides an example induced from the minimal system, a general construction of this paradox from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Weidong Tang

The quantum Cheshire cat is an effect demonstrated within the framework of weak measurement aided with post-selection scenario where the property (say, grin) of a quantum particle (the cat) can be found in a spatially separated location…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 A. K. Pan

In a recent work, Aharonov et al. suggested that a photon could be separated from its polarization in an experiment involving pre- and post-selection [New J. Phys 15, 113015 (2013)]. They named the effect 'quantum Cheshire Cat', in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-29 Raul Corrêa , Marcelo França Santos , C. H. Monken , Pablo L. Saldanha

From a quantum information perspective, verifying quantum coherence in a quantum experiment typically requires adjusting measurement settings or changing inputs. A paradigmatic example is that of a double-slit experiment, where observing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Fatemeh Bibak , Flavio Del Santo , Borivoje Dakić

The physical concept of quantum entanglement is brought to the biological domain. We simulate the cooperation of two insects by hypothesizing that they share a large number of quantum entangled spin-1/2 particles. Each of them makes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Johann Summhammer

A central result in the foundations of quantum mechanics is the Kochen-Specker theorem. In short, it states that quantum mechanics is in conflict with classical models in which the result of a measurement does not depend on which other…

The Kochen-Specker theorem theoretically shows evidence of the incompatibility of noncontextual hidden variable theories with quantum mechanics. Quantum contextuality is a more general concept than quantum non-locality which is quite well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-05 Yuji Hasegawa , Katharina Durstberger-Rennhofer , Stephan Sponar , Helmut Rauch

We performed an experimental test of the Kochen-Specker theorem based on an inequality derived from the Peres-Mermin proof, using spin-path (momentum) entanglement in a single neutron system. Following the strategy proposed by Cabello et…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-28 H. Bartosik , J. Klepp , C. Schmitzer , S. Sponar , A. Cabello , H. Rauch , Y. Hasegawa

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 concept of effective field theory leads in a natural way to a construction principle for phenomenological sensible models known under the name of the Cheshire Cat Principle. We review its formulation in the chiral bag scenario and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Vento

The question of whether quantum phenomena can be explained by classical models with hidden variables is the subject of a long lasting debate. In 1964, Bell showed that certain types of classical models cannot explain the quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-21 G. Kirchmair , F. Zähringer , R. Gerritsma , M. Kleinmann , O. Gühne , A. Cabello , R. Blatt , C. F. Roos