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Contextuality, the impossibility of assigning a single random variable to represent the outcomes of the same measurement procedure under different experimental conditions, is a central aspect of quantum mechanics. Thus defined, it appears…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-17 J. Acacio de Barros , Gary Oas

In this work we build a quantum logic that allows us to refer to physical magnitudes pertaining to different contexts from a fixed one without the contradictions with quantum mechanics expressed in no-go theorems. This logic arises from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Graciela Domenech , Hector Freytes

Quantum coherence, nonlocality, and contextuality are key resources for quantum advantage in metrology, communication, and computation. We introduce a graph-based approach to derive classicality inequalities that bound local,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Rafael Wagner , Rui Soares Barbosa , Ernesto F. Galvão

Contextuality is a fundamental property of quantum mechanics. Contrary to entanglement, which can only exist in composite systems, contextuality is also present for single entities. The case of a three-level system is of particular interest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-20 M. Fabbrichesi , R. Floreanini , E. Gabrielli , L. Marzola

Ambiguities of natural language do not preclude us from using it and context helps in getting ideas across. They, nonetheless, pose a key challenge to the development of competent machines to understand natural language and use it as humans…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-12 Kin Ian Lo , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Shane Mansfield

We present a formal theory of contextuality for a set of random variables grouped into different subsets (contexts) corresponding to different, mutually incompatible conditions. Within each context the random variables are jointly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov , Janne V. Kujala , Jan-Åke Larsson

Identifying when observed statistics cannot be explained by any reasonable classical model is a central problem in quantum foundations. A principled and universally applicable approach to defining and identifying nonclassicality is given by…

Contextuality is a non-classical behaviour that can be exhibited by quantum systems. It is increasingly studied for its relationship to quantum-over-classical advantages in informatic tasks. To date, it has largely been studied in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 Rui Soares Barbosa , Tom Douce , Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau , Elham Kashefi , Shane Mansfield

Finding quantitative aspects of quantum phenomena which cannot be explained by any classical model has foundational importance for understanding the boundary between classical and quantum theory. It also has practical significance for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 David Schmid , Robert W. Spekkens

We provide a unified operational framework for the study of causality, non-locality and contextuality, in a fully device-independent and theory-independent setting. Our work has its roots in the sheaf-theoretic framework for contextuality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Stefano Gogioso , Nicola Pinzani

We analyse nonclassical resources in interference phenomena using generalized noncontextuality inequalities and basis-independent coherence witnesses. We use recently proposed inequalities that witness both resources within the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-07 Rafael Wagner , Anita Camillini , Ernesto F. Galvão

Quantum theory features several phenomena which can be considered as resources for information processing tasks. Some of these effects, such as entanglement, arise in a nonlocal scenario, where a quantum state is distributed between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Martin Plávala , Otfried Gühne

Presheaf models provide a formulation of labelled transition systems that is useful for, among other things, modelling concurrent computation. This paper aims to extend such models further to represent stochastic dynamics such as shown in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-12-31 Kohei Kishida

Kochen-Specker theorem rules out the non-contextual assignment of values to physical magnitudes. Here we enrich the usual orthomodular structure of quantum mechanical propositions with modal operators. This enlargement allows to refer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Graciela Domenech , Hector Freytes , Christian de Ronde

Contextuality is regarded as a non-classical feature, challenging our everyday intuition; quantum contextuality is currently seen as a resource for many applications in quantum computation, being responsible for quantum advantage over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 Roberto D. Baldijao , Marcelo Terra Cunha

Measurement incompatibility is the most basic resource that distinguishes quantum from classical physics. Contextuality is the critical resource behind the power of some models of quantum computation and is also a necessary ingredient for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Zhen-Peng Xu , Adán Cabello

A central question in quantum computation is to identify the resources that are responsible for quantum speed-up. Quantum contextuality has been recently shown to be a resource for quantum computation with magic states for odd-prime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Juan Bermejo-Vega , Nicolas Delfosse , Dan E. Browne , Cihan Okay , Robert Raussendorf

Contextuality (or lack thereof) is a property of systems of random variables. Among the measures of the degree of contextuality, two have played important roles. One of them, Contextual Fraction ($\text{CNTF}$) was proposed within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Víctor H. Cervantes

Homomorphisms between relational structures play a central role in finite model theory, constraint satisfaction and database theory. A central theme in quantum computation is to show how quantum resources can be used to gain advantage in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Samson Abramsky , Rui Soares Barbosa , Nadish de Silva , Octavio Zapata

Classical chaos is marked by an extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, where infinitesimally close trajectories separate exponentially over time. In quantum mechanics, however, unitary evolution and the uncertainty principle preclude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Sanchit Srivastava , Shohini Ghose