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There are two different and logically independent concepts of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics. First, an ontological (hidden variable) model for quantum mechanics is called noncontextual if every ontic (hidden) state determines the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-03 Gábor Hofer-Szabó

Contextuality is a fundamental feature of quantum theory and a necessary resource for quantum computation and communication. It is therefore important to investigate how large contextuality can be in quantum theory. Linear contextuality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 Barbara Amaral , Marcelo Terra Cunha , Adán Cabello

Nonlinear modifications of quantum theory are considered potential candidates for the theory of quantum gravity, with the intuitive argument that since Einstein field equations are nonlinear, quantum gravity should be nonlinear as well.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Ruben Campos Delgado , Martin Plávala

A generalisation of quantum contextuality to the case of many indentical particles is presented. The model consists of a finite collection of modes that can be occupied by N particles, either bosons or fermions. Measurement scenarios allow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Pawel Kurzynski

This is a non-technical introduction into theory of contextuality. More precisely, it presents the basics of a theory of contextuality called Contextuality-by-Default (CbD). One of the main tenets of CbD is that the identity of a random…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov

For spin-1/2 particles, using a suitable Mach-Zehnder-type setup with a spin-flipper, we argue that it is a direct consequence of the quantum mechanical treatment that an experimentally verifiable \textit{subensemble} mean of the measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alok Kumar Pan , Dipankar Home

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

The quantum predictions for a single nonrelativistic spin-1/2 particle can be reproduced by noncontextual hidden variables. Here we show that quantum contextuality for a relativistic electron moving in a Coulomb potential naturally emerges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Jing-Ling Chen , Hong-Yi Su , Chunfeng Wu , Dong-Ling Deng , Adan Cabello , L. C. Kwek , C. H. Oh

Quantum contextuality represents a fundamental form of nonclassicality in quantum mechanics. To provide a more complete characterization of nonclassical properties in quantum systems, we adopt a logical perspective and propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Songyi Liu , Yongjun Wang , Baoshan Wang , Chang He , Jincheng Wang

Generalized contextuality refers to our inability of explaining measurement statistics using a context-independent probabilistic and ontological model. On the other hand, measurement statistics can also be modeled using the framework of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Farid Shahandeh

It was presented by Cabello and Nakamura [A. Cabello, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 190401 (2003)], that the Kochen-Specker theorem applies to two dimensions if one uses Positive Operator-Valued Measures. We show that contextuality in their models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-24 Andrzej Grudka , Pawel Kurzynski

We characterize a value of an observable by a `sum rule' for generally non-commuting observables and a `product rule' when restricted to a maximal commuting subalgebra of observables together with the requirement that the value is unity for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 Akio Hosoya , Minoru Koga

We consider the contextual fraction as a quantitative measure of contextuality of empirical models, i.e. tables of probabilities of measurement outcomes in an experimental scenario. It provides a general way to compare the degree of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Samson Abramsky , Rui Soares Barbosa , Shane Mansfield

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.…

This paper illustrates a direct connection between quantum steering and non-trivial preparation contextuality. In two party-two measurement per party-two outcomes per measurement $(2-2-2)$ Bell scenario, any argument of Bell nonlocality is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-02 Prabuddha Roy , A. K. Pan

In this paper we attempt to analyze the physical and philosophical meaning of quantum contextuality. We will argue that there exists a general confusion within the foundational literature arising from the improper "scrambling" of two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-19 Christian de Ronde

Contextuality is a central feature of quantum theory, traditionally understood as the impossibility of reproducing quantum measurement statistics using noncontextual ontological models. We study classical ontological descriptions in which a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Song-Ju Kim

Contextuality is considered as one of the most distinctive features of nonclassical systems. Here, we show that a Spekkens contextual system (which previous work has shown is a necessary condition for nonclassicality) formed of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Enrico Bozzetto , Jonte R. Hance

Contextuality is central to both the foundations of quantum theory and to the novel information processing tasks. Although it was recognized before Bell's nonlocality, despite some recent proposals, it still faces a fundamental problem: how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 A. Grudka , K. Horodecki , M. Horodecki , P. Horodecki , R. Horodecki , P. Joshi , W. Kłobus , A. Wójcik

Wigner's Friend scenarios push the boundaries of quantum theory by modeling agents, along with their memories storing measurement outcomes, as physical quantum systems. Extending these ideas beyond quantum theory, we ask: in which physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Nuriya Nurgalieva , V. Vilasini