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The discrimination of quantum states is a central problem in quantum information science and technology. Meanwhile, partial post-selection has emerged as a valuable tool for quantum state engineering. In this work, we bring these two areas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Qipeng Qian , Christos N. Gagatsos

We identify a fundamental difference between classical and quantum dynamics in the linear response regime by showing that the latter is in general contextual. This allows us to provide an example of a quantum engine whose favorable power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-07 Matteo Lostaglio

Quantum theory departs from classical physics in its treatment of correlations, most prominently through the phenomena of contextuality and nonlocality. Once regarded primarily as foundational curiosities, these effects are now understood…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Jianqi Sheng , Dongkai Zhang , Lixiang Chen

We argue that for a \emph{single particle} Bell's inequality is a consequence of noncontextuality and is \emph{incompatible} with statistical predictions of quantum mechanics. Thus noncontextual models can be empirically falsified,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Sayandeb Basu , Somshubhro Bandyopadhyay , Guruprasad Kar , Dipankar Home

The last two decades have witnessed a rapid development of quantum information processing, a new paradigm which studies the power and limit of "quantum advantages" in various information processing tasks. Problems such as when quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Zhaohui Wei , Shengyu Zhang

Models of a phenomenon are often developed by examining it under different experimental conditions, or measurement contexts. The resultant probabilistic models assume that the underlying random variables, which define a measurable set of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Peter D. Bruza

Quantum technology has the potential to revolutionize how we acquire and process experimental data to learn about the physical world. An experimental setup that transduces data from a physical system to a stable quantum memory, and…

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

Quantum Machine Learning algorithms based on Variational Quantum Circuits (VQCs) are important candidates for useful application of quantum computing. It is known that a VQC is a linear model in a feature space determined by its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Slimane Thabet , Léo Monbroussou , Eliott Z. Mamon , Jonas Landman

Quantum contextuality is the key concept which explains the fact that the result of a measurement is not independent of the context in which it is found. It is observed to be an intrinsic feature, i.e., neither entanglement nor spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Firat Diker , Zafer Gedik

It is a fundamental prediction of quantum theory that states of physical systems are described by complex vectors or density operators on a Hilbert space. However, many experiments admit effective descriptions in terms of other state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Markus P. Mueller , Andrew J. P. Garner

We explore the link between two concepts: the level of violation of a Bell inequality by a quantum state and discrimination between two states by means of restricted classes of operations, such as local operations and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Karol Horodecki , Gláucia Murta

To make precise the sense in which nature fails to respect classical physics, one requires a formal notion of classicality. Ideally, such a notion should be defined operationally, so that it can be subjected to a direct experimental test,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-21 Michael D. Mazurek , Matthew F. Pusey , Ravi Kunjwal , Kevin J. Resch , Robert W. Spekkens

Quantum mechanics challenges our intuition on the cause-effect relations in nature. Some fundamental concepts, including Reichenbach's common cause principle or the notion of local realism, have to be reconsidered. Traditionally, this is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-04 Mariami Gachechiladze , Nikolai Miklin , Rafael Chaves

The emergence of classicality is fundamentally driven by the interaction between a quantum system and its environment. Foundational open-system approaches, notably the Caldeira-Leggett model, successfully captured how these interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Arthur C. R. Dutra , Roberto D. Baldijão , Marcelo Terra Cunha

Violations of Bell inequalities in classical optics have been demonstrated in terms of field mean intensities and correlations, however, the quantum meaning of violations point to statistics and probabilities. We present a violation of Bell…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Laura Ares , Alfredo Luis

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

Contextuality is a central property in comparative analysis of classical, quantum, and supercorrelated systems. We examine and compare two well-motivated approaches to contextuality. One approach ("contextuality-by-default") is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-21 J. Acacio de Barros , Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov , Janne V. Kujala , Gary Oas

It is known that "quantum non locality", leading to the violation of Bell's inequality and more generally of classical local realism, can be attributed to the conjunction of two properties, that we call here elementary locality and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Philippe Grangier

Boson sampling, a computational problem conjectured to be hard to simulate on a classical machine, is a promising candidate for an experimental demonstration of quantum advantage using bosons. However, inevitable experimental noise and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Gabriele Bressanini , Hyukjoon Kwon , M. S. Kim