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The presence of contextuality in quantum theory was first highlighted by Bell, Kochen and Specker, who discovered that for quantum systems of three or more dimensions, measurements cannot be viewed as revealing pre-existing properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Andrew W. Simmons , Joel J. Wallman , Hakop Pashayan , Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph

We present a detailed motivation for and definition of the contextual values of an observable, which were introduced by Dressel et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 104 240401 (2010)]. The theory of contextual values extends the well-established theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-29 J. Dressel , A. N. Jordan

Contextuality has been conjectured to be a super-classical resource for quantum computation, analogous to the role of non-locality as a super-classical resource for communication. We show that the presence of contextuality places a lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 Angela Karanjai , Joel J. Wallman , Stephen D. Bartlett

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…

The notion of (non)contextuality pertains to sets of properties measured one subset (context) at a time. We extend this notion to include so-called inconsistently connected systems, in which the measurements of a given property in different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-17 Janne V. Kujala , Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov , Jan-Åke Larsson

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

Quantum contextuality describes situations where the statistics observed in different measurement contexts cannot be explained by a measurement independent reality of the system. The most simple case is observed in a three-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Holger F. Hofmann

Quantum measurements are noncontextual, with outcomes independent of which other commuting observables are measured at the same time, when consistently analyzed using principles of Hilbert space quantum mechanics rather than classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-06 Robert B. Griffiths

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

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

Quantum theory has the intriguing feature that is inconsistent with noncontextual hidden variable models, for which the outcome of a measurement does not depend on which other compatible measurements are being performed concurrently. While…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-20 Hong-Yi Su , Jing-Ling Chen , Yeong-Cherng Liang

The quantum fluctuations of a physical property can be observed in the measurement statistics of any measurement that is at least partially sensitive to that physical property. Quantum theory indicates that the effective distribution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Holger F. Hofmann

Contextuality is a phenomenon at the heart of the quantum mechanical departure from classical behaviour, and has been recently identified as a resource in quantum computation. Experimental demonstration of contextuality is thus an important…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Xiang Zhan , Eric G. Cavalcanti , Jian Li , Zhihao Bian , Yongsheng Zhang , Howard M. Wiseman , Peng Xue

Quantum contextuality refers to the impossibility of assigning a predefined, intrinsic value to a physical property of a system independently of the context in which the property is measured. It is, perhaps, the most fundamental feature of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-18 M. Fabbrichesi , R. Floreanini , E. Gabrielli , L. Marzola

We propose that whatever quantity controls the Heisenberg uncertainty relations (for a given complementary pair of observables) it should be identified with an effective Planck parameter. With this definition it is not difficult to find…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 John D. Barrow , Joao Magueijo

Ontological theories of quantum mechanics provide a realistic description of single systems by means of well-defined quantities conditioning the measurement outcomes. In order to be complete, they should also fulfil the minimal condition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-23 Zeqian Chen , Alberto Montina

The contextuality of quantum mechanics, i.e. the measurement outcome dependence upon previously made measurements, can be shown by the violation of inequalities based on measurements of well chosen observables. An important property of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 A. Laversanne-Finot , A. Ketterer , M. R. Barros , S. P. Walborn , T. Coudreau , A. Keller , P. Milman

Quantum contextuality is a limitation on deterministic hidden variable models, testable in measurement scenarios where outcomes differ under quantum or classical descriptions due to a common set of constraints. When considering measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Colm Kelleher , Frédéric Holweck

Quantum computers will provide considerable speedups with respect to their classical counterparts. However, the identification of the innately quantum features that enable these speedups is challenging. In the continuous-variable setting -…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-13 Robert I. Booth , Ulysse Chabaud , Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau

Contextuality provides a unifying paradigm for nonclassical aspects of quantum probabilities and resources of quantum information. Unfortunately, most forms of quantum contextuality remain experimentally unexplored due to the difficulty of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-02 Adán Cabello