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Quantum systems are known to offer advantages over their classical counterpart in communication complexity protocols, where the aim is to minimize the amount of information exchange between distant parties to compute global functions of…

In addition to the important role of contextuality in foundations of quantum theory, this intrinsically quantum property has been identified as a potential resource for quantum advantage in different tasks. It is thus of fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Barbara Amaral

We consider quantum formalism limited by the classical simulating computer with the fixed memory. The memory is redistributed in the course of modeling by the variation of the set of classical states and the accuracy of the representation…

General Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Yu. I. Ozhigov

Quantum computation is frequently mischaracterized as the simultaneous execution of exponentially many classical computations. This article offers a conceptual clarification of why this ``branchwise parallelism'' picture is misleading,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Karl Svozil

We reveal that the entropic uncertainty relation with a quantum memory is able to intrinsically connect local generic contextuality addressed in the pioneering work by Spekkens and nonlocal quantum resources such as entanglement and Bell…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Wei Li , Min-Xuan Zhou , Yun-Hao Shi , Z. D. Wang , Heng Fan , Yan-Kui Bai

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

Reservoir computing is a versatile paradigm in computational neuroscience and machine learning, that exploits the non-linear dynamics of a dynamical system - the reservoir - to efficiently process time-dependent information. Since its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-21 Francesco Monzani , Enrico Prati

It is one of the most fundamental objectives in quantum information science to understand the boundary between the computational power of classical and quantum computers. One possible avenue to explore this boundary is to identify classes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Christophe Piveteau

We unify the resource-theoretic and the cohomological perspective on quantum contextuality. At the center of this unification stands the notion of the contextual fraction. For both symmetry and parity based contextuality proofs, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Cihan Okay , Emily Tyhurst , Robert Raussendorf

We employ the resource theory of generalized contextuality as a tool for analyzing the structure of prepare-and-measure scenarios. We argue that this framework simplifies proofs of quantum contextuality in complex scenarios and strengthens…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Rafael Wagner , Roberto D. Baldijão , Alisson Tezzin , Bárbara Amaral

Deviations from classical physics when distant quantum systems become correlated are interesting both fundamentally and operationally. There exist situations where the correlations enable collaborative tasks that are impossible within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Farid Shahandeh , Austin P. Lund , Timothy C. Ralph

Recently, an interesting form of non-classical effect which can be considered as a form of contextuality within quantum mechanics, has been demonstrated for a four-level system by discriminating the different routes that are taken for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 A. K. Pan , K. Mandal

Contextuality is a fundamental marker of quantum non-classicality, which has emerged as a key resource for quantum computational advantage in multiple settings. Many such results hinge specifically on contextuality witnessed through Pauli…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Raman Choudhary , Rui Soares Barbosa

We explore the relationship between Kochen-Specker quantum contextuality and Bell-nonclassicality for ensembles of two-qubit pure states. We present a comparative analysis showing that the violation of a noncontextuality inequality on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-26 Giovanni Scala , Antonio Mandarino

Contextuality is a distinguishing feature of quantum mechanics and there is growing evidence that it is a necessary condition for quantum advantage. In order to make use of it, researchers have been asking whether similar phenomena arise in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Kin Ian Lo , Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh , Shane Mansfield

We consider two-stage hybrid protocols that combine quantum resource and classical resource to generate classical correlations shared by two separated players. Our motivation is twofold. First, in the near future the scale of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Xiaodie Lin , Zhaohui Wei , Penghui Yao

While there is strong evidence for advantages of quantum over classical computation, the repertoire of computational primitives with proven or conjectured quantum advantage remains limited. A big challenge of quantum algorithmic design is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Tom Krüger , Wolfgang Mauerer

We introduce a contextual quantum system comprising mutually complementary observables organized into two or more collections of pseudocontexts with the same probability sums of outcomes. These pseudocontexts constitute non-orthogonal bases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Mirko Navara , Karl Svozil

Scalable modern-time fault-tolerant quantum computation and quantum communication in a network employ a large number of physical qubits. For example, IBM is reported to have made a 127-qubit quantum computer. Unlike classical computation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-23 Sooryansh Asthana , V. Ravishankar

Stochastic processes underlie a vast range of natural and social phenomena. Some processes such as atomic decay feature intrinsic randomness, whereas other complex processes, e.g. traffic congestion, are effectively probabilistic because we…