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Quantum mechanics provides a statistical description about nature, and thus would be incomplete if its statistical predictions could not be accounted for some realistic models with hidden variables. There are, however, two powerful theorems…

Contextuality is a key signature of quantum non-classicality, which has been shown to play a central role in enabling quantum advantage for a wide range of information-processing and computational tasks. We study the logic of contextuality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Samson Abramsky , Rui Soares Barbosa

The purpose of this article is to show that the introduction of hidden variables to describe individual events is fully consistent with the statistical predictions of quantum theory. We illustrate the validity of this assertion by…

General Physics · Physics 2007-08-07 L. Fritsche , M. Haugk

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 correlations are contextual yet, in general, nothing prevents the existence of even more contextual correlations. We identify and test a noncontextuality inequality in which the quantum violation cannot be improved by any…

We define a family of 'no signaling' bipartite boxes with arbitrary inputs and binary outputs, and with a range of marginal probabilities. The defining correlations are motivated by the Klyachko version of the Kochen-Specker theorem, so we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Jeffrey Bub , Allen Stairs

We propose an information -- theoretic framework for quantifying Kochen-Specker contextuality. Two complementary measures are introduced: the mutual information energy, a state-independent quantity inspired by Onicescu's information energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ali Can Günhan , Zafer Gedik

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

Recently a new impulse has been given to the experimental investigation of contextuality. In this paper we show that for a widely used definition of contextuality there can be no decisive experiment on the existence of contextuality. To…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-21 Ronnie Hermens

Using simple quantum analysis we describe the correlations of Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) states by the use of Hilbert-Schmidt (HS) representation. Our conclusion is that while these states disprove local-realism they do not prove any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. Ben-Aryeh

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

Quantum contextuality supports quantum computation and communication. One of its main vehicles is hypergraphs. The most elaborated are the Kochen-Specker ones, but there is also another class of contextual sets that are not of this kind.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Mladen Pavicic

Physical potentials are routinely approximated to harmonic potentials so as to analytically solve the system dynamics. Often it is important to know when a quantum harmonic oscillator (QHO) behaves quantum mechanically and when classically.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Hemant Katiyar , C. S. Sudheer Kumar , T. S. Mahesh

Quantum non-demolition measurements facilitate various quantum technologies, including quantum communication. Notably, their operational structure can be replicated by a classical model--referred to as a noncontextual model--making it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Min Namkung , Ilhwan Kim , Hyang-Tag Lim

The existence of contextuality in quantum mechanics is a fundamental departure from the classical description of the world. Currently, the quest to identify scenarios which cannot be more contextual than quantum theory is at the forefront…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Dileep Singh , Jaskaran Singh , Kavita Dorai , Arvind

Yu and Oh [1] have given a state independent proof of the Kochen-Specker theorem in three dimensions using only 13 rays. The proof consists of showing that a non-contextual hidden variable theory necessarily leads to an inequality that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ingemar Bengtsson , Kate Blanchfield , Adan Cabello

Photons are ideal carriers for quantum information as they can have a long coherence time and can be transmitted over long distances. These properties are a consequence of their weak interactions within a nearly linear medium. To create and…

It has been recently shown that state-independent contextuality (SIC) is a fundamental resource linked with a type of nonlocality which cannot be improved by nonsignaling resources. Therefore, it is of fundamental importance to identify the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-05 Adan Cabello

We show that correlations inconsistent with any locally causal description can be a generic feature of measurements on entangled quantum states. Specifically, spatially-separated parties who perform local measurements on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Yeong-Cherng Liang , Nicholas Harrigan , Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph

It has been argued that any test of quantum contextuality is nullified by the fact that perfect orthogonality and perfect compatibility cannot be achieved in finite precision experiments. We introduce experimentally testable two-qutrit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 Adan Cabello , Marcelo Terra Cunha