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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

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

One of the central features of quantum theory is that there are pairs of quantum observables that cannot be measured simultaneously. This incompatibility of quantum observables is a necessary ingredient in several quantum phenomena, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Teiko Heinosaari

We develop the contextual measurement model (CMM) which is used for clarification of the quantum foundations. This model matches with Bohr's views on the role of experimental contexts. CMM is based on contextual probability theory which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Andrei Khrennikov

The Kochen-Specker (KS) theorem is a corner-stone result in the foundations of quantum mechanics describing the fundamental difference between quantum theory and classical non-contextual theories. Recently specific substructures termed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Yuan Liu , Ravishankar Ramanathan , Karol Horodecki , Monika Rosicka , Paweł Horodecki

One of the defining differences between classical and quantum systems is how measurements affect them. Here, we compare the approaches of contextuality and quantum discord in capturing quantum correlations in special classes of two-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Asma Al-Qasimi

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

Finding quantitative aspects of quantum phenomena which cannot be explained by any classical model has foundational importance for understanding the boundary between classical and quantum theory. It also has practical significance for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 David Schmid , Robert W. Spekkens

The existence of incompatible measurements is a fundamental phenomenon having no explanation in classical physics. Intuitively, one considers given measurements to be incompatible within a framework of a physical theory, if their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-27 Teiko Heinosaari , Jukka Kiukas , Daniel Reitzner

The objectivity is a basic requirement for the measurements in the classical world, namely, different observers must reach a consensus on their measurement results, so that they believe that the object exists "objectively" since whoever…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-04 Sheng-Wen Li , C. Y. Cai , X. F. Liu , C. P. Sun

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

It is well known that in quantum mechanics we cannot always define consistently properties that are context independent. Many approaches exist to describe contextual properties, such as Contextuality by Default (CbD), sheaf theory, topos…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 J. Acacio de Barros , Federico Holik , Decio Krause

Contextuality and nonlocality are non-classical properties exhibited by quantum statistics whose implications profoundly impact both foundations and applications of quantum theory. In this paper we provide some insights into logical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Leonardo Santos , Barbara Amaral

Pivotal within quantum physics, the concept of quantum incompatibility is generally related to algebraic aspects of the formalism, such as commutation relations and unbiasedness of bases. Recently, the concept was identified as a resource…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 E. Martins , M. F. Savi , R. M. Angelo

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 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

Violation of a noncontextuality inequality or the phenomenon referred to `quantum contextuality' is a fundamental feature of quantum theory. In this article, we derive a novel family of noncontextuality inequalities along with their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-07 Debashis Saha , Rafael Santos , Remigiusz Augusiak

Superposition is the core feature that sets quantum theory apart from classical physics. Here, we investigate whether sets of quantum measurements can be modelled by using only devices that are operationally classical, in the sense that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 Gabriele Cobucci , Alexander Bernal , Roope Uola , Armin Tavakoli

We show that, for any system with a number of levels which can be identified with n qubits, there is an inequality for the correlations between three compatible dichotomic measurements which must be satisfied by any noncontextual theory,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-15 Adan Cabello

Quantum mechanics has been subject to logical scrutiny since its inception. The behavior of quantum systems, which are fundamentally dissimilar from classical systems, often appears to point to a logical inconsistency in quantum mechanics,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Felipe Dilho Alves , João Carlos Alves Barata