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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

Quantum state discrimination, alongside its other applications, has recently found use as a tool for witnessing generalised contextuality. In this article, we derive noncontextuality inequalities for both conclusive and inconclusive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Kieran Flatt , Joonwoo Bae

Contextuality is a key characteristic that separates quantum from classical phenomena and an important tool in understanding the potential advantage of quantum computation. However, when assessing the quantum resources available for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Maiyuren Srikumar , Stephen D. Bartlett , Angela Karanjai

One of the most fundamental results in quantum information theory is that no measurement can perfectly discriminate between non-orthogonal quantum states. In this work, we investigate quantum advantages for discrimination tasks over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-20 Kieran Flatt , Hanwool Lee , Carles Roch i Carceller , Jonatan Bohr Brask , Joonwoo Bae

We compare the power of quantum and classical physics in terms of randomness certification from devices which are only partially characterised. We study randomness certification based on state discrimination and take noncontextuality as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Carles Roch I Carceller , Kieran Flatt , Hanwool Lee , Joonwoo Bae , Jonatan Bohr Brask

Exploring quantum phenomena beyond predictions of any classical model has fundamental importance to understand the boundary of classical and quantum descriptions of nature. As a typical property that a quantum system behaves distinctively…

Quantum contextuality is a key nonclassical feature underlying advantages in quantum computation and communication. We introduce a new method to study contextuality in quantum information-processing tasks and protocols, relying solely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Mina Doosti , Theodoros Yianni , Farid Shahandeh

Contextuality is regarded as a non-classical feature, challenging our everyday intuition; quantum contextuality is currently seen as a resource for many applications in quantum computation, being responsible for quantum advantage over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 Roberto D. Baldijao , Marcelo Terra Cunha

We show that the phenomenon of quantum contextuality can be used to certify lower bounds on the dimension accessed by the measurement devices. To prove this, we derive bounds for different dimensions and scenarios of the simplest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-12 Otfried Gühne , Costantino Budroni , Adan Cabello , Matthias Kleinmann , Jan-Åke Larsson

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

The generalized notion of noncontextuality provides an avenue to explore the fundamental departure of quantum theory from a classical explanation. Recently, extracting a different form of quantum advantage in various information processing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Sumit Mukherjee , Shivam Naonit , A. K. Pan

Quantum theory features several phenomena which can be considered as resources for information processing tasks. Some of these effects, such as entanglement, arise in a nonlocal scenario, where a quantum state is distributed between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Martin Plávala , Otfried Gühne

Contextuality is a natural generalization of nonlocality which does not need composite systems or spacelike separation and offers a wider spectrum of interesting phenomena. Most notably, in quantum mechanics there exist scenarios where the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Matthias Kleinmann , Costantino Budroni , Jan-Åke Larsson , Otfried Gühne , Adan Cabello

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

Despite the conceptual importance of contextuality in quantum mechanics, there is a hitherto limited number of applications requiring contextuality but not entanglement. Here, we show that for any quantum state and observables of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-07 Shashank Gupta , Debashis Saha , Zhen-Peng Xu , Adán Cabello , A. S. Majumdar

Quantum computers promise dramatic advantages over their classical counterparts, but the answer to the most basic question "What is the source of the power in quantum computing?" has remained elusive. Here we prove a remarkable equivalence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Mark Howard , Joel J. Wallman , Victor Veitch , Joseph Emerson

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…

Contextuality is considered as an intrinsic signature of non-classicality, and a crucial resource for achieving unique advantages of quantum information processing. However, recently there have been debates on whether classical fields may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-28 Aonan Zhang , Huichao Xu , Jie Xie , Han Zhang , Brian J. Smith , M. S. Kim , Lijian Zhang

Quantum state discrimination enables the accurate identification of quantum states, which are generally nonorthogonal. Among various strategies, minimum-error discrimination and unambiguous state discrimination exhibit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Min Namkung , Hyang-Tag Lim

Contextuality is well known as a vital resource for locating the boundary between classical and quantum theories, as well as identifying tasks showing quantum advantage. In a surge of recent works [Schmid and Spekkens, Phys.Rev.X 8, 011015…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Xuan Fan , Ya Xiao , Yongjian Gu
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