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Although `quantum contextuality' is one of the most fundamental non-classical feature, its generic role in information processing and computation is an open quest. In this article, we present a family of distributed computing tasks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-17 Debashis Saha , Paweł Horodecki , Marcin Pawłowski

Certain concrete "ontological models" for quantum mechanics (models in which measurement outcomes are deterministic and quantum states are equivalent to classical probability distributions over some space of `hidden variables') are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Terry Rudolph

The predictions of quantum theory resist generalised noncontextual explanations. In addition to the foundational relevance of this fact, the particular extent to which quantum theory violates noncontextuality limits available quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Anubhav Chaturvedi , Máté Farkas , Victoria J Wright

The question of a hidden variable interpretation of quantum contextuality in the Mermin-Peres square is considered. The Kochen-Specker theorem implies that quantum mechanics may be interpreted as a contextual hidden variable theory. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-04 Brian R. La Cour

In the paper it is shown that the Kochen-Specker theorem follows from Burnside's theorem on noncommutative algebras. Accordingly, contextuality (as an impossibility of assigning binary values to projection operators independently of their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-21 Arkady Bolotin

Our everyday experiences support the hypothesis that physical systems exist independently of the act of observation. Concordant theories are characterized by the objective realism assumption whereby the act of measurement simply reveals…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-05 Jayne Thompson , Pawel Kurzynski , Su-Yong Lee , Akihito Soeda , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

Contextuality provides one of the fundamental characterizations of quantum phenomena, and can be used as a resource in lots of quantum information processing. In this paper, we summarize and derive some equivalent noncontextual inequalities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-20 Shihao Ru , Weidong Tang , Yunlong Wang , Feiran Wang , Pei Zhang , Fuli li

The Kochen-Specker theorem shows the impossibility for a hidden variable theory to consistently assign values to certain (finite) sets of observables in a way that is non-contextual and consistent with quantum mechanics. If we require…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-19 Alastair A. Abbott , Cristian S. Calude , Jonathan Conder , Karl Svozil

Different analytic notions of contextuality fall into two major groups: probabilistic and strong notions of contextuality. Kochen and Specker's Theorem~0 is a demarcation criterion for differentiating between those groups. Whereas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Karl Svozil

Contextuality - the obstruction to describing quantum mechanics in a classical statistical way - has been proposed as a resource that powers quantum computing. The measurement-based model provides a concrete manifestation of contextuality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-12 Markus Frembs , Sam Roberts , Stephen D. Bartlett

It was presented by Cabello and Nakamura [A. Cabello, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 190401 (2003)], that the Kochen-Specker theorem applies to two dimensions if one uses Positive Operator-Valued Measures. We show that contextuality in their models…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-24 Andrzej Grudka , Pawel Kurzynski

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

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

Generalisation in machine learning often relies on the ability to encode structures present in data into an inductive bias of the model class. To understand the power of quantum machine learning, it is therefore crucial to identify the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Joseph Bowles , Victoria J Wright , Máté Farkas , Nathan Killoran , Maria Schuld

Contextuality is a defining feature that separates the quantum from the classical descriptions of physical systems. Within the marginal-scenario framework, noncontextual models are characterized by the existence of a single joint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Andrea Navoni , Marco G. Genoni , Andrea Smirne

State transformations in quantum mechanics are described by completely positive maps which are constructed from quantum channels. We call a finest sharp quantum channel a context. The result of a measurement depends on the context under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Stan Gudder

Two distant systems can exhibit quantum nonlocality even though the correlations between them admit a local model. This nonlocality can be revealed by testing extra correlations between successive measurements on one of the systems which do…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Adan Cabello

We introduce a notion of contextuality for transformations in sequential contexts, distinct from the Bell-Kochen-Specker and Spekkens notions of contextuality. Within a transformation-based model for quantum computation we show that strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Shane Mansfield , Elham Kashefi

Contextuality is a fundamental property of quantum mechanics. Contrary to entanglement, which can only exist in composite systems, contextuality is also present for single entities. The case of a three-level system is of particular interest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-20 M. Fabbrichesi , R. Floreanini , E. Gabrielli , L. Marzola

Kochen-Specker theorems assure the breakdown of certain types of non-contextual hidden variable theories through the non-existence of global, holistic frame functions; alas they do not allow us to identify where this breakdown occurs, nor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 Alastair A. Abbott , Cristian S. Calude , Karl Svozil