English
Related papers

Related papers: Harvesting Contextuality from the Vacuum

200 papers

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

Quantum contextuality is a source of quantum computational power and a theoretical delimiter between classical and quantum structures. It has been substantiated by numerous experiments and prompted generation of state independent contextual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-18 Mladen Pavicic

Finding a set of empirical criteria fulfilled by any theory satisfying the generalized notion of noncontextuality is a challenging task of both operational and foundational importance. This work presents a methodology for constructing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-04 Soumyabrata Hazra , Debashis Saha , Anubhav Chaturvedi , Subhankar Bera , A. S. Majumdar

The harvesting of quantum resources from the vacuum state of a quantum field is a central topic in relativistic quantum information. While several proposals for the harvesting of entanglement from the quantum vacuum exist, less attention…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 S. Cepollaro , S. Cusumano , A. Hamma , G. Lo Giudice , J. Odavic

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

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

We present a derivation and experimental implementation of a dimension-dependent contextuality inequality to certify both the quantumness and dimensionality of a given system. Existing methods for certification of the dimension of quantum…

One of the interesting topics in quantum contextuality is the construction for various non-contextual inequalities. By introducing a new structure called hyper-graph, we present a general method, which seems to be analytic and extensible,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 Weidong Tang , Sixia Yu

A theory is universal contextual if its prediction cannot be reproduced by an ontological model satisfying both preparation and measurement noncontextuality assumptions. In this report, we first generalize the logical proofs of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 A. K. Pan

We consider the contextual fraction as a quantitative measure of contextuality of empirical models, i.e. tables of probabilities of measurement outcomes in an experimental scenario. It provides a general way to compare the degree of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Samson Abramsky , Rui Soares Barbosa , Shane Mansfield

Contextuality can be understood as the impossibility to construct a globally consistent description of a model even if there is local agreement. In particular, quantum models present this property. We can describe contextuality with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-04 Sidiney B. Montanhano

We study the extraction of quantum coherence by three static Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors that interact locally with a massless scalar vacuum field in the vicinity of an infinite perfectly reflecting boundary. Depending on the setup, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Shu-Min Wu , Xiao-Ying Jiang , Xiang-Yue Yu , Zhihong Liu , Xiao-Li Huang

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

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

Studying the extent to which realism is compatible with quantum mechanics teaches us something about the quantum mechanical universe, regardless of the validity of such realistic assumptions. It has also recently been appreciated that these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-09-28 Nicholas Harrigan , Terry Rudolph

We analyze the harvesting of entanglement and classical correlations from the quantum vacuum to particle detectors. We assess the impact on the detectors' harvesting ability of the spacetime dimensionality, the suddenness of the detectors'…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

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

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

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