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Since Bell's theorem, it is known that the concept of local realism fails to explain quantum phenomena. Indeed, the violation of a Bell inequality has become a synonym of the incompatibility of quantum theory with our classical notion of…

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

Bell scenarios are multipartite scenarios that exclude any communication between parties. This constraint leads to a strict hierarchy of correlation sets in such scenarios, namely, classical, quantum, and nonsignaling. However, without any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Ravi Kunjwal , Ognyan Oreshkov

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…

We address the problem of deriving the set of quantum correlations for every Bell and Kochen-Specker (KS) contextuality scenario from simple assumptions. We show that the correlations that are possible according to quantum theory are equal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-26 Adán Cabello

Contextuality is a fundamental feature of quantum theory and a necessary resource for quantum computation and communication. It is therefore important to investigate how large contextuality can be in quantum theory. Linear contextuality…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 Barbara Amaral , Marcelo Terra Cunha , Adán Cabello

Non-classical correlations between measurement results make entanglement the essence of quantum physics and the main resource for quantum information applications. Surprisingly, there are $n$-particle states which do not exhibit $n$-partite…

Agreement theorems are no-go results about rational disagreement: if two agents start from a common prior and their posterior beliefs are common knowledge, they cannot assign different probabilities to the same event. Standard treatments of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Carlo Cepollaro , Andrea Di Biagio

We show that, for any n, there are m-outcome quantum correlations, with m>n, which are stronger than any nonsignaling correlation produced from selecting among n-outcome measurements. As a consequence, for any n, there are m-outcome quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Matthias Kleinmann , Adan Cabello

In order to claim that one has experimentally tested whether a noncontextual ontological model could underlie certain measurement statistics in quantum theory, it is necessary to have a notion of noncontextuality that applies to unsharp…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 Robert W. Spekkens

We give a new definition of self-testing for correlations in terms of states on $C^*$-algebras. We show that this definition is equivalent to the standard definition for any class of finite-dimensional quantum models which is closed,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Connor Paddock , William Slofstra , Yuming Zhao , Yangchen Zhou

We discuss the role of contextuality within quantum fluctuation theorems, in the light of a recent no-go result by Perarnau \emph{et al}. We show that any fluctuation theorem reproducing the two-point-measurement scheme for classical states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-26 Matteo Lostaglio

Macroscopic quantum effects play central roles in the appearance of inexplicable phenomena in low-temperature quantum many-body physics. Such macroscopic quantumness is often evaluated using long-range entanglement, i.e., entanglement in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-29 Tomotaka Kuwahara , Keiji Saito

It is known that the global state of a composite quantum system can be completely determined by specifying correlations between measurements performed on subsystems only. Despite the fact that the quantum correlations thus suffice to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Seevinck

We discuss quantum non-locality and contextuality using the notion of transition sets. This approach provides a way to obtain a direct logical contradiction with locality/non-contextuality in the EPRB gedanken experiment as well as a clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-19 Hans Westman

It is well-known that in a Bell experiment, the observed correlation between measurement outcomes -- as predicted by quantum theory -- can be stronger than that allowed by local causality, yet not fully constrained by the principle of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-15 Pei-Sheng Lin , Tamás Vértesi , Yeong-Cherng Liang

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

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…

The results of space-like separated measurements are independent of distant measurement settings, a property one might call two-way no-signalling. In contrast, time-like separated measurements are only one-way no-signalling since the past…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Stephen Brierley , Adrian Kosowski , Marcin Markiewicz , Tomasz Paterek , Anna Przysiezna

The existence of incompatibility is one of the most fundamental features of quantum theory, and can be found at the core of many of the theory's distinguishing features, such as Bell inequality violations and the no-broadcasting theorem. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Sergey N. Filippov , Teiko Heinosaari , Leevi Leppäjärvi