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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…

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Quantum cognition often explains order effects, contextuality, and violations of the law of total probability by replacing classical probability with quantum probability on a fixed event structure. This paper proposes a different…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Song-Ju Kim

Contextuality has been conjectured to be a super-classical resource for quantum computation, analogous to the role of non-locality as a super-classical resource for communication. We show that the presence of contextuality places a lower…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 Angela Karanjai , Joel J. Wallman , Stephen D. Bartlett

The simulation of quantum effects requires certain classical resources, and quantifying them is an important step in order to characterize the difference between quantum and classical physics. For a simulation of the phenomenon of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Matthias Kleinmann , Otfried Gühne , José R. Portillo , Jan-Åke Larsson , Adán Cabello

We introduce a hierarchy of semidefinite relaxations of the set of quantum correlations in generalised contextuality scenarios. This constitutes a simple and versatile tool for bounding the magnitude of quantum contextuality. To illustrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-07 Armin Tavakoli , Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro , Roope Uola , Alastair A. Abbott

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

Contextuality is a fundamental non-classical property of quantum theory, which has recently been proven to be a key resource for achieving quantum speed-ups in some leading models of quantum computation. However, which of the forms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Piers Lillystone , Joel J. Wallman , Joseph Emerson

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

Contextuality is a feature of quantum correlations. It is crucial from a foundational perspective as a nonclassical phenomenon, and from an applied perspective as a resource for quantum advantage. It is commonly defined in terms of hidden…

Contextuality is a key distinguishing feature between classical and quantum physics. It expresses a fundamental obstruction to describing quantum theory using classical concepts. In turn, understood as a resource for quantum computation, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Markus Frembs

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

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 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 introduce a contextual quantum system comprising mutually complementary observables organized into two or more collections of pseudocontexts with the same probability sums of outcomes. These pseudocontexts constitute non-orthogonal bases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-05 Mirko Navara , Karl Svozil

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

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

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

Contextuality, a generalization of non-locality, has been proposed as the resource that provides the computational speed-up for quantum computation. For universal quantum computation using qudits, of odd-prime dimension, contextuality has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Piers Lillystone , Joseph Emerson

Classical machine learning models struggle with learning and prediction tasks on data sets exhibiting long-range correlations. Previously, the existence of a long-range correlational structure known as contextuality was shown to inhibit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Mariesa H. Teo , Willers Yang , James Sud , Teague Tomesh , Frederic T. Chong , Eric R. Anschuetz

Contextuality is central to both the foundations of quantum theory and to the novel information processing tasks. Although it was recognized before Bell's nonlocality, despite some recent proposals, it still faces a fundamental problem: how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 A. Grudka , K. Horodecki , M. Horodecki , P. Horodecki , R. Horodecki , P. Joshi , W. Kłobus , A. Wójcik
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