Classifying space for quantum contextuality

DOI10.1007/S00023-020-00993-3MaRDI QIDQ2223559zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Cihan Okay, Daniel Sheinbaum

Publication date 29 January 2021

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.07723

zbMATH Keywords

contextualitytwisted \(K\)-theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Microlocal methods and methods of sheaf theory and homological algebra applied to PDEs (35A27) PDEs in connection with quantum mechanics (35Q40) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13)

Abstract: We construct a topological space to study contextuality in quantum mechanics. The resulting space is a classifying space in the sense of algebraic topology. Cohomological invariants of our space correspond to physical quantities relevant to the study of contextuality. Within this framework the Wigner function of a quantum state can be interpreted as a class in the twisted $K$-theory of the classifying space.

Review text

This article is about contextuality as motivated by quantum mechanics. The present work aims to extend the work in [\textit{C. Okay} et al., ``Topological proofs of contextuality in quantum mechanics, Quantum Inf. Comput. 17, 1135--1166 (2017)]. Indeed, the authors here consider a topological space, a so-called classifying space, to give the framework needed to study contextuality. In the setting of sheaf cohomology and Čech cohomology, the authors identify two classes of the classifying space, a cohomology class in the second cohomology group and a \(K\)-theory class in a twisted \(K\)-group. Invariants in the classification space offer the property that, through the use of Wigner functions, quantum states correspond to a class in the twisted \(K\)-theory.

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