Multipartite composition of contextuality scenarios

DOI10.1007/S10701-018-0168-XzbMATH Open1411.81049arXiv1701.05171OpenAlexW3099053060WikidataQ62576462 ScholiaQ62576462MaRDI QIDQ1735897FDOQ1735897

Authors: A. B. Sainz, Elie Wolfe 

Publication date: 29 March 2019

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Contextuality is a particular quantum phenomenon that has no analogue in classical probability theory. Given two independent systems, a natural question is how to represent such a situation as a single test space. In other words, how separate contextuality scenarios combine into a joint scenario. Under the premise that the the allowed probabilistic models satisfy the No Signalling principle, Foulis and Randall defined the unique possible way to compose two contextuality scenarios. When composing strictly-more than two test spaces, however, a variety of possible composition methods have been conceived. Nevertheless, all these formally-distinct composition methods appear to give rise to observationally equivalent scenarios, in the sense that the different compositions all allow precisely the same sets of classical and quantum probabilistic models. This raises the question of whether this property of invariance-under-composition-method is special to classical and quantum probabilistic models, or if it generalizes to other probabilistic models as well, our particular focus being $mathcal{Q}_1$ models. $mathcal{Q}_1$ models are physically important since, when applied to scenarios constructed by a particular composition rule, coincide with the well-defined "Almost Quantum Correlations". In this work we see that some composition rules, however, give rise to scenarios with inequivalent allowed sets of $mathcal{Q}_1$ models. We find that the non-trivial dependence of $mathcal{Q}_1$ models on the choice of composition method is apparently an artifact of failure of those composition rules to capture the orthogonality relations given by the Local Orthogonality principle. We prove that $mathcal{Q}_1$ models satisfy invariance-under-composition-method for all the constructive compositions protocols which do capture this notion of Local Orthogonality.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.05171

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zbMATH Keywords

Bell nonlocalityquantum foundationscontextualityquantum theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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