Pentagrams and paradoxes

DOI10.1007/S10701-010-9433-3MaRDI QIDQ2430433zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Piotr Badziąg, Ingemar Bengtsson, Adán Cabello, Helena Granström, Jan-Åke Larsson

Publication date 6 April 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0909.4713

zbMATH Keywords

Kochen-Speckermagical basis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13)

Abstract: Klyachko and coworkers consider an orthogonality graph in the form of a pentagram, and in this way derive a Kochen-Specker inequality for spin 1 systems. In some low-dimensional situations Hilbert spaces are naturally organised, by a magical choice of basis, into SO(N) orbits. Combining these ideas some very elegant results emerge. We give a careful discussion of the pentagram operator, and then show how the pentagram underlies a number of other quantum "paradoxes", such as that of Hardy.

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