Necessary conditions for extended noncontextuality in general sets of random variables

DOI10.1063/1.5024885MaRDI QIDQ4583102zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Barbara Amaral, Cristhiano Duarte, Roberto I. Oliveira

Publication date 27 August 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01318

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of graph theory (05C90) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13)

Abstract: We explore the graph approach to contextuality to restate the extended definition of noncontextuality as given by J. Kujala et. al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 150401 (2015)] using graph-theoretical terms. This extended definition avoids the assumption of the pre-sheaf or non-disturbance condition, which states that if two contexts overlap, then the marginal distribution obtained for the intersection must be the same, a restriction that will never be perfectly satisfied in real experiments. With this we are able to derive necessary conditions for extended noncontextuality for any set of random variables based on the geometrical aspects of the graph approach, which can be tested directly with experimental data in any contextuality experiment and which reduce to traditional necessary conditions for noncontextuality if the non-disturbance condition is satisfied.

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