QUANTUM KALEIDOSCOPES AND BELL'S THEOREM

DOI10.1142/S0217979206034248MaRDI QIDQ5484201zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors P. K. Aravind

Publication date 24 August 2006

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508130

zbMATH Keywords

Bell's theoremfoundations of quantum mechanicsquantum kaleidoscopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

Abstract: A quantum kaleidoscope is defined as a set of observables, or states, consisting of many different subsets that provide closely related proofs of the Bell-Kochen-Specker (BKS) and Bell nonlocality theorems. The kaleidoscopes prove the BKS theorem through a simple parity argument, which also doubles as a proof of Bell's nonlocality theorem if use is made of the right sort of entanglement. Three closely related kaleidoscopes are introduced and discussed in this paper: a 15-observable kaleidoscope, a 24-state kaleidoscope and a 60-state kaleidoscope. The close relationship of these kaleidoscopes to a configuration of 12 points and 16 lines known as Reye's configuration is pointed out. The "rotations" needed to make each kaleidoscope yield all its apparitions are laid out. The 60-state kaleidoscope, whose underlying geometrical structure is that of ten interlinked Reye's configurations (together with their duals), possesses a total of 1120 apparitions that provide proofs of the two Bell theorems. Some applications of these kaleidoscopes to problems in quantum tomography and quantum state estimation are discussed.

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