QUANTUM KALEIDOSCOPES AND BELL'S THEOREM

DOI10.1142/S0217979206034248zbMATH Open1093.81515arXivquant-ph/0508130MaRDI QIDQ5484201FDOQ5484201

Authors: P. K. Aravind 

Publication date: 24 August 2006

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

Bell's theoremfoundations of quantum mechanicsquantum kaleidoscopes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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