Using a resource theoretic perspective to witness and engineer quantum generalized contextuality for prepare-and-measure scenarios

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AD0BCCarXiv2102.10469OpenAlexW3131403482MaRDI QIDQ6148261FDOQ6148261

Authors: Barbara Amaral 

Publication date: 11 January 2024

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We use the resource theory framework of generalized contextuality as a tool for analyzing the structure of prepare-and-measure scenarios. We argue that this framework is capable of simplifying proofs for witnessing quantum contextuality and straightens known arguments regarding the robustness of experimental implementations thereof. As a case study, we witness quantum contextuality associated with any nontrivial noncontextuality inequality for a class of scenarios by noticing a connection between the resource theory and measurement simulability. We also expose a rule for composing behaviours that allows one to build complex scenarios from simpler ones, which provides an explanation of the non-contextual polytope structure for complex scenarios and facilitates finding possible quantum violations. In particular, we show that the state-dependent cloning scenario inherits contextuality from a simpler scenario, and we engineer a complex prepare-and-measure scenario that has quantum contextual violations for any noncontextuality inequality. Witnessing contextuality from the abstract formalism of resource theories represents a potential new framework for demonstrating quantum-over-classical advantages for practical tasks.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.10469

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum informationmeasurement simulabilitygeneralized contextualityprepare-and-measure scenarios

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum algorithms and complexity in the theory of computing (68Q12) Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12) Simulation of dynamical systems (37M05) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45)

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