Separability, contextuality, and the quantum frame problem

DOI10.1007/S10773-023-05406-9MaRDI QIDQ6169996zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Chris Fields, James F. Glazebrook

Publication date 15 August 2023

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.10010

zbMATH Keywords

cone-cocone diagramGödel's theoremMarkov blanketmeasurementquantum reference frametask environmentundecidability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Undecidability and degrees of sets of sentences (03D35) Gödel numberings and issues of incompleteness (03F40) Frames, locales (06D22) Ergodic theorems, spectral theory, Markov operators (37A30) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum state tomography, quantum state discrimination (81P18) Entanglement measures, concurrencies, separability criteria (81P42)

Abstract: We study the relationship between assumptions of state separability and both preparation and measurement contextuality, and the relationship of both of these to the frame problem, the problem of predicting what does not change in consequence of an action. We state a quantum analog of the latter and prove its undecidability. We show how contextuality is generically induced in state preparation and measurement by basis choice, thermodynamic exchange, and the imposition of a priori causal models, and how fine-tuning assumptions appear ubiquitously in settings characterized as non-contextual.

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