Separability, contextuality, and the quantum frame problem

DOI10.1007/S10773-023-05406-9zbMATH Open1530.81015arXiv2304.10010OpenAlexW4385381413MaRDI QIDQ6169996FDOQ6169996

Authors: Chris Fields, James F. Glazebrook 

Publication date: 15 August 2023

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

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.

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

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zbMATH Keywords

measurementMarkov blanketundecidabilityquantum reference frameGödel's theoremtask environmentcone-cocone diagram

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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