Probabilistic generation of quantum contextual sets

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2011.07.050MaRDI QIDQ691915zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Norman D. Megill, Krešimir Fresl, Mordecai Waegell, P. K. Aravind, Mladen Pavičić

Publication date 4 December 2012

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.1840

zbMATH Keywords

600-cellKochen-Specker setsMMP hypergraphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Quantum computation (81P68) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13)

Abstract: We give a method for exhaustive generation of a huge number of Kochen-Specker contextual sets, based on the 600-cell, for possible experiments and quantum gates. The method is complementary to our previous parity proof generation of these sets, and it gives all sets while the parity proof method gives only sets with an odd number of edges in their hypergraph representation. Thus we obtain 35 new kinds of critical KS sets with an even number of edges. Using a random sample of the sets generated with our method, we give a statistical estimate of the number of sets that might be obtained in an eventual exhaustive enumeration.

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