Recent advances in contextuality tests

DOI10.1142/S1230161216500098MaRDI QIDQ2816980zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jayne Thompson, Paweł Kurzyński, Su-Yong Lee, Akihito Soeda, Dagomir Kaszlikowski

Publication date 26 August 2016

Published in Open Systems \& Information Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.1292

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13)

Abstract: Our everyday experiences support the hypothesis that physical systems exist independently of the act of observation. Concordant theories are characterized by the objective realism assumption whereby the act of measurement simply reveals preexisting well defined elements of reality. In stark contrast quantum mechanics portrays a world in which reality loses its objectivity and is in fact created by observation. Quantum contextuality as first discovered by Bell [Rev. Mod. Phys. 38, 447 (1966)] and Kochen-Specker [J. Math. Mech. 17, 59 (1967)] captures aspects of this philosophical clash between classical and quantum descriptions of the world. Here we briefly summarize some of the more recent advances in the field of quantum contextuality. We approach quantum contextuality through its close relation to Bell type nonlocal scenarios and highlight some of the rapidly developing tests and experimental implementations.

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