Published February 20, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Form of contextuality predicting probabilistic equivalence between two sets of three mutually noncommuting observables

  • 1. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Technická 2, CZ-166 27 Prague 6, Czech Republic
  • 2. Institute for Theoretical Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/136, 1040 Vienna, Austria

Description

We introduce a contextual quantum system comprising mutually complementary observables organized into two or more collections of pseudocontexts with the same probability sums of outcomes. These pseudocontexts constitute nonorthogonal bases within the Hilbert space, featuring a state-independent sum of probabilities. In other words, regardless of the initial-state preparation, the total probability remains constant but may be distinct from unity. The measurement contextuality in this setup arises from the quantum realizations of the hypergraph, which adhere to a specific bound on the linear combination of probabilities. In contrast, classical realizations can surpass this bound. The violation of quantum bounds stems from the inability of classical ontological models, specifically the set-theoretic representation of the hypergraph corresponding to the quantum observables' collections, to adhere to and explain the observed statistics.

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.109.022222;
arXiv
arXiv:2309.13091;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100002428; 10.13039/501100001824;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review A
Journal Volume
109
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
18 pgs.
ISSN
1094-1622

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Contract/Grant/Project number
I 4579-N; 20-09869L
Notes
Contact Email: navara@fel.cvut.cz; <a href="https://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~navara">https://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~navara</a>; Contact Email: karl.svozil@tuwien.ac.at; <a href="http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~svozil">http://tph.tuwien.ac.at/~svozil</a>; Record automatically processed
Funding organization
Austrian Science Fund; Grantová Agentura České Republiky