Kochen-specker contextuality

C Budroni, A Cabello, O Gühne, M Kleinmann… - Reviews of Modern …, 2022 - APS
A central result in the foundations of quantum mechanics is the Kochen-Specker theorem. In
short, it states that quantum mechanics is in conflict with classical models in which the result …

Experimental certification of contextuality, coherence, and dimension in a programmable universal photonic processor

T Giordani, R Wagner, C Esposito, A Camillini… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Quantum superposition of high-dimensional states enables both computational speed-up
and security in cryptographic protocols. However, the exponential complexity of tomographic …

Exploring the boundary of quantum correlations with a time-domain optical processor

ZH Liu, Y Meng, YZ Wu, ZY Hao, ZP Xu, CJ Ai… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
Contextuality is a hallmark feature of the quantum theory that captures its incompatibility with
any noncontextual hidden-variable model. The Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ)–type …

Optimal and tight Bell inequalities for state-independent contextuality sets

JR Gonzales-Ureta, A Predojević, A Cabello - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
Two fundamental quantum resources, nonlocality and contextuality, can be connected
through Bell inequalities that are violated by state-independent contextuality (SI-C) sets …

Characterizing high-dimensional quantum contextuality

XD Yu, I Veeren, O Gühne - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
As a phenomenon encompassing measurement incompatibility and Bell nonlocality,
quantum contextuality is not only central to our understanding of quantum mechanics, but …

Noisy intermediate-scale quantum algorithm for semidefinite programming

K Bharti, T Haug, V Vedral, LC Kwek - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
Semidefinite programs (SDPs) are convex optimization programs with vast applications in
control theory, quantum information, combinatorial optimization, and operational research …

Experimental test of high-dimensional quantum contextuality based on contextuality concentration

ZH Liu, HX Meng, ZP Xu, J Zhou, JL Chen, JS Xu… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Contextuality is a distinctive feature of quantum theory and a fundamental resource for
quantum computation. However, existing examples of contextuality in high-dimensional …

Quantum-inspired hierarchy for rank-constrained optimization

XD Yu, T Simnacher, HC Nguyen, O Gühne - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Many problems in information theory can be reduced to optimizations over matrices, where
the rank of the matrices is constrained. We establish a link between rank-constrained …

Local contextuality-based self-tests are sufficient for randomness expansion secure against quantum adversaries

J Singh, C Foreman, K Bharti, A Cabello - arxiv preprint arxiv:2409.20082, 2024 - arxiv.org
In quantum cryptography, secure randomness expansion involves using a short private
string of random bits to generate a longer one, even in the presence of an adversary who …

Graph-theoretic approach for self-testing in bell scenarios

K Bharti, M Ray, ZP Xu, M Hayashi, LC Kwek… - PRX Quantum, 2022 - APS
Self-testing is a technology to certify states and measurements using only the statistics of the
experiment. Self-testing is possible if some extremal points in the set BQ of quantum …