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 …

Kirkwood-Dirac representations beyond quantum states and their relation to noncontextuality

D Schmid, RD Baldijão, Y Yīng, R Wagner, JH Selby - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Kirkwood-Dirac representations of quantum states are increasingly finding use in many
areas within quantum theory. Usually, representations of this sort are only applied to provide …

An experimental test of noncontextuality without unphysical idealizations

MD Mazurek, MF Pusey, R Kunjwal, KJ Resch… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
To make precise the sense in which nature fails to respect classical physics, one requires a
formal notion of classicality. Ideally, such a notion should be defined operationally, so that it …

[HTML][HTML] Why interference phenomena do not capture the essence of quantum theory

L Catani, M Leifer, D Schmid, RW Spekkens - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
Quantum interference phenomena are widely viewed as posing a challenge to the classical
worldview. Feynman even went so far as to proclaim that they are the $\textit {only mystery} …

Aspects of the phenomenology of interference that are genuinely nonclassical

L Catani, M Leifer, G Scala, D Schmid, RW Spekkens - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
Interference phenomena are often claimed to resist classical explanation. However, such
claims are undermined by the fact that the specific aspects of the phenomenology upon …

Contextuality and inductive bias in quantum machine learning

J Bowles, VJ Wright, M Farkas, N Killoran… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Generalisation in machine learning often relies on the ability to encode structures present in
data into an inductive bias of the model class. To understand the power of quantum machine …

Anomalous weak values and contextuality: Robustness, tightness, and imaginary parts

R Kunjwal, M Lostaglio, MF Pusey - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Weak values are quantities accessed through quantum experiments involving weak
measurements and postselection. It has been shown that “anomalous” weak values (those …

Quantum fluctuation theorems, contextuality, and work quasiprobabilities

M Lostaglio - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
We discuss the role of contextuality within quantum fluctuation theorems, in the light of a
recent no-go result by Perarnau-Llobet et al. We show that any fluctuation theorem …

Characterization of noncontextuality in the framework of generalized probabilistic theories

D Schmid, JH Selby, E Wolfe, R Kunjwal… - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
To make precise the sense in which the operational predictions of quantum theory conflict
with a classical worldview, it is necessary to articulate a notion of classicality within an …