Contextuality for preparations, transformations, and unsharp measurements

Details Contextuality for preparations, transformations, and unsharp measurements Contextuality for preparations, transformations, and unsharp measurements

2004-06-23

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0406166v3

Phys. Rev. A 71, 052108 (2005)

Physics

Quantum Physics

16 pages, REVTEX, comments welcome

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.71.052108

An operational definition of contextuality is introduced which generalizes the standard notion in three ways: (1) it applies to arbitrary operational theories rather than just quantum theory, (2) it applies to arbitrary experimental procedures, rather than just sharp measurements, and (3) it applies to a broad class of ontological models of quantum theory, rather than just deterministic hidden variable models. We derive three no-go theorems for ontological models, each based on an assumption of noncontextuality for a different sort of experimental procedure; one for preparation procedures, another for unsharp measurement procedures (that is, measurement procedures associated with positive-operator valued measures), and a third for transformation procedures. All three proofs apply to two-dimensional Hilbert spaces, and are therefore stronger than traditional proofs of contextuality.

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