Proposed test of macroscopic quantum contextuality
Abstract
We show that, for any system with a number of levels which can be identified with n qubits, there is an inequality for the correlations between three compatible dichotomic measurements which must be satisfied by any noncontextual theory, but is violated by any quantum state. Remarkably, the violation grows exponentially with n, and the tolerated error per correlation also increases with n, showing that state-independent quantum contextuality is experimentally observable in complex systems.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- September 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.032110
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1002.3135
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhRvA..82c2110C
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.Ta;
- 03.65.Ud;
- 42.50.Xa;
- Foundations of quantum mechanics;
- measurement theory;
- Entanglement and quantum nonlocality;
- Optical tests of quantum theory;
- Quantum Physics
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