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Main Authors: Liu, Zheng-Hao, Meng, Yu, Wu, Yu-Ze, Hao, Ze-Yan, Xu, Zhen-Peng, Ai, Cheng-Jun, Wei, Hai, Wen, Kai, Chen, Jing-Ling, Ma, Jie, Xu, Jin-Shi, Li, Chuan-Feng, Guo, Guang-Can
Format: Preprint
Published: 2022
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.07794
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  • 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 paradoxes are proofs of contextuality that reveal this incompatibility with deterministic logical arguments. However, the GHZ-type paradox whose events can be included in the fewest contexts and which brings the strongest nonclassicality remains elusive. Here, we derive a GHZ-type paradox with a context-cover number of three and show this number saturates the lower bound posed by quantum theory. We demonstrate the paradox with a time-domain fiber optical platform and recover the quantum prediction in a 37-dimensional setup based on high-speed modulation, convolution, and homodyne detection of time-multiplexed pulsed coherent light. By proposing and studying a strong form of contextuality in high-dimensional Hilbert space, our results pave the way for the exploration of exotic quantum correlations with time-multiplexed optical systems.