Corrected Bell and Noncontextuality Inequalities for Realistic Experiments

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Vallée, Kim, Emeriau, Pierre-Emmanuel, Bourdoncle, Boris, Sohbi, Adel, Mansfield, Shane, Markham, Damian
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2023
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866911991031922688
author Vallée, Kim
Emeriau, Pierre-Emmanuel
Bourdoncle, Boris
Sohbi, Adel
Mansfield, Shane
Markham, Damian
author_facet Vallée, Kim
Emeriau, Pierre-Emmanuel
Bourdoncle, Boris
Sohbi, Adel
Mansfield, Shane
Markham, Damian
contents Contextuality is a feature of quantum correlations. It is crucial from a foundational perspective as a nonclassical phenomenon, and from an applied perspective as a resource for quantum advantage. It is commonly defined in terms of hidden variables, for which it forces a contradiction with the assumptions of parameter-independence and determinism. The former can be justified by the empirical property of non-signalling or non-disturbance, and the latter by the empirical property of measurement sharpness. However, in realistic experiments neither empirical property holds exactly, which leads to possible objections to contextuality as a form of nonclassicality, and potential vulnerabilities for supposed quantum advantages. We introduce measures to quantify both properties, and introduce quantified relaxations of the corresponding assumptions. We prove the continuity of a known measure of contextuality, the contextual fraction, which ensures its robustness to noise. We then bound the extent to which these relaxations can account for contextuality, via corrections terms to the contextual fraction (or to any noncontextuality inequality), culminating in a notion of genuine contextuality, which is robust to experimental imperfections. We then show that our result is general enough to apply or relate to a variety of established results and experimental setups.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2310_19383
institution arXiv
publishDate 2023
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Corrected Bell and Noncontextuality Inequalities for Realistic Experiments
Vallée, Kim
Emeriau, Pierre-Emmanuel
Bourdoncle, Boris
Sohbi, Adel
Mansfield, Shane
Markham, Damian
Quantum Physics
Contextuality is a feature of quantum correlations. It is crucial from a foundational perspective as a nonclassical phenomenon, and from an applied perspective as a resource for quantum advantage. It is commonly defined in terms of hidden variables, for which it forces a contradiction with the assumptions of parameter-independence and determinism. The former can be justified by the empirical property of non-signalling or non-disturbance, and the latter by the empirical property of measurement sharpness. However, in realistic experiments neither empirical property holds exactly, which leads to possible objections to contextuality as a form of nonclassicality, and potential vulnerabilities for supposed quantum advantages. We introduce measures to quantify both properties, and introduce quantified relaxations of the corresponding assumptions. We prove the continuity of a known measure of contextuality, the contextual fraction, which ensures its robustness to noise. We then bound the extent to which these relaxations can account for contextuality, via corrections terms to the contextual fraction (or to any noncontextuality inequality), culminating in a notion of genuine contextuality, which is robust to experimental imperfections. We then show that our result is general enough to apply or relate to a variety of established results and experimental setups.
title Corrected Bell and Noncontextuality Inequalities for Realistic Experiments
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.19383