Convexity of noncontextual wirings and how they order the set of correlations

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Main Authors: Santos, Tiago, Wagner, Rafael, Amaral, Bárbara
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Published: 2024
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author Santos, Tiago
Wagner, Rafael
Amaral, Bárbara
author_facet Santos, Tiago
Wagner, Rafael
Amaral, Bárbara
contents The resource theory of contextuality considers resourceful objects to be probabilistic data-tables, known as correlations or behaviors, that fail to have an explanation in terms of Kochen-Specker noncontextual models. In this work, we advance this resource theory, considering free operations to be noncontextual wirings (NCW). We show that all such wirings form a convex set. When restricted to Bell scenarios, we show that such wirings are not equivalent to local operations assisted by a common source of classical shared randomness (LOSR). The set of all NCW operations contains LOSR, but is strictly larger. We also prove several elementary facts about how different resources can be converted via NCW. As a concrete example, we show that there are pairs of behaviors that cannot be converted one into the other using NCW. Since resource conversion mathematically induces a pre-order over the set of all behaviors, our results reveal the intricate ordering induced by NCW in scenarios beyond Bell scenarios.
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spellingShingle Convexity of noncontextual wirings and how they order the set of correlations
Santos, Tiago
Wagner, Rafael
Amaral, Bárbara
Quantum Physics
The resource theory of contextuality considers resourceful objects to be probabilistic data-tables, known as correlations or behaviors, that fail to have an explanation in terms of Kochen-Specker noncontextual models. In this work, we advance this resource theory, considering free operations to be noncontextual wirings (NCW). We show that all such wirings form a convex set. When restricted to Bell scenarios, we show that such wirings are not equivalent to local operations assisted by a common source of classical shared randomness (LOSR). The set of all NCW operations contains LOSR, but is strictly larger. We also prove several elementary facts about how different resources can be converted via NCW. As a concrete example, we show that there are pairs of behaviors that cannot be converted one into the other using NCW. Since resource conversion mathematically induces a pre-order over the set of all behaviors, our results reveal the intricate ordering induced by NCW in scenarios beyond Bell scenarios.
title Convexity of noncontextual wirings and how they order the set of correlations
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02120