An Operational Quantum Information Framework for Experimental Studies on Color Perception
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| author | Leporini, Roberto Provenzi, Edoardo Berthier, Michel |
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| contents | Starting from the foundational axiomatization of the perceptual color space initiated by Schrödinger in 1920 and eventually refined by Resnikoff in 1974, Berthier, Provenzi and their collaborators have recently proposed a reformulation of perceptual color attributes within the framework of quantum information. Their work is based on the Jordan algebra formalism of quantum theories and, more specifically, on a quantum system described by a spin factor over the field of real numbers. This theoretical framework is not that of ordinary quantum mechanics, mainly because it requires dealing with rebits, whereas the latter uses qubits. The aim of this paper is to show that this difference in no way hinders the implementation of experimental protocols for testing the validity of the predictions of the color perception model. In particular, we show how to compute the quantum information based perceptual attributes of perceived colors in terms of qubit density matrices. |
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| spellingShingle | An Operational Quantum Information Framework for Experimental Studies on Color Perception Leporini, Roberto Provenzi, Edoardo Berthier, Michel Neurons and Cognition Mathematical Physics Physics and Society Quantum Physics Starting from the foundational axiomatization of the perceptual color space initiated by Schrödinger in 1920 and eventually refined by Resnikoff in 1974, Berthier, Provenzi and their collaborators have recently proposed a reformulation of perceptual color attributes within the framework of quantum information. Their work is based on the Jordan algebra formalism of quantum theories and, more specifically, on a quantum system described by a spin factor over the field of real numbers. This theoretical framework is not that of ordinary quantum mechanics, mainly because it requires dealing with rebits, whereas the latter uses qubits. The aim of this paper is to show that this difference in no way hinders the implementation of experimental protocols for testing the validity of the predictions of the color perception model. In particular, we show how to compute the quantum information based perceptual attributes of perceived colors in terms of qubit density matrices. |
| title | An Operational Quantum Information Framework for Experimental Studies on Color Perception |
| topic | Neurons and Cognition Mathematical Physics Physics and Society Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00132 |