Simple unified proof of state-independent contextuality

by Adan Cabello

Tuesday 20 Dec 2011, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

Aula 8 (Dipartimento di Fisica - Ed. E. Fermi)

For years, the statement that quantum mechanics exhibits state-independent contextuality (SIC) has been based on a mathematical result pointed out by Kochen and Specker (KS) and Bell: the existence of the so-called KS sets. Recently, Yu and Oh have observed that KS sets are not necessary to prove SIC. Here we provides a simple unified characterization of all SIC proofs and discuss the experimental implications of this result.