Probabilistic models on contextuality scenarios

Tobias Fritz
(Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
Anthony Leverrier
(INRIA Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex, France)
Ana Belén Sainz
(ICFO–Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, E-08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain)

We introduce a framework to describe probabilistic models in Bell experiments, and more generally in contextuality scenarios. Such a scenario is a hypergraph whose vertices represent elementary events and hyperedges correspond to measurements. A probabilistic model on such a scenario associates to each event a probability, in such a way that events in a given measurement have a total probability equal to one. We discuss the advantages of this framework, like the unification of the notions of contexuality and nonlocality, and give a short overview of results obtained elsewhere.

In Bob Coecke and Matty Hoban: Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2013), Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain, 17th to 19th July 2013, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 171, pp. 63–70.
Published: 27th December 2014.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.171.6 bibtex PDF
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