Impossibility Theorem for Extending Contextuality to Disturbing Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06976v1
• Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 01:54:28 GMT
• Title: Impossibility Theorem for Extending Contextuality to Disturbing Systems
• Authors: Alisson Tezzin, Elie Wolfe, Barbara Amaral, Matt Jones
• Abstract summary: We prove that extending the definition of contextuality to systems with disturbance cannot simultaneously satisfy the following core principles of contextuality. We also prove the same result without Principle 3, under the stronger version of Principle 4. Our results hold for restricted extensions of contextuality that apply only to systems of binary observables.
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• Abstract: Recently there has been interest, and impressive progress, in extending the definition of contextuality to systems with disturbance. We prove here that such an endeavor cannot simultaneously satisfy the following core principles of contextuality: (1) Measuring more information cannot change a contextual system to a noncontextual one. (2) Classical post-processing cannot create contextuality: appending new observables that are functions of given observables cannot change a noncontextual system to a contextual one. (3) The joint realization of two statistically independent noncontextual systems is noncontextual. (4) Determinism cannot create contextuality: Any deterministic system is noncontextual, and adding deterministic observables to a noncontextual system cannot yield a contextual one. We also prove the same result without Principle 3, under the stronger version of Principle 4. Moreover, our results hold for restricted extensions of contextuality that apply only to systems of binary observables. In addition to these proofs, we analyze several particular proposals and identify which of our axioms they obey and which they violate.

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