Connecting Quantum Contextuality and Nonlocality
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23221v1
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:01:56 GMT
- Title: Connecting Quantum Contextuality and Nonlocality
- Authors: Jianqi Sheng, Dongkai Zhang, Lixiang Chen,
- Abstract summary: Quantum theory departs from classical physics in its treatment of correlations, most prominently through the phenomena of contextuality and nonlocality.<n>Recent theoretical and experimental advances have revealed deep conceptual, mathematical, and operational connections between them.<n>This review presents a unified perspective on these developments based on sheaf-theoretic and graph-theoretic frameworks.
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- Abstract: Quantum theory departs from classical physics in its treatment of correlations, most prominently through the phenomena of contextuality and nonlocality. Once regarded primarily as foundational curiosities, these effects are now understood as key operational resources for quantum computation, communication, and simulation. Although traditionally investigated in distinct settings, recent theoretical and experimental advances have revealed deep conceptual, mathematical, and operational connections between them. This review presents a unified perspective on these developments based on sheaf-theoretic and graph-theoretic frameworks, which provide theory-independent characterizations of statistical correlations. These approaches clarify the structural relationship between contextuality and nonlocality, facilitate the formulation of experimentally testable inequalities, and guide implementations in realistic physical platforms, with particular emphasis on photonic systems. By bridging abstract theoretical structures and concrete experimental realizations, this review sheds light on the nonclassical foundations of quantum correlations and their emerging role in quantum technologies.
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