Is there contextuality for a single qubit?

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作者
Grudka, Andrzej [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Kurzynski, Pawel [4 ]
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[1] Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Fac Phys, PL-61614 Poznan, Poland
[2] Univ Gdansk, Inst Theoret Phys & Astrophys, PL-80952 Gdansk, Poland
[3] Natl Quantum Informat Ctr Gdansk, PL-81824 Sopot, Poland
[4] Adam Mickiewicz Univ, Fac Phys, PL-61614 Poznan, Poland
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.160401
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O4 [物理学];
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Cabello and Nakamura have shown [A. Cabello, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 190401 (2003)] that the Kochen-Specker theorem can be applied to two-dimensional systems if one uses positive operator-valued measures (POVM). We show that the contextuality in their models is not of the Kochen-Specker type, but it is rather a result of not keeping track of the whole system on which the measurement is performed. This is connected to the fact that there is no one-to-one correspondence between the POVM elements and projectors on the extended Hilbert space, and the same POVM element has to originate from two different projectors when used in Cabello-Nakamura models. Moreover, we propose a hidden-variable formulation of the above models.
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