Experimentally testable state-independent quantum contextuality.

We show that there are Bell-type inequalities for noncontextual theories that are violated by any quantum state. One of these inequalities between the correlations of compatible measurements is particularly suitable for testing this state-independent violation in an experiment.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Physical Review Letters

• Publication date

  2008-08-18

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Physics

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.210401arXiv 0808.2456PMID 19113394
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