Ontological models, preparation contextuality and nonlocality

Abstract

The ontological model framework for an operational theory has generated much interest in recent years. The debate concerning reality of quantum states has been made more precise in this framework. With the introduction of generalized notion of contextuality in this framework, it has been shown that completely mixed state of a qubit is \emph{preparation contextual}. Interestingly, this new idea of preparation contextuality has been used to demonstrate nonlocality of some $\psi$-epistemic models without any use of Bell's inequality. In particular, nonlocality of a non maximally $\psi$-epistemic model has been demonstrated from preparation contextuality of a maximally mixed qubit and Schrödinger's steerability of the maximally entangled state of two qubits [Phys. Rev. Lett {\bf 110}, 120401 (2013)]. In this paper, we, show that any mixed state is preparation contextual. We, then, show that nonlocality of any bipartite pure entangled state, with Schmidt rank two, follows from preparation contextuality and steerability provided we impose certain condition on the epistemicity of the underlying ontological model. More interestingly, if the pure entangled state is of Schmidt rank greater than two, its nonlocality follows without any further condition on the epistemicity. Thus our result establishes a stronger connection between nonlocality and preparation contextuality by revealing nonlocality of any bipartite pure entangled states without any use of Bell-type inequality.

Accepted in Foundations of Physics (close to accepted version). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:quant-ph/0406166 by other authors

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