The Exclusivity Principle and the Set of Quantum Correlations
arXiv:1502.03235
Abstract
The most promising candidate for being the fundamental principle of quantum contextuality is the Exclusivity principle, which states that the sum of the probabilities of a set of pairwise exclusive events cannot exceed 1. By itself, the Exclusivity principle singles out the maximum quantum value for some important Bell and noncontextuality inequalities. We can get better results if we apply the E principle to more sophisticated scenarios. This happens because this principle exhibits activation effects: a distribution satisfying this principles does not necessarily satisfy it when combined with other distributions. Activation effects can be used to prove that the Exclusivity principle singles out the set of quantum distributions for the most simple noncontextuality inequality. It is still not known if the exclusivity principle solves the problem of explaining quantum contextuality completely, but many results have been proven that support the conjecture that it might. The main purpose of this thesis is to discuss in detail the situations in which the E principle can be used to rule out distributions outside the quantum set.
PHD Thesis, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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