Contextuality as the Key to understand Quantum Paradoxes

Abstract

This short note is an introduction to the slides from our talks given in 2018 during the Advanced School of Quantum Foundations and Quantum Computation in Joao Pessoa , Brazil. In these talks, addressed to participants with a limited knowledge of quantum foundations, we defined locality, causality, randomness, counterfactual definiteness and we explained EPR-Bohm paradoxes. In particular we discussed in great detail various Bell-type inequalities and the implications of their violation in spin polarisation correlation experiments. Finally we explained why and how the predictive completeness of quantum mechanics may be tested by more careful examination of the time-series of experimental data

arXiv comment31 pages, introduction + 137 slides included. 68 references

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