18–23 Aug 2014
Nordita, Stockholm
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Quantum correlations: when, how and why?

23 Aug 2014, 11:30
30m
Svedbergsalen (FD5) (Nordita, Stockholm)

Svedbergsalen (FD5)

Nordita, Stockholm

Speaker

Prof. Adan Cabello (University of Seville, Spain)

Description

Abstract: In classical physics, any set of observables is jointly measurable. In contrast, any graph in which nodes represent observables and edges represent joint measurability is realizable in quantum theory. Moreover, correlations between quantum measurements violate some Bell and noncontextuality inequalities satisfied by theories in which observables are all jointly measurable. Remarkably, quantum violations occur only for some inequalities and only up to specific limits. Here we use a recently introduced approach to answer three questions that are important to understand quantum theory: (i) Which inequalities are violated? (ii) Which violations are possible? (iii) Why?

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