Generalized Robustness of Contextuality
Hui-Xian Meng, Huaixin Cao, Wenhua Wang +2 more
Motivated by the importance of contextuality and a work on the robustness of the entanglement of mixed quantum states, the robustness of contextuality (RoC) R C ( e ) of an empirical model e against non-contextual noises was introduced and discussed in Science China Physics, Mechanics and Astronomy (59(4) and 59(9), 2016). Because noises are not always non-contextual, this paper introduces and discusses the generalized robustness of contextuality (GRoC) R g ( e ) of an empirical model e against general noises. It is proven that R g ( e ) = 0 if and only if e is non-contextual. This means that the quantity R g can be used to distinguish contextual empirical models from non-contextual ones. It is also shown that the function R g is convex on the set of all empirical models and continuous on the set of all no-signaling empirical models. For any two empirical models e and f such that the generalized relative robustness of e with respect to f is finite, a fascinating relationship between the GRoCs of e and f is proven, which reads R g ( e ) R g ( f ) ≤ 1 . Lastly, for any n-cycle contextual box e, a relationship between the GRoC R g ( e ) and the extent Δ e of violating the non-contextual inequalities is established.
Entropy•Sep 1, 2016•7 citations