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Operational exploration of quantum contextuality by simultaneous control of complementary photon polarizations

Kengo Matsuyama, Ming Ji, Holger Friedrich Hofmann, M. Iinuma

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations

Abstract

Contextual relations between complementary pairs of polarization components of two photons were observed by controlling the degree of entanglement and the local polarizations, highlighting the non-classical aspects of the relations between measurement contexts.

DOI: 10.1364/quantum.2023.qth2a.17

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