TY - JOUR
T1 - Epistemic odds of contextuality in cyclic systems
AU - Dzhafarov, Ehtibar N.
AU - Kujala, Janne V.
AU - Cervantes, Víctor H.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - Beginning with the Bell theorem, cyclic systems of dichotomous random variables have been the object of many foundational findings in quantum mechanics. Here, we ask the question: if one chooses a cyclic system “at random” (uniformly within the hyperbox of all possible systems with given marginals), what are the odds that it will be contextual? We show that the odds of contextuality rapidly tend to zero as the size of the system increases. The result is based on the Contextuality-by-Default theory, in which we do not have to assume that the systems are subject to the no-disturbance/no-signaling constraints.
AB - Beginning with the Bell theorem, cyclic systems of dichotomous random variables have been the object of many foundational findings in quantum mechanics. Here, we ask the question: if one chooses a cyclic system “at random” (uniformly within the hyperbox of all possible systems with given marginals), what are the odds that it will be contextual? We show that the odds of contextuality rapidly tend to zero as the size of the system increases. The result is based on the Contextuality-by-Default theory, in which we do not have to assume that the systems are subject to the no-disturbance/no-signaling constraints.
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U2 - 10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00063-7
DO - 10.1140/epjs/s11734-021-00063-7
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85104258753
SN - 1951-6355
VL - 230
SP - 937
EP - 940
JO - European Physical Journal: Special Topics
JF - European Physical Journal: Special Topics
IS - 4
ER -