Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (Dec 2014)

Probabilistic models on contextuality scenarios

  • Tobias Fritz,
  • Anthony Leverrier,
  • Ana Belén Sainz

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.171.6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 171, no. Proc. QPL 2013
pp. 63 – 70

Abstract

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We introduce a framework to describe probabilistic models in Bell experiments, and more generally in contextuality scenarios. Such a scenario is a hypergraph whose vertices represent elementary events and hyperedges correspond to measurements. A probabilistic model on such a scenario associates to each event a probability, in such a way that events in a given measurement have a total probability equal to one. We discuss the advantages of this framework, like the unification of the notions of contexuality and nonlocality, and give a short overview of results obtained elsewhere.