Sunday, August 4, 2013

1308.0270 (Siddhartha Das et al.)

Unification of Bell, Leggett-Garg and Kochen-Specker inequalities and a
hybrid spatio-temporal inequality
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Siddhartha Das, S. Aravinda, R. Srikanth, Dipankar Home
The Bell-type (spatial), Kochen-Specker (contextuality) or Leggett-Garg (temporal) inequalities are based on classically plausible but otherwise quite distinct assumptions. For any of these inequalities, satisfaction is equivalent to a joint probability distribution for all observables in the experiment. This implies a joint distribution for all pairs of observables, and is indifferent to whether or not they commute in the theory. This indifference underpins a unification of the above inequalities into a general framework of correlation inequalities. When the physical scenario is such that the correlated pairs are all compatible, the resulting correlation is non-signaling, which may be local or multi-particle, corresponding to contextuality or Bell-type inequalities. If the pairs are incompatible, the resulting correlation corresponds to LG inequalities. That quantum mechanics (QM) violates all these inequalities suggests a close connection between the local, spatial and temporal properties of the theory. As a concrete manifestation of the unification, we extend the Roy-Singh method to derive and study a new class of hybrid spatio-temporal inequalities, where the correlated pairs in the experiment are both compatible or incompatible. The cryptographic implications of the unification are briefly touched upon.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1308.0270

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