Seminar, Peter Love (Tufts University), Pictorial Thinking in Quantum Contextuality

Date: 

Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 3:30pm

Location: 

Jefferson 356

Peter Love

Title: Pictorial Thinking in Quantum Contextuality

Abstract: Contextuality captures the ability of quantum systems to express correlations that are not accessible to physically reasonable classical hidden variable theories. Contextuality is a resource for quantum computing and an obstacle to efficient classical simulation of quantum computers. In this talk I will present a number of results concerning contextuality that use geometrical or graphical reasoning.