Date:
Tuesday, December 10, 2019, 3:30pm
Location:
Jefferson 356
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.