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SUBMITTER: Thompson J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3776963 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thompson Jayne J Pisarczyk Robert R Kurzyński Paweł P Kaszlikowski Dagomir D
Scientific reports 20130101
Contextuality is a foundational phenomenon underlying key differences between quantum theory and classical realistic descriptions of the world. Here we propose an experimental test which is capable of revealing contextuality in all qutrit systems, except the completely mixed state, provided we choose the measurement basis appropriately. The 3-level system is furnished by the polarization and spatial degrees of freedom of a single photon, which encompass three orthogonal modes. Projective measure ...[more]