Experimental Detection of Information Deficit in a Photonic Contextuality Scenario

Xiang Zhan, Paweł Kurzyński, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Kunkun Wang, Zhihao Bian, Yong-Sheng Zhang, Peng Xue · Physical Review Letters · 2017

Contextuality is an essential characteristic of quantum theory, and supplies the power for many quantum information processes. Previous tests of contextuality focus mainly on the probability distribution of measurement results. However, a test of contextuality can be formulated in terms of entropic inequalities whose violations imply information deficit in the studied system. This information deficit has not been observed on a single local system. Here we report the first experimental detection of information deficit in an entropic test of quantum contextuality based on photonic setup. The corresponding inequality is violated with more than 13 standard deviations.

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