Aspects of the phenomenology of interference that are genuinely nonclassical
Lorenzo Catani, Matthew Leifer, Giovanni Scala, David Schmid, Robert W. Spekkens
Abstract
The authors show that a certain wave-particle duality relation is a type of uncertainty relation whose functional form is known to be able to witness the impossibility of a noncontextual model. In this way, they show that the quantum trade-off between path distinguishability and fringe visibility can witness contextuality and they discuss the requirements on an interferometric experiment necessary for achieving a noise-robust test.
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Phenomenology (philosophy)EpistemologyPhilosophyCognitive sciencePsychologyQuantum Mechanics and ApplicationsQuantum Information and CryptographyNeural dynamics and brain function