Affiliation:
1. Departamento de Física Aplicada II, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41012 Sevilla, Spain
2. Instituto Carlos I de Física Teórica y Computacional, Universidad de Sevilla, E-41012 Sevilla, Spain
Abstract
The totalitarian principle establishes that ‘anything not forbidden is compulsory’. The problem of quantum correlations is explaining what selects the set of quantum correlations for a Bell and Kochen–Specker (KS) contextuality scenario. Here, we show that two assumptions and a version of the totalitarian principle lead to the quantum correlations. The assumptions are that there is a non-empty set of correlations for any KS contextuality scenario and a statistically independent realization of any two KS experiments. The version of the totalitarian principle says that any correlation not forbidden by these assumptions can be produced. This paper contains a short version of the proof (presented elsewhere) and explores some implications of the result.
This article is part of the theme issue ‘Contextuality and probability in quantum mechanics and beyond’.
Funder
The Observer Observed: A Bayesian Route to the Reconstruction of Quantum Theory
Quantum Tools for Information, Computation and Research
Photonic Quantum Information
Conserjería de Conocimiento, Investigación y Universidad, Junta de Andalucía and European Regional Development Fund
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy,General Engineering,General Mathematics
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