Quantum Contextuality

Quantum theory generally does not predict the outcomes of individual measurements. We might be tempted to think that the individual outcomes are determined by hidden variables that quantum theory doesn't know about. This article shows that such a model would need to have a strange feature in order to reproduce quantum theory's predictions.

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2022-10-23 (updated bibliography to include publication data instead of only arxiv link)
2022-06-18 (removed a duplicate word, added a footnote to clarify some standard-but-overloaded notation, added a note to define some other standard notation)
2022-06-13 (removed unused abbreviation from abstract)
2022-06-11 (updated references to other articles in this series to link to html abstract pages instead of to pdfs. Didn't change the version number/date)
2022-05-23 (added footnotes about etymology and pronunciation)
2022-05-15 (improved some wording, fixed grammar errors, moved an inline reference to the bibliography, removed part of one footnote)
2022-05-14 (first version)

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Quantum Contextuality

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