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Revisiting Quantum Contextuality in an Algebraic Framework

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Within the framework of quantum contextuality, we discuss the ideas of extracontextuality and extravalence, that allow one to relate Kochen-Specker's and Gleason's theorems. We emphasize that whereas Kochen-Specker's is essentially a no-go theorem, Gleason's provides a mathematical justification of Born's rule. Our extracontextual approach requires however a way to describe the ``Heisenberg cut''. Following an article by John von Neumann on infinite tensor products, this can be done by noticing that the usual formalism of quantum mechanics, associated with unitary equivalence of representations, stops working when countable infinities of particles (or degrees of freedom) are encountered. This is because the dimension of the corresponding Hilbert space becomes uncountably infinite, leading to the loss of unitary equivalence, and to sectorisation. Such an intrinsically contextual approach provides a unified mathematical model including both quantum and classical physics, that appear as required incommensurable facets in the description of nature.
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hal-04307739 , version 1 (26-11-2023)

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Mathias van Den Bossche, Philippe Grangier. Revisiting Quantum Contextuality in an Algebraic Framework. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2023, 2533 (1), pp.012008. ⟨10.1088/1742-6596/2533/1/012008⟩. ⟨hal-04307739⟩
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