Kochen-Specker theorem for a single qubit using positive operator-valued measures

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 90, Issue 19, 2003, Pages

  Cabello, Adán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ALGEBRAIC REASONING; POSITIVE OPERATOR VALUED MEASURES; SINGLE QUBIT;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 0037933485     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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