Probabilistic Generation of Quantum Contextual Sets

TL;DR

This paper introduces a comprehensive method for generating a vast number of Kochen-Specker contextual sets from the 600-cell, enabling new experimental and quantum gate applications, and extends previous parity proof approaches.

Contribution

It provides an exhaustive generation technique for KS sets, including new sets with even numbers of edges, complementing existing methods and offering statistical estimates of total set counts.

Findings

Generated 35 new critical KS sets with even edges

Provided a statistical estimate of total KS sets possible

Complemented previous parity proof methods

Abstract

We give a method for exhaustive generation of a huge number of Kochen-Specker contextual sets, based on the 600-cell, for possible experiments and quantum gates. The method is complementary to our previous parity proof generation of these sets, and it gives all sets while the parity proof method gives only sets with an odd number of edges in their hypergraph representation. Thus we obtain 35 new kinds of critical KS sets with an even number of edges. Using a random sample of the sets generated with our method, we give a statistical estimate of the number of sets that might be obtained in an eventual exhaustive enumeration.