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Quantum-Classical Separation in Bounded-Resource Tasks Arising from Measurement Contextuality

Published: December 1, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2512.02284v1

By: Shashwat Kumar , Eliott Rosenberg , Alejandro Grajales Dau and more

Potential Business Impact:

Lets computers solve hard problems classical ones can't.

Business Areas:
Quantum Computing Science and Engineering

The prevailing view is that quantum phenomena can be harnessed to tackle certain problems beyond the reach of classical approaches. Quantifying this capability as a quantum-classical separation and demonstrating it on current quantum processors has remained elusive. Using a superconducting qubit processor, we show that quantum contextuality enables certain tasks to be performed with success probabilities beyond classical limits. With a few qubits, we illustrate quantum contextuality with the magic square game, as well as quantify it through a Kochen--Specker--Bell inequality violation. To examine many-body contextuality, we implement the N-player GHZ game and separately solve a 2D hidden linear function problem, exceeding classical success rate in both. Our work proposes novel ways to benchmark quantum processors using contextuality-based algorithms.

Page Count
24 pages

Category
Physics:
Quantum Physics