Go back to list
Scientist profile
Victoria J Wright
Bio
Affiliation
Quantinuum
Country of affiliation
United Kingdom
Gender Information
Woman
Academic qualification
Doctoral degree
23/01/2020
Type of research
Theoretical,
Currently in
Industry,
Key-words for research
quantum foundations, general probabilistic theories, noncontextuality, contextuality, Gleason's theorem, Kochen-Specker, nonlocality, SDP hierarchy, quantum key distribution, quantum cryptography
Professional experience
Student supervision, Teaching, Events organisations, Peer review (journals and conference proceedings),
Research highlights
arXiv:2211.12550, An invertible map between Bell non-local and contextuality scenarios. We show how correlations in a two party Bell scenario can be bijectively mapped to behaviours in a family of contextuality scenarios such that quantumness and classicality are preserved. Our result shows no semidefinite programming hierarchy can converge to the quantum contextual set.
arXiv:2010.05853, Characterising and bounding the set of quantum behaviours in contextuality scenarios. We present a semidefinite programming hierarchy to approximate quantum behaviours in contextuality scenarios. We then use the hierarchy to demonstrate a semi-device-independent quantum key distribution protocol powered by contextuality.
arXiv:1808.08091, A Gleason-type theorem for qubits based on mixtures of projective measurements. Gleason's theorem can be used to simplify the axioms of quantum theory. It does so by deriving the state axiom from an axiom describing projective measurements. Gleason's theorem does not, however, hold in dimension two. We show how Gleason's theorem can be extended to dimension two by considering projective-simulable measurements.