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Quantum contextuality takes an important place amongst the concepts of quantum computing that bring an advantage over its classical counterpart. For a large class of contextuality proofs, aka. observable-based proofs of the Kochen-Specker Theorem, we formulate the contextuality property as the absence of solutions to a linear system and define for a contextual configuration its degree of contextuality. Then we explain why subgeometries of binary symplectic polar spaces are candidates for contextuality proofs. We report the results of a software that generates these subgeometries, decides their contextuality and computes their contextuality degree for some small symplectic polar spaces. We show that quadrics in the symplectic polar space $W_n$ are contextual for $n=3,4,5$. The proofs we consider involve more contexts and observables than the smallest known proofs. This intermediate size property of those proofs is interesting for experimental tests, but could also be interesting in quantum game theory., Comment: 18 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables. Mistake in first line of Table 2 corrected

The entanglement of a quantum system can be valuated using Mermin polynomials. This gives us a means to study entanglement evolution during the execution of quantum algorithms. We first consider Grover's quantum search algorithm, noticing that states during the algorithm are maximally entangled in the direction of a single constant state, which allows us to search for a single optimal Mermin operator and use it to evaluate entanglement through the whole execution of Grover's algorithm. Then the Quantum Fourier Transform is also studied with Mermin polynomials. A different optimal Mermin operator is searched at each execution step, since in this case there is no single direction of evolution. The results for the Quantum Fourier Transform are compared to results from a previous study of entanglement with Cayley hyperdeterminant. All our computations can be replayed thanks to a structured and documented open-source code that we provide., Comment: 24 pages

In a model-based testing approach as well as for the verification of properties, B models provide an interesting solution. However, for industrial applications, the size of their state space often makes them hard to handle. To reduce the amount of states, an abstraction function can be used, often combining state variable elimination and domain abstractions of the remaining variables. This paper complements previous results, based on domain abstraction for test generation, by adding a preliminary syntactic abstraction phase, based on variable elimination. We define a syntactic transformation that suppresses some variables from a B event model, in addition to a method that chooses relevant variables according to a test purpose. We propose two methods to compute an abstraction A of an initial model M. The first one computes A as a simulation of M, and the second one computes A as a bisimulation of M. The abstraction process produces a finite state system. We apply this abstraction computation to a Model Based Testing process., Comment: Tests and Proofs 2010, Malaga : Spain (2010)

We are interested in verifying dynamic properties of finite state reactive systems under fairness assumptions by model checking. The systems we want to verify are specified through a top-down refinement process. In order to deal with the state explosion problem, we have proposed in previous works to partition the reachability graph, and to perform the verification on each part separately. Moreover, we have defined a class, called Bmod, of dynamic properties that are verifiable by parts, whatever the partition. We decide if a property P belongs to Bmod by looking at the form of the Buchi automaton that accepts the negation of P. However, when a property P belongs to Bmod, the property f => P, where f is a fairness assumption, does not necessarily belong to Bmod. In this paper, we propose to use the refinement process in order to build the parts on which the verification has to be performed. We then show that with such a partition, if a property P is verifiable by parts and if f is the expression of the fairness assumptions on a system, then the property f => P is still verifiable by parts. This approach is illustrated by its application to the chip card protocol T=1 using the B engineering design language.