Publications

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

  1. Qualitative equivalence between incompatibility and Bell nonlocality, S.A. Yadavalli, N. Andrejic, and R. Kunjwal, Phys. Rev. A 110, L060201 (2024) (arXiv:2008.10100). (Published PDF and Supplemental Material)
  2. Understanding the interplay of entanglement and nonlocality: motivating and developing a new branch of entanglement theory, D. Schmid, T.C. Fraser, R. Kunjwal, A. B. Sainz, E. Wolfe, and R. W. Spekkens, Quantum 7, 1194 (2023) (arXiv:2004.09194). (Published PDF)
  3. Trading causal order for locality, R. Kunjwal and Ä. Baumeler, Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 120201 (2023) (arXiv:2202.00440). (Published PDF)
  4. Contextuality without incompatibility, J.H. Selby, D. Schmid, E. Wolfe, A.B. Sainz, R. Kunjwal, and R.W. Spekkens, Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 230201 (2023) (arXiv:2106.09045). (Published PDF and Supplemental Material)
  5. Accessible fragments of generalized probabilistic theories, cone equivalence, and applications to witnessing nonclassicality, J.H. Selby, D. Schmid, E. Wolfe, A.B Sainz, R. Kunjwal, and R.W. Spekkens, Phys. Rev. A 107, 062203 (2023) (arXiv:2112.04521). (Published PDF)
  6. Contextuality in composite systems: the role of entanglement in the Kochen-Specker theorem, V.J. Wright and R. Kunjwal, Quantum 7, 900 (2023) (arXiv:2109.13594). (Published PDF)
  7. Contextuality in entanglement-assisted one-shot classical communication, S.A. Yadavalli and R. Kunjwal, Quantum 6, 839 (2022) (arXiv:2006.00469). (Published PDF)
  8. Quantum researcher mobility: the wonderful wizard of Oz who paid for Dorothy’s Visa fees, M. Malik, E. Agudelo, and R. Kunjwal, Quantum Sci. Technol. 7 034005 (2022) (arXiv:2203.02371). (Published PDF)
  9. Characterization of Noncontextuality in the Framework of Generalized Probabilistic Theories, D. Schmid, J.H. Selby, E. Wolfe, R. Kunjwal, and R.W. Spekkens, PRX Quantum 2, 010331 (2021) (arXiv:1911.10386). (Published PDF)
  10. Towards spacetime entanglement entropy for interacting theories, Y. Chen, L. Hackl, R. Kunjwal, H. Moradi, Y.K. Yazdi, M. Zilhao, J. High Energ. Phys. 2020, 114 (2020) (arXiv:2002.00966). (Published PDF)
  11. Joint measurability structures realizable with qubit measurements: Incompatibility via marginal surgery, N. Andrejic and R. Kunjwal, Phys. Rev. Research 2, 043147 (2020) (arXiv:2003.00785). (Published PDF)
  12. Quantifying Bell: the Resource Theory of Nonclassicality of Common-Cause Boxes, E. Wolfe, D. Schmid, A. B. Sainz, R. Kunjwal, and R. W. Spekkens, Quantum 4, 280 (2020) (arXiv: 1903.06311). (Published PDF)
  13. Hypergraph framework for irreducible noncontextuality inequalities from logical proofs of the Kochen-Specker theorem, R. Kunjwal, Quantum 4, 219 (2020) (arXiv:1805.02083). (Published PDF)
  14. Anomalous weak values and contextuality: robustness, tightness, and imaginary parts, R. Kunjwal, M. Lostaglio, and M.F. Pusey, Phys. Rev. A 100, 042116 (2019) (arXiv:1812.06940). (Published PDF, Code)
  15. Beyond the Cabello-Severini-Winter framework: making sense of contextuality without sharpness of measurements, R. Kunjwal, Quantum 3, 184 (2019) (arXiv:1709.01098). (Published PDF)
  16. Almost quantum correlations are inconsistent with Specker’s principle, by T. Gonda, R. Kunjwal, D. Schmid, E. Wolfe,  and A. B. Sainz, Quantum, 2, 87 (2018) (arXiv:1712.01225). (Published PDF)
  17. From statistical proofs of the Kochen-Specker theorem to noise-robust noncontextuality inequalities, by R. Kunjwal and R. W. Spekkens, Phys. Rev. A 97, 052110 (2018) (arXiv:1708.04793). (Published PDF)
  18. An experimental test of noncontextuality without unphysical idealizations, M.D. Mazurek, M. F. Pusey, R. Kunjwal, K. J. Resch and R.W. Spekkens, Nature Communications 7:11780 (2016) (arXiv:1505.06244). (Published PDF, Supplementary Information, Supplementary Data 1, Supplementary Data 2)
  19. From the Kochen-Specker theorem to noncontextuality inequalities without assuming determinism, R. Kunjwal and R.W. Spekkens, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 110403 (2015) (arXiv:1506.04150). (Published PDF, Supplemental Material)
  20. Fine’s theorem, noncontextuality, and correlations in Specker’s scenario, R. Kunjwal, Phys. Rev. A 91, 022108 (2015) (arXiv:1410.7760). (Published PDF)
  21. Quantum realization of arbitrary joint measurability structures, R. Kunjwal, C. Heunen and T. Fritz, Phys. Rev. A 89, 052126 (2014) (arXiv:1403.0470). (Published PDF)
  22. Minimal state-dependent proof of measurement contextuality for a qubit, R. Kunjwal and S. Ghosh, Phys. Rev. A 89, 042118 (2014) (arXiv:1305.7009). (Published PDF)
  23. Relative volume of separable bipartite states, R. Singh, R. Kunjwal, and R. Simon, Phys. Rev. A 89, 022308 (2014) (arXiv:1307.1454). (Published PDF)

Preprints on arXiv

  1. No-go theorem for quantum realization of extremal correlations, Sujan V.K and R. Kunjwal, arXiv:2509.14879 (2025).
  2. Generalizing Bell nonlocality without global causal assumptions, R. Kunjwal and O. Oreshkov, arXiv:2411.11397 (2024).
  3. Nonclassicality in correlations without causal order, R. Kunjwal and O. Oreshkov, arXiv:2307.02565 (2023).
  4. A note on the joint measurability of POVMs and its implications for contextuality, R. Kunjwal, arXiv:1403.0470 (2014).

Theses

HDR Thesis: Quantumness via Discrete Structures

Ph.D. Thesis: Contextuality beyond the Kochen-Specker theorem

M.Sc. Thesis: Limits on nonlocal correlations from physical principles: a review