Classically Realizable Incompatibility

Abstract

Incompatibility constitutes a fundamental aspect of quantum mechanics. However, not every quantum observable non-classical property arises from incompatibility, nor can all quantum scenarios be fully captured by incompatibility alone. Within the framework of partial Boolean algebra (pBA), we research the structural properties of incompatibility scenarios. We introduce a unified method to realize any incompatibility scenario via a classical game, and the construction is extendable to any scenario embeddable into a Boolean algebra. The exclusivity graph offers a precise characterization of incompatibility scenarios. We prove that every exclusivity graph is the atom graph of an exclusive pBA, which is embedded into a Boolean algebra. These results provide a necessary condition for exclusivity graphs and a sufficient condition for atom graphs.