Experimental aspects of indefinite causal order in quantum mechanics

LA Rozema, T Strömberg, H Cao, Y Guo, BH Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
In the past decade, the toolkit of quantum information has been expanded to include
processes in which the basic operations do not have definite causal relations. Originally …

Charging quantum batteries via indefinite causal order: Theory and experiment

G Zhu, Y Chen, Y Hasegawa, P Xue - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
In the standard quantum theory, the causal order of occurrence between events is
prescribed, and must be definite. This has been maintained in all conventional scenarios of …

Experimental quantum communication enhancement by superposing trajectories

G Rubino, LA Rozema, D Ebler, H Kristjánsson… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
In quantum communication networks, wires represent well-defined trajectories along which
quantum systems are transmitted. In spite of this, trajectories can be used as a quantum …

Indefinite causal order enables perfect quantum communication with zero capacity channels

G Chiribella, M Banik, SS Bhattacharya… - New Journal of …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum mechanics is compatible with scenarios where the relative order between two
events can be indefinite. Here we show that two independent instances of a noisy process …

Fundamental limits for realizing quantum processes in spacetime

V Vilasini, R Renner - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Understanding the interface between quantum and relativistic theories is crucial for
fundamental and practical advances, especially given that key physical concepts such as …

Quantum refrigeration with indefinite causal order

D Felce, V Vedral - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We propose a thermodynamic refrigeration cycle which uses indefinite causal orders to
achieve nonclassical cooling. The cycle cools a cold reservoir while consuming purity in a …

Fully‐Optimized Quantum Metrology: Framework, Tools, and Applications

Q Liu, Z Hu, H Yuan, Y Yang - Advanced Quantum …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This tutorial introduces a systematic approach for addressing the key question of quantum
metrology: For a generic task of sensing an unknown parameter, what is the ultimate …

Quantum circuits with classical versus quantum control of causal order

J Wechs, H Dourdent, AA Abbott, C Branciard - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Quantum supermaps are transformations that map quantum operations to quantum
operations. It is known that quantum supermaps which respect a definite, predefined causal …

Embedding cyclic causal structures in acyclic spacetimes: no-go results for process matrices

V Vilasini, R Renner - arxiv, 2022 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Causality can be defined in terms of a space-time structure or based on information-theoretic
structures, which correspond to very different notions of causation. When analysing physical …

Resource theories of communication

H Kristjánsson, G Chiribella, S Salek… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
A series of recent works has shown that placing communication channels in a coherent
superposition of alternative configurations can boost their ability to transmit information …