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 …

Complex quantum networks: a topical review

J Nokkala, J Piilo, G Bianconi - Journal of Physics A …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
These are exciting times for quantum physics as new quantum technologies are expected to
soon transform computing at an unprecedented level. Simultaneously network science is …

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 …

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 …

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 …

How deep the theory of quantum communications goes: Superadditivity, superactivation and causal activation

S Koudia, AS Cacciapuoti, K Simonov… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the theory of quantum communications, a deeper structure has been recently unveiled,
showing that the capacity does not completely characterize the channel ability to transmit …

Computational advantage from a quantum superposition of qubit gate orders

MJ Renner, Č Brukner - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
In an ordinary quantum algorithm the gates are applied in a fixed order on the systems. The
introduction of indefinite causal structures allows us to relax this constraint and control the …

Steering-enhanced quantum metrology using superpositions of noisy phase shifts

KY Lee, JD Lin, A Miranowicz, F Nori, HY Ku… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Quantum steering is an important correlation in quantum information theory. A recent work
[Nat. Commun. 12, 2410 (2021) NCAOBW 2041-1723 10.1038/s41467-021-22353-3] …

Thermal devices powered by generalized measurements with indefinite causal order

PR Dieguez, VF Lisboa, RM Serra - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
A quantum-controlled device may produce a scenario in which two general quantum
operations can be performed in such a way that it is not possible to associate a definite order …