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 …

Experiments on quantum causality

K Goswami, J Romero - AVS Quantum Science, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum causality extends the conventional notion of the fixed causal structure by allowing
channels and operations to act in an indefinite causal order. The importance of such an …

Quantum stochastic processes and quantum non-Markovian phenomena

S Milz, K Modi - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
The field of classical stochastic processes forms a major branch of mathematics. Stochastic
processes are, of course, also very well studied in biology, chemistry, ecology, geology …

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 …

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 …

Device-independent certification of indefinite causal order in the quantum switch

T van der Lugt, J Barrett, G Chiribella - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Quantum theory is compatible with scenarios in which the order of operations is indefinite.
Experimental investigations of such scenarios, all of which have been based on a process …

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 …

Experimental super-Heisenberg quantum metrology with indefinite gate order

P Yin, X Zhao, Y Yang, Y Guo, WH Zhang, GC Li… - Nature Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The precision of quantum metrology is widely believed to be restricted by the Heisenberg
limit, corresponding to a root mean square error that is inversely proportional to the number …