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 …

Quantum causal modelling

F Costa, S Shrapnel - New Journal of Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Causal modelling provides a powerful set of tools for identifying causal structure from
observed correlations. It is well known that such techniques fail for quantum systems, unless …

Witnessing causal nonseparability

M Araújo, C Branciard, F Costa, A Feix… - New Journal of …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Our common understanding of the physical world deeply relies on the notion that events are
ordered with respect to some time parameter, with past events serving as causes for future …

Bell's theorem for temporal order

M Zych, F Costa, I Pikovski, Č Brukner - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Time has a fundamentally different character in quantum mechanics and in general relativity.
In quantum theory events unfold in a fixed order while in general relativity temporal order is …

Causal and causally separable processes

O Oreshkov, C Giarmatzi - New Journal of Physics, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The idea that events are equipped with a partial causal order is central to our understanding
of physics in the tested regimes: given two pointlike eventsAandB, eitherAis in the causal …

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 …

Cyclic quantum causal models

J Barrett, R Lorenz, O Oreshkov - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Causal reasoning is essential to science, yet quantum theory challenges it. Quantum
correlations violating Bell inequalities defy satisfactory causal explanations within the …

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 …

Experimental quantum switching for exponentially superior quantum communication complexity

K Wei, N Tischler, SR Zhao, YH Li, JM Arrazola, Y Liu… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
Finding exponential separation between quantum and classical information tasks is like
striking gold in quantum information research. Such an advantage is believed to hold for …

Causal structure in the presence of sectorial constraints, with application to the quantum switch

N Ormrod, A Vanrietvelde, J Barrett - Quantum, 2023 - quantum-journal.org
Existing work on quantum causal structure assumes that one can perform arbitrary
operations on the systems of interest. But this condition is often not met. Here, we extend the …