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 …

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 …

Causal orders, quantum circuits and spacetime: distinguishing between definite and superposed causal orders

N Paunković, M Vo**ović - Quantum, 2020 - quantum-journal.org
We study the notion of causal orders for the cases of (classical and quantum) circuits and
spacetime events. We show that every circuit can be immersed into a classical spacetime …

Resource theory of causal connection

S Milz, J Bavaresco, G Chiribella - Quantum, 2022 - quantum-journal.org
The capacity of distant parties to send signals to one another is a fundamental requirement
in many information-processing tasks. Such ability is determined by the causal structure …

Higher-order process matrix tomography of a passively-stable quantum switch

M Antesberger, MT Quintino, P Walther, LA Rozema - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
The field of indefinite causal order (ICO) has seen a recent surge in interest. Much of this
research has focused on the quantum switch, wherein multiple parties act in a superposition …

Unitary channel discrimination beyond group structures: Advantages of sequential and indefinite-causal-order strategies

J Bavaresco, M Murao, MT Quintino - Journal of Mathematical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
For minimum-error channel discrimination tasks that involve only unitary channels, we show
that sequential strategies may outperform the parallel ones. Additionally, we show that …

Quantum simulation of indefinite causal order induced quantum refrigeration

H Cao, NN Wang, Z Jia, C Zhang, Y Guo, BH Liu… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
In the classical world, physical events always happen in a fixed causal order. However, it
was recently revealed that quantum mechanics allows events to occur with indefinite causal …

Semi-device-independent certification of indefinite causal order in a photonic quantum switch

H Cao, J Bavaresco, NN Wang, LA Rozema, C Zhang… - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Quantum processes are transformations that act on quantum operations. Their study led to
the discovery of the phenomenon of indefinite causal order: some quantum processes, such …

Semi-device-independent certification of causal nonseparability with trusted quantum inputs

H Dourdent, AA Abbott, N Brunner, I Šupić… - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
While the standard formulation of quantum theory assumes a fixed background causal
structure, one can relax this assumption within the so-called process matrix framework …

Quantum diffeomorphisms cannot make indefinite causal order definite

AC de la Hamette, V Kabel, M Christodoulou… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
The study of indefinite causal order has seen rapid development, both theoretically and
experimentally, in recent years. While classically the causal order of two timelike separated …