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没有因果顺序的量子关联

Quantum correlations with no causal order

Ognyan Oreshkov, Fabio Costa, Caslav Brukner

摘要:

认为事件服从一个确定的因果顺序的想法深深植根于我们对世界的理解和时间概念的基础上。但是因果秩序从何而来,它是自然的必然属性吗?我们从量子力学的角度来解决这些问题,在一个新的框架中的多体相关性,不假设一个预先定义的全球因果结构,但只有局部的有效性量子力学。所有已知的情况下,尊重因果顺序,包括类空间和类时间的分离实验,被这个框架以统一的方式捕获。令人惊讶的是,我们发现的相关性,不能理解的明确的因果顺序。这些相关性违反了所有类空间和类时间相关性都满足的“因果不等式”。我们进一步表明,在一个经典的极限因果顺序总是会出现,这表明,时空可能会出现从一个更基本的结构在量子到经典的过渡。

英文摘要:

The idea that events obey a definite causal order is deeply rooted in our understanding of the world and at the basis of the very notion of time. But where does causal order come from, and is it a necessary property of nature? We address these questions from the standpoint of quantum mechanics in a new framework for multipartite correlations which does not assume a pre-defined global causal structure but only the validity of quantum mechanics locally. All known situations that respect causal order, including space-like and time-like separated experiments, are captured by this framework in a unified way. Surprisingly, we find correlations that cannot be understood in terms of definite causal order. These correlations violate a 'causal inequality' that is satisfied by all space-like and time-like correlations. We further show that in a classical limit causal order always arises, which suggests that space-time may emerge from a more fundamental structure in a quantum-to-classical transition.

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