Tsirelson bounds for quantum correlations with indefinite causal order

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Liu, Zixuan, Chiribella, Giulio
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866909585164468224
author Liu, Zixuan
Chiribella, Giulio
author_facet Liu, Zixuan
Chiribella, Giulio
contents Quantum theory is in principle compatible with processes that violate causal inequalities, an analogue of Bell inequalities that constrain the correlations observed by sets of parties operating in a definite causal order. Since the introduction of causal inequalities, determining their maximum quantum violation, analogue to Tsirelson's bound for Bell inequalities, has remained an open problem. Here we provide a general method for bounding the violation of arbitrary causal inequalities, establishing limits to the correlations achievable by arbitrary local experiments and by arbitrary quantum processes with indefinite causal order. We prove that the maximum violation is generally smaller than the algebraic maximum of the corresponding correlation, and determine Tsirelson-like bounds for a class of causal inequalities including some of the most paradigmatic examples. Our results motivate a search for physical principles characterizing the boundary of the set of quantum correlations with indefinite causal order.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2403_02749
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Tsirelson bounds for quantum correlations with indefinite causal order
Liu, Zixuan
Chiribella, Giulio
Quantum Physics
Quantum theory is in principle compatible with processes that violate causal inequalities, an analogue of Bell inequalities that constrain the correlations observed by sets of parties operating in a definite causal order. Since the introduction of causal inequalities, determining their maximum quantum violation, analogue to Tsirelson's bound for Bell inequalities, has remained an open problem. Here we provide a general method for bounding the violation of arbitrary causal inequalities, establishing limits to the correlations achievable by arbitrary local experiments and by arbitrary quantum processes with indefinite causal order. We prove that the maximum violation is generally smaller than the algebraic maximum of the corresponding correlation, and determine Tsirelson-like bounds for a class of causal inequalities including some of the most paradigmatic examples. Our results motivate a search for physical principles characterizing the boundary of the set of quantum correlations with indefinite causal order.
title Tsirelson bounds for quantum correlations with indefinite causal order
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02749