Coordination Requires a Common Cause in Quantum Theory
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| author | Centeno, Daniel Coquet, Antoine Alañón, Maria Ciudad Tendick, Lucas Renou, Marc-Olivier Wolfe, Elie |
| author_facet | Centeno, Daniel Coquet, Antoine Alañón, Maria Ciudad Tendick, Lucas Renou, Marc-Olivier Wolfe, Elie |
| contents | We propose a novel causal principle that is a genuinely multipartite extension of Reichenbach's common cause principle, namely, the coordination principle: parties in a network can achieve perfect randomized coordination--in particular, agree on a uniformly random output--only if they all share a common cause. We show that this principle does not follow from the standard no-signaling and independence principles by providing an explicit theory satisfying all these principles while violating the coordination principle. Strikingly, we prove that the coordination principle holds, however, in quantum theory for four parties, and derive noise-tolerant Bell-like inequalities that certify a common cause. We then extend these results to a genuinely quantum coordination task, showing that the four-partite GHZ state requires a quantum common cause which can also be certified by experimentally accessible Bell-like inequalities. A companion paper generalizes these results for N parties, proving that the coordination principle is satisfied in general for quantum theory. |
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| spellingShingle | Coordination Requires a Common Cause in Quantum Theory Centeno, Daniel Coquet, Antoine Alañón, Maria Ciudad Tendick, Lucas Renou, Marc-Olivier Wolfe, Elie Quantum Physics We propose a novel causal principle that is a genuinely multipartite extension of Reichenbach's common cause principle, namely, the coordination principle: parties in a network can achieve perfect randomized coordination--in particular, agree on a uniformly random output--only if they all share a common cause. We show that this principle does not follow from the standard no-signaling and independence principles by providing an explicit theory satisfying all these principles while violating the coordination principle. Strikingly, we prove that the coordination principle holds, however, in quantum theory for four parties, and derive noise-tolerant Bell-like inequalities that certify a common cause. We then extend these results to a genuinely quantum coordination task, showing that the four-partite GHZ state requires a quantum common cause which can also be certified by experimentally accessible Bell-like inequalities. A companion paper generalizes these results for N parties, proving that the coordination principle is satisfied in general for quantum theory. |
| title | Coordination Requires a Common Cause in Quantum Theory |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03120 |