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Are temporal quantum correlations generally non-monogamous?

Quantum Physics 2020-11-18 v1

Abstract

In this paper we focus on the underlying quantum structure of temporal correlations and show their peculiar nature which differentiate them from spatial quantum correlations. We show rigorously that a particular entangled history, which can be associated with a quantum propagator, is monogamous to conserve its consistency throughout time. Yet evolving systems violate monogamous Bell-like multi-time inequalities. This dichotomy, being a novel feature of temporal correlations, has its roots in the measurement process itself which is discussed by means of the bundles of entangled histories. We introduce and discuss a concept of a probabilistic mixture of quantum processes by means of which we clarify why the spatial-like Bell-type monogamous inequalities are further violated. We prove that Tsirelson bound on temporal Bell-like inequalities can be derived from the entangled histories approach and as a generalization, we derive the quantum bound for multi-time Bell-like inequalities. It is also pointed out that what mimics violation of monogamy of temporal entanglement is actually just a kind of polyamory in time but monogamy of entanglement for a particular evolution still holds.

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@article{arxiv.2011.08437,
  title  = {Are temporal quantum correlations generally non-monogamous?},
  author = {Marcin Nowakowski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.08437},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1604.03976

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