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Quantum dynamics on curved spacetime has never been directly probed beyond the Newtonian limit. Although we can describe such dynamics theoretically, experiments would provide empirical evidence that quantum theory holds even in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Jacob P. Covey , Igor Pikovski , Johannes Borregaard

Quantum teleportation is a very helpful information-theoretic protocol that allows to transfer an unknown arbitrary quantum state from one location to another without having to transmit the quantum system through the intermediate region.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Marius Krumm , Philippe Allard Guérin , Thomas Zauner , Časlav Brukner

We study the capacity of a quantum channel for retrocausal communication, where messages are transmitted backward in time, from a sender in the future to a receiver in the past, through a noisy postselected closed timelike curve (P-CTC)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Kaiyuan Ji , Seth Lloyd , Mark M. Wilde

Recent findings suggest that processes such as the electronic energy transfer through the photosynthetic antenna display quantal features, aspects known from the dynamics of charge carriers along polymer backbones. Hence, in modeling energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Elena Agliari , Oliver Muelken , Alexander Blumen

Entertaining the possibility of time travel will invariably challenge dearly held concepts of fundamental physics. It becomes relatively easy to construct multiple logical contradictions using differing starting points from various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-28 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Sebastian Schuster , Matt Visser

This work deals with the analysis of cylindrically symmetric and stationary space-times $\mathcal{C}_{t}$ with closed timelike curves. The equation of motion describing the evolution of a massive scalar field in a $\mathcal{C}_{t}$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-26 A. B. Pavan

It is known that a party with access to a Deutschian closed timelike curve (D-CTC) can perfectly distinguish multiple non-orthogonal quantum states. In this paper, we propose a practical method for discriminating multiple non-orthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Christopher Vairogs , Vishal Katariya , Mark M. Wilde

In orthodox quantum theory the observables of spacelike separated quantum systems commute. I shall call this the commutation constraint. It severely limits quantum theory's explanatory power. For instance, the constraint cannot be met in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-06 Samuel Kuypers

We consider the region of closed timelike curves (CTC's) in three-dimensional flat Lorentz spacetimes. The interest in this global geometrical feature goes beyond the purely mathematical. Such spacetimes may be considered lower-dimensional…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-11-07 Virginie Charette , Todd A. Drumm , Dieter Brill

Inspired by recent breakthroughs with topological quantum materials, which pave the way to novel, high-efficiency, low-energy magnetoelectric devices and fault-tolerant quantum information processing, inter alia, topological quantum walks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-08 Jizhou Wu , Wei-Wei Zhang , Barry C. Sanders

We study the nature of entanglement in presence of Deutschian closed timelike curves (D-CTCs) and we observe that qubits traveling along a D-CTC allow unambiguous discrimination of Bell states with Local Operations and Classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-20 Subhayan Roy Moulick , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We examine mixedness and entanglement of the chronology-respecting (CR) system with assuming that quantum mechanical closed timelike curves (CTCs) exist in nature and by introducing the qubit system and applying the general controlled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-04 Eylee Jung , DaeKil Park

By using a correlated projection operator, the time-convolutionless (TCL) method to derive a quantum master equation can be utilized to investigate the transport behavior of quantum systems as well. Here, we analyze a three-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-18 Hendrik Weimer , Mathias Michel , Jochen Gemmer , Günter Mahler

A computer which has access to a closed timelike curve, and can thereby send the results of calculations into its own past, can exploit this to solve difficult computational problems efficiently. I give a specific demonstration of this for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-04 Todd A. Brun

We show that, by utilising temporal quantum correlations as expressed by pseudo-density operators (PDOs), it is possible to recover formally the standard quantum dynamical evolution as a sequence of teleportations in time. We demonstrate…

We use holography to examine the response of interacting quantum fields to the appearance of closed timelike curves in a dynamically evolving background that initially does not contain them. For this purpose, we study a family of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-05 Roberto Emparan , Marija Tomašević

Transport and scattering phenomena in open quantum-systems with a continuous energy spectrum are conveniently solved using the time-dependent Schrodinger equation. In the time-dependent picture, the evolution of an initially localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 Tobias Kramer

Continuous time crystals (CTCs) are characterized by sustained oscillations that break the time translation symmetry. Since the ruling out of equilibrium CTCs by no-go theorems, the emergence of such dynamical phases has been observed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Ya-Xin Xiang , Qun-Li Lei , Zhengyang Bai , Yu-Qiang Ma

Quantum walks are a well-established model for the study of coherent transport phenomena and provide a universal platform in quantum information theory. Dynamically influencing the walker's evolution gives a high degree of flexibility for…

Monte Carlo particle transport codes are well established on classical hardware and are considered as the reference tool for nuclear applications. In a growing number of domains, the design of algorithms is progressively shifting towards…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Noé Olivier , Michel Nowak
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