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A recent paper from Brun et al. has argued that access to a closed timelike curve (CTC) would allow for the possibility of perfectly distinguishing nonorthogonal quantum states. This result can be used to develop a protocol for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-19 Lucas Dunlap

A novel no-go theorem is presented which sets a bound upon the extent to which '\Psi-epistemic' interpretations of quantum theory are able to explain the overlap between non-orthogonal quantum states in terms of an experimenter's ignorance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-23 O. J. E. Maroney

There has been considerable recent interest in the consequences of closed timelike curves (CTCs) for the dynamics of quantum mechanical systems. A vast majority of research into this area makes use of the dynamical equations developed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Joel J. Wallman , Stephen D. Bartlett

We note that the proof of the no-go theorem of unconditionally secure quantum bit commitment is based on a model which is not universal. For protocols not described by the model, this theorem does not apply. Using unstable particles and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Chi-Yee Cheung

The Extended Wigner's Friend thought experiment, which involves a quantum system with an agent who draws conclusions based on the results of a measurement of a quantum state provided in two nonorthogonal versions by another agent, led its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Szymon Łukaszyk

Based on the instantaneous nonlocal quantum computation (INQC), Buhrman et al. proposed an excellent attack strategy to quantum position verification (QPV) protocols in 2011, and showed that, if the colluding adversaries are allowed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-21 Fei Gao , Bin Liu , Qiao-Yan Wen

The no-masking theorem states that it is impossible to encode an arbitrary quantum state into the correlations between two subsystems so that no original information about is accessible in the marginal state of either subsystem. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Mao-Sheng Li , Kavan Modi

A condition proposed by David Deutsch to describe analogues of processes in the presence of closed timelike curves (D-CTC condition) in bipartite quantum systems is investigated within the framework of local relativistic quantum field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-08 Rainer Verch

For a two-particle two-state system, sets of compatible propositions exist for which quantum mechanics and noncontextual hidden-variable theories make conflicting predictions for every individual system whatever its quantum state. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 Adan Cabello , Guillermo Garcia-Alcaine

We investigate the minimal proof for ruling out maximally $\psi-$epistemic interpretations of quantum theory, in which the indistinguishable nature of two quantum states is fully explained by the epistemic overlap of their corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Sagnik Ray , Anubhav Chaturvedi , Debashis Saha

We postulate the existence of a universal uncertainty relation between the quantum and classical mutual informations between pairs of quantum systems. Specifically, we propose that the sum of the classical mutual information, determined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-18 James Schneeloch , Curtis J. Broadbent , John C. Howell

The celebrated Bell's no-go theorem rules out the hidden-variable theories falling in the hypothesis of locality and causality, by requiring the theory to model the quantum correlation-at-a-distance phenomena. Here I develop an independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-19 Doriano Brogioli

General relativity predicts the existence of closed timelike curves (CTCs), along which an object could travel to its own past. A consequence of CTCs is the failure of determinism, even for classical systems: one initial condition can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Lachlan G. Bishop , Fabio Costa , Timothy C. Ralph

Unconditionally secure bit commitment is forbidden by quantum mechanics. We extend this no-go theorem to continuous-variable protocols where both players are restricted to use Gaussian states and operations, which is a reasonable assumption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-06 Loïck Magnin , Frédéric Magniez , Anthony Leverrier , Nicolas J. Cerf

Superposition of two or more states is one of the fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics and provides the basis for several advantages quantum information processing offers. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate that quantum…

Recently, Kavan Modi \emph{et al.} found that masking quantum information is impossible in bipartite scenario in [Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{120}, 230501 (2018)]. This adds another item of the no-go theorems. In this paper, we present some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Mao-Sheng Li , Yan-Ling Wang

The principle of superposition is an intriguing feature of Quantum Mechanics, which is regularly exploited at various instances. A recent work [PRL \textbf{116}, 110403 (2016)] shows that the fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics restrict the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-31 Shruti Dogra , George Thomas , Sibasish Ghosh , Dieter Suter

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

Despite various parallels between quantum states and ordinary information, quantum no-go-theorems have convinced many that there is no realistic framework that might underly quantum theory, no reality that quantum states can represent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-12 Ken Wharton

In this work, we propose a general protocol for distributed quantum computing that accommodates arbitrary unknown subroutines. It can be applied to scale up quantum computing through multi-chip interconnection, as well as to tasks such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 X. Xu , Y. -D. Liu , S. Shi , Y. -J. Wang , D. -S. Wang