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We analyze how the presence of closed timelike curves (CTCs) characterizing a time machine can be discerned by placing a local particle detector in a region of spacetime which is causally disconnected from the CTCs. Our study shows that not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-19 Ana Alonso-Serrano , Erickson Tjoa , Luis J. Garay , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

The spacetime metric around a rotating SuperConductive Ring (SCR) is deduced from the gravitomagnetic London moment in rotating superconductors. It is shown that theoretically it is possible to generate Closed Timelike Curves (CTC) with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Clovis Jacinto de Matos

We define a new quantity we call a ctcbit that provides a means for quantifying a qubit on a closed time-like curve (CTC) as a shared resource. We describe a simple protocol for the sharing of information that is similar to quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-25 Ian T. Durham

Examples are given of the creation of closed timelike curves by choices of coordinate identifications. Following G\"odel's prescription, it is seen that flat spacetime can produce closed timelike curves with structure similar to that of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. I. Cooperstock , S. Tieu

While it is tempting to think of closed timelike curves (CTCs) around rotating bodies such as a black hole as being "caused" by the rotation of the source, Andr\'eka et al. pointed out that the underlying physics is not as straightforward…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-01 Yuanyuan Duan , Fangxun Liu , Yu Wang , Yen Chin Ong

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

The Einstein equations allow solutions containing closed timelike curves. These have generated much puzzlement and suspicion that they could imply paradoxes. I show that puzzlement and paradoxes disappears if we discuss carefully the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-12 Carlo Rovelli

Proposed models of closed timelike curves (CTCs) have been shown to enable powerful information-processing protocols. We examine the simulation of models of CTCs both by other models of CTCs and by physical systems without access to CTCs.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-28 Todd A. Brun , Mark M. Wilde

We consider two approaches to evading paradoxes in quantum mechanics with closed timelike curves (CTCs). In a model similar to Politzer's, assuming pure states and using path integrals, we show that the problems of paradoxes and of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Allen Everett

Born in the intersection between quantum mechanics and general relativity, indefinite causal structure is the idea that in the continuum of time, some sets of events do not have an inherent causal order between them. Process matrices,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Omri Shmueli

We show that qubits traveling along closed timelike curves are a resource that a party can exploit to distinguish perfectly any set of quantum states. As a result, an adversary with access to closed timelike curves can break any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-30 Todd A. Brun , Jim Harrington , Mark M. Wilde

A ring resonator involves a scattering process where a part of the output is fed again into the input. The same formal structure is encountered in the problem of time travel in a neighborhood of a closed timelike curve (CTC). We know how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Marek Czachor

In a recent paper, Mallett found a solution of the Einstein equations in which closed timelike curves (CTC's) are present in the empty space outside an infinitely long cylinder of light moving in circular paths around an axis. Here we show…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Ken D. Olum , Allen Everett

There is now a significant body of results on quantum interactions with closed timelike curves (CTCs) in the quantum information literature, for both the Deutsch model of CTC interactions (D-CTCs) and the projective model (P-CTCs). As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 Jeffrey Bub , Allen Stairs

Quantized tensor trains (QTTs) are a multiscale computational framework that can potentially reduce the computational cost of solving partial differential equations and initial value problems by making low-rank approximations. However, its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Erika Ye

In a recent Letter, Bennett and coworkers [1] argue that proofs of exotic quantum effects using closed timelike curves (CTC's) based on the work of Deutsch [2], or other nonlinear quantum dynamics, suffer from a fallacy that they call the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-10 Eric G. Cavalcanti , Nicolas C. Menicucci

Recently, the quantum information processing power of closed timelike curves have been discussed. Because the most widely accepted model for quantum closed timelike curve interactions contains ambiguities, different authors have been able…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 T. C. Ralph , C. R. Myers

We investigate vacuum solutions of Einstein's equation for a universe with an S^1 topology of time. Such a universe behaves like a time-machine and has geodesics which coincide with closed time-like curves (CTCs). A system evolving along a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Moninder Singh Modgil , Deshdeep Sahdev

We present a modification to a 'rotating' version of the dynamical Alcubierre spacetime, which was previously shown to permit closed timelike curves. We find that if the effective rotation rate is made dependent on the spacetime coordinates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-26 Achintya Sajeendran , Timothy C. Ralph

Closed Time-like curves (CTC) in Cosmic strings in teleparallel $T_{4}$ gravity are forbidden.This result shown here in $T_{4}$ was shown by Soleng (Phys.Rev.D49 (1994)1124) also to be valid in Einstein-Cartan (EC) gravity.Here we show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade