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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

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

Closed timelike curves are among the most controversial features of modern physics. As legitimate solutions to Einstein's field equations, they allow for time travel, which instinctively seems paradoxical. However, in the quantum regime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Martin Ringbauer , Matthew A. Broome , Casey R. Myers , Andrew G. White , Timothy C. Ralph

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using closed timelike curves (CTCs) in relativistic hypercomputation. We introduce a wormhole based hypercomputation scenario which is free from the common worries, such as the blueshift…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-27 Hajnal Andréka , István Németi , Gergely Székely

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 arXiv:1107.4675 Ralph uses our post-selection model of closed timelike curves (P-CTC) to construct an "unproven-theorem" paradox, and claims that this voids our argument that P-CTCs are able to resolve such types of paradoxes. Here we…

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

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

Understanding the relationship between the time-symmetric nature of physical laws and the apparent directionality of causality is a central question in quantum foundations. The standard operational formulation, widely used in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Eliot Jean , Ralph Silva , V. Vilasini

Closed timelike curves (CTCs) appear in many solutions of the Einstein equation, even with reasonable matter sources. These solutions appear to violate causality and so are considered problematic. Since CTCs reflect the global properties of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Sergei Slobodov

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

The results of space-like separated measurements are independent of distant measurement settings, a property one might call two-way no-signalling. In contrast, time-like separated measurements are only one-way no-signalling since the past…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Stephen Brierley , Adrian Kosowski , Marcin Markiewicz , Tomasz Paterek , Anna Przysiezna

Closed timelike curves (CTCs) challenge our conception of causality by allowing information to loop back into its own past. Any consistent description of such scenarios must avoid time-travel paradoxes while respecting the no-new-physics…

The existence of time machines, understood as spacetime constructions exhibiting physically realised closed timelike curves (CTCs), would raise fundamental problems with causality and challenge our current understanding of classical and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. M. Shore

According to the set theory, we prove that objects moving along closed timelike curves (CTCs) should belong to proper classes, but never to any set. Particles in a set have to change own some properties when they come into a CVC in order to…

General Physics · Physics 2012-07-16 Zhongzhu Liu

In general relativity, closed timelike curves can break causality with remarkable and unsettling consequences. At the classical level, they induce causal paradoxes disturbing enough to motivate conjectures that explicitly prevent their…

The D-CTC condition, introduced by David Deutsch as a condition to be fulfilled by analogues for processes of quantum systems in the presence of closed timelike curves, is investigated for classical statistical (non-quantum) bi-partite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-05 Jürgen Tolksdorf , Rainer Verch

Prethermal discrete time crystals (PDTCs) are a nonequilibrium state of matter characterized by long-range spatiotemporal order, and exhibiting a subharmonic response stabilized by many-body interactions under periodic driving. The inherent…

I give a historical survey of the discussions about the existence of closed timelike curves in general relativistic models of the universe, opening the physical possibility of time travel in the past, as first recognized by K. G\"odel in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-22 Jean-Pierre Luminet

We investigate the relationship between computation and spacetime structure, focussing on the role of closed timelike curves (CTCs) in promoting computational speedup. We note first that CTC traversal can be interpreted in two distinct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-08 Mike Stannett