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Our common understanding of the physical world deeply relies on the notion that events are ordered with respect to some time parameter, with past events serving as causes for future ones. Nonetheless, it was recently found that it is…

We explore indefinite causal order between events in the context of quasiclassical spacetimes in superposition. We introduce several new quantifiers to measure the degree of indefiniteness of the causal order for an arbitrary finite number…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-07 Samuel Fedida , Anne-Catherine de la Hamette , Viktoria Kabel , Časlav Brukner

The recently developed framework for quantum theory with no global causal order allows for quantum processes in which operations in local laboratories are neither causally ordered nor in a probabilistic mixture of definite causal orders.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Veronika Baumann , Časlav Brukner

An astonishing feature of higher-order quantum theory is that it can accommodate indefinite causal order. In the simplest bipartite setting, there exist signaling correlations for which it is fundamentally impossible to ascribe a definite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Jessica Bavaresco , Ämin Baumeler , Yelena Guryanova , Costantino Budroni

Quantum batteries, consisting of quantum cells, are anticipated to surpass their classical counterparts in performance because of the presence of quantum correlations. Recent theoretical study introduces the quantum battery capacity that is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 Xue Yang , Yan-Han Yang , Xin-Zhu Liu , Jun-Li Jiang , Xing-Zhou Zheng , Shao-Ming Fei , Ming-Xing Luo

Quantum control allows us to address the problem of engineering quantum dynamics for special purposes. While recently the field of quantum batteries has attracted much attention, optimization of their charging has not benefited from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-12 R. R. Rodriguez , B. Ahmadi , G. Suarez , P. Mazurek , S. Barzanjeh , P. Horodecki

Recent developments in the formalisation of quantum causal structures have made it possible to test and compare hypotheses about causal structure empirically, rather than being a-priori assumptions. Such differences in causal structure may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Declan Maguire , Fabio Costa

Quantum batteries can be charged by performing a work ``instantaneously'' in the limit of a large number of cells, achieving a so-called quantum advantage. In general, the work exhibits statistics that can be represented by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Gianluca Francica

Quantum battery, as a novel energy storage device, offers the potential for unprecedented efficiency and performance beyond the capabilities of classical systems, with broad implications for future quantum technologies. Here, we…

Quantum batteries are energy storage devices built using quantum mechanical objects, which are developed with the aim of outperforming their classical counterparts. Proposing optimal designs of quantum batteries which are able to exploit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 C. A. Downing , M. S. Ukhtary

First, we investigate the trade-off relations of quantum battery capacities in two-qubit system. We find that the sum of subsystem battery capacity is governed by the total system capacity, with this trade-off relation persisting for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Yiding Wang , Xiaofen Huang , Shao-Ming Fei , Tinggui Zhang

Computational models typically assume that operations are applied in a fixed sequential order. In recent years several works have looked at relaxing this assumption, considering computations without any fixed causal structure and showing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Alastair A. Abbott , Mehdi Mhalla , Pierre Pocreau

We present a systematic analysis and classification of several models of quantum batteries involving different combinations of two level systems and quantum harmonic oscillators. In particular, we study energy transfer processes from a…

In this "map" we are going to present the concept of indefinite causal order and make a quick journey through its different flavours. We will start with a broad conceptual motivation for studying indefinite causal order, based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Jorge Escandón-Monardes

A switched quantum channel with indefinite causal order is studied for the fundamental metrological task of phase estimation on a qubit unitary operator affected by quantum thermal noise. Specific capabilities are reported in the switched…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-04 Francois Chapeau-Blondeau

It was recently realised that quantum theory allows for so-called causally nonseparable processes, which are incompatible with any definite causal order. This was first suggested on a rather abstract level by the formalism of process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-20 Cyril Branciard

Indefinite causal order (ICO) has the potential to be a new resource for quantum information processing. In most of its experiments, ICO has been investigated in a photonic platform. Here we investigate ICO in a cavity quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Lorenzo M. Procopio , L. O. Castaños-Cervantes , Tim J. Bartley

We show a method of describing processes with indefinite causal order (ICO) by a definite causal order. We do so by relabeling the processes that take place in the circuit in accordance with the basis of measurement of control qubit. Causal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Stanislav Filatov , Marcis Auzinsh

We address the study of quantum metrology enhanced by indefinite causal order, demonstrating a quadratic advantage in the estimation of the product of two average displacements in a continuous variable system. We prove that no setup where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Xiaobin Zhao , Yuxiang Yang , Giulio Chiribella