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Toy models for quantum evolution in the presence of closed timelike curves (CTCs) have gained attention in the recent literature due to the strange effects they predict. The circuits that give rise to these effects appear quite abstract and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 J. L. Pienaar , C. R. Myers , T. C. Ralph

The cosmological applications of atomic clocks so far have been limited to searches of the uniform-in-time drift of fundamental constants. In this paper, we point out that a transient in time change of fundamental constants can be induced…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-12-09 A. Derevianko , M. Pospelov

We introduce a general categorical framework to reason about quantum theory and other process theories living in spacetimes where Closed Timelike Curves (CTCs) are available, allowing resources to travel back in time and provide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-04 Nicola Pinzani , Stefano Gogioso , Bob Coecke

We study the time-of-arrival problem for relativistic particles constrained to move on a ring, formulating the problem entirely within Quantum Field Theory (QFT). In contrast to its counterpart for motion in a line, the circle topology…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Iason Vakondios , Charis Anastopoulos

In this comment on S.Lloyd, et al, Phys.Rev.Lett. 106, 040403 (2011), we show that modelling closed timelike curves (CTCs) as post-selected teleportation allows signalling to past times before the creation of the CTC and allows information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 T. C. Ralph

We provide a setup by which one can recover the geometry of spacetime from local measurements of quantum particle detectors coupled to a quantum field. Concretely, we show how one can recover the field's correlation function from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-12 T. Rick Perche , Eduardo Martín-Martínez

In this study, the geodesic motion of a test particle along with its confinement is investigated within Cylindrically Symmetric Wormhole spacetime admitting to Closed Timelike Curves. The confinement of particles with or without angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Dhritimalya Roy , Ayanendu Dutta , Subenoy Chakraborty

Bennett and Schumacher's postselected quantum teleportation is a model of closed timelike curves (CTCs) that leads to results physically different from Deutsch's model. We show that even a single qubit passing through a postselected CTC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-07 Todd A. Brun , Mark M. Wilde

We consider causality respecting (CR) quantum systems interacting with closed timelike curves (CTCs), within the Deutsch model. We introduce the concepts of popping up and elimination of quantum information and use them to show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Asutosh Kumar , Indranil Chakrabarty , Arun Kumar Pati , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

TimeCluster is a visual analytics technique for discovering structure in long multivariate time series by projecting overlapping windows of data into a low-dimensional space. We show that, when Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is chosen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Christian L. Hines , Samuel Spillard , Daniel P. Martin

We study the structure of closed timelike curves (CTCs) for the near horizon limit of the five dimensional BMPV black hole, in its overrotating regime. We argue that Bousso's holographic screens are inside the chronologically safe region,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Bartomeu Fiol , Christiaan Hofman , Ernesto Lozano-Tellechea

It is shown that quantum particle detectors are not reliable probes of spacetime structure. In particular, they fail to distinguish between inertial and non-inertial motion in a general spacetime. To prove this, we consider detectors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Sebastiano Sonego , Hans Westman

We study the role that both vacuum fluctuations and vacuum entanglement of a scalar field play in identifying the spacetime topology, which is not prescribed from first principles---neither in general relativity or quantum gravity. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Eduardo Martin-Martinez , Alexander R. H. Smith , Daniel R. Terno

We study chiral models in one spatial dimension, both static and periodically driven. We demonstrate that their topological properties may be read out through the long time limit of a bulk observable, the mean chiral displacement. The…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-02 Maria Maffei , Alexandre Dauphin , Filippo Cardano , Maciej Lewenstein , Pietro Massignan

The global topology of spacetime, though invisible to local curvature measurements, leaves signatures on the correlation functions of quantum fields. We study these signatures using an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector operating in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-24 Nirmalya Kajuri , Sheeshram Siddh

A number of tools have been developed to detect topological phase transitions in strongly correlated quantum systems. They apply under different conditions, but do not cover the full range of many-body models. It is hence desirable to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-01-05 Sourav Manna , N. S. Srivatsa , Julia Wildeboer , Anne E. B. Nielsen

One way to study the physical plausibility of closed timelike curves (CTCs) is to examine their computational power. This has been done for Deutschian CTCs (D-CTCs) and post-selection CTCs (P-CTCs), with the result that they allow for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-07 Mateus Araújo , Philippe Allard Guérin , Ämin Baumeler

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

Quantum computation with quantum data that can traverse closed timelike curves represents a new physical model of computation. We argue that a model of quantum computation in the presence of closed timelike curves can be formulated which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dave Bacon

Cosmological particle creation is the phenomenon by which the expansion of spacetime results in the production of particles of a given quantum field in that spacetime. In this paper, we study this phenomenon by considering a multi-level…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Laura Niermann , Luis C. Barbado