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We propose a quantum clock synchronization protocol in which Bob makes a remote measurement on Alice's quantum clock via a third qubit acting as its proxy. It is shown that the resulting correlations are dependent on the choice of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Srikanth

We show that, by utilising temporal quantum correlations as expressed by pseudo-density operators (PDOs), it is possible to recover formally the standard quantum dynamical evolution as a sequence of teleportations in time. We demonstrate…

Contrary to general relativity, quantum theory treats space and time in fundamentally different ways. In particular, while joint probabilities associated with spacelike separated measurements are defined in terms of the Born rule, joint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 James Fullwood , Zhihao Ma , Zhen Wu

In the operator formalism of quantum mechanics, the density operator describes the complete statistics of a quantum state in terms of d^2 independent elements, where d is the number of possible outcomes for a precise measurement of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-30 Holger F. Hofmann

We have previously shown (arXiv:1912.00033) that three approaches to relational quantum dynamics -- relational Dirac observables, the Page-Wootters formalism and quantum deparametrizations -- are equivalent. Here we show that this `trinity'…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-24 Philipp A. Hoehn , Alexander R. H. Smith , Maximilian P. E. Lock

Spatial and temporal quantum correlations can be unified in the framework of the pseudo-density operators, and quantum causality between the involved events in an experiment is encoded in the corresponding pseudo-density operator. We study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Zhian Jia , Minjeong Song , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

There are self-adjoint operators which determine both spectral and semispectral measures. These measures have very different commutativity and covariance properties. This fact poses a serious question on the physical meaning of such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-19 D. A. Dubin , M. A. Hennings , P. Lahti , J. -P. Pellonpaa

Local operators are the basic observables in quantum field theory which encode the physics observed by a local experimentalist. However, when gravity is dynamical, diffeomorphism symmetries are gauged which apparently obstructs a sensible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-11 Hao Geng

In the last decades, noncommutative spacetimes and their deformed relativistic symmetries have usually been studied in the context of field theory, replacing the ordinary Minkowski background with an algebra of noncommutative coordinates.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-21 Alessandro Moia

The absolute/relative debate on the nature of space and time is ongoing for thousands of years. Here we attempt to investigate space and time from the information theoretic point of view to understand spatial and temporal correlations under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-22 Tian Zhang

Quantum correlations often defy an explanation in terms of fundamental notions of classical physics, such as causality, locality, and realism. While the mathematical theory underpinning quantum correlations between spacelike separated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 James Fullwood , Boyu Yang

In recent years, time correlators have received renewed attention, especially under the guise of identifiers of nonclassical correlations. However, the physical interpretation of these objects, and more generally of multi-times variables,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Lucas Maquedano , Alexandre D. Ribeiro , Ana C. S. Costa , Renato M. Angelo

In quantum information and communication one looks for the non-classical features like interference and quantum correlations to harness the true power of composite systems. We show how the concept akin to interference is, in fact,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Lin Zhang , Arun Kumar Pati , Junde Wu

The relativistic conception of space and time is challenged by the quantum nature of physical observables. It has been known for a long time that Poincar\'e symmetry of field theory can be extended to the larger conformal symmetry. We use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

Two quantum events, represented by positive operators (effects), are coexistent if they can occur as possible outcomes in a single measurement scheme. Equivalently, the corresponding effects are coexistent if and only if they are contained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-20 Paul Busch , Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt

Open classical and quantum systems have attracted great interest in the past two decades. These include systems described by non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with parity-time $(\mathcal{PT})$ symmetry that are best understood as systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-22 Kaustubh S. Agarwal , Jacob Muldoon , Yogesh N. Joglekar

In many a traditional physics textbook, a quantum measurement is defined as a projective measurement represented by a Hermitian operator. In quantum information theory, however, the concept of a measurement is dealt with in complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-06 Ravi Kunjwal , Chris Heunen , Tobias Fritz

Quantum correlations in composite and separable quantum systems are characterized by non-vanishing quantum discord. We demonstrate the necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of hermitian witness operators for quantum discord,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-01 S. Adhikari , A. S. Majumdar , I. Chakraborty

Challenging Mermin's perspective that ``correlations have physical reality; that which they correlate does not'' we argue that correlations and correlata are not fundamentally distinct. These are dual concepts depending on the tensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Marek Czachor , Marcin Nowakowski

The kinematic time operator can be naturally defined in relativistic and nonrelativistic quantum mechanics (QM) by treating time on an equal footing with space. The spacetime-position operator acts in the Hilbert space of functions of space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 H. Nikolic