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Nonlocality and quantum entanglement constitute two special aspects of the quantum correlations existing in quantum systems, which are of paramount importance in quantum-information theory. Traditionally, they have been regarded as…

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Quantum entanglement and quantum nonlocality of $N$-photon entangled states $|\psi_{N m}> =\mathcal{N}_{m}[\cos\gamma|N-m>_{1}|m>_{2} +e^{i\theta_{m}}\sin\gamma|m>_{1}|N-m>_{2}]$ and their superpositions are studied. We indicate that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yan-Hua Sun , Le-Man Kuang

Non-classical quantum correlations underpin both the foundations of quantum mechanics and modern quantum technologies. Among them, Bell nonlocality is a central example. For bipartite Bell inequalities, nonlocal correlations obey strict…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Gerard Anglès Munné , Paweł Cieśliński , Jan Wójcik , Wiesław Laskowski

Recent frameworks describing quantum mechanics in the absence of a global causal order admit the existence of causally indefinite processes, where it is impossible to ascribe causal order for events A and B. These frameworks even allow for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-11 Simon Milz , Dominic Jurkschat , Felix A. Pollock , Kavan Modi

It is a well-established fact that some quantum correlations can be nonlocal, meaning that they cannot be described by a local hidden variable model. Certain quantum correlations have a form of nonlocality so strong that they cannot be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Martin J. Renner , Edwin Peter Lobo , Arturo Konderak , Remigiusz Augusiak , Antonio Acín

Quantum mechanics allows the occurrence of events without having any definite causal order. Here, it is shown that the application of two different thermal channels in the causally inseparable order can enhance the potential to extract…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Tamal Guha , Mir Alimuddin , Preeti Parashar

We will show for undergraduate and graduate students of physics that Quantum Mechanics is an incomplete and non-local theory. The problem of non-locality is discussed by analyzing the Bell's theorem where are considered correlations between…

General Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 M. Cattani

In quantum mechanics, nonlocality (a violation of a Bell inequality) is intimately linked to complementarity, by which we mean that consistently assigning values to different observables at the same time is not possible. Nonlocality can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-02 Tobias Fritz

It is known that the global state of a composite quantum system can be completely determined by specifying correlations between measurements performed on subsystems only. Despite the fact that the quantum correlations thus suffice to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Seevinck

The concept of a superposition is a revolutionary novelty introduced by Quantum Mechanics. If a system may be in any one of two pure states x and y, we must consider that it may also be in any one of many superpositions of x and y. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-07 Daniel Lehmann

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

Departing from the usual paradigm of local operations and classical communication adopted in entanglement theory, here we study the interconversion of quantum states by means of local operations and shared randomness. A set of necessary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-18 Francesco Buscemi

This paper explains why internal and external validity cannot be simultaneously maximised. It introduces "evidential states" to represent the information available for causal inference and shows that routine study operations (restriction,…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-01 Daniel D. Reidpath

Experiments showing the violation of Bell inequalities have formed our belief that the world at its smallest is genuinely non-local. While many non-locality experiments use the first quantised picture, the physics of fields of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Libby Heaney , Janet Anders

Quantum mechanics allows processes to be superposed, leading to a genuinely quantum lack of causal structure. For example, the process known as the quantum switch applies two operations ${\cal A}$ and ${\cal B}$ in a superposition of the…

In this paper we introduce a very general setting dealing with the superposition of operators of any positive order and provide a systematic study of them. We also provide examples and counterexamples, as well as characterizing properties…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-10 Serena Dipierro , Sven Jarohs , Enrico Valdinoci

Causality never gained the status of a "law" or "principle" in physics. Some recent literature even popularized the false idea that causality is a notion that should be banned from theory. Such misconception relies on an alleged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-19 Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano

Understanding the relation between nonlocality and entanglement is one of the fundamental problems in quantum physics. In the bipartite case, it is known that the correlations observed for some entangled quantum states can be explained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 R. Augusiak , M. Demianowicz , J. Tura , A. Acín

For a special stochastic realistic model in certain spin-correlation experiments and without imposing the locality condition, an inequality is found. Then, it is shown that quantum theory is able (is possible) to violate this inequality.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Habibollah Razmi

Bell nonlocality refers to correlations between two distant, entangled particles that challenge classical notions of local causality. Beyond its foundational significance, nonlocality is crucial for device-independent technologies like…