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Exploring the limits of no backward in time signalling

Quantum Physics 2019-12-11 v6

Abstract

We present an operational and model-independent framework to investigate the concept of no-backwards-in-time signaling. We define no-backwards-in-time signaling conditions, closely related to the spatial no-signaling conditions. These allow for theoretical possibilities in which the future affects the past, nevertheless without signaling backwards in time. This is analogous to non-local but no-signaling spatial correlations. Furthermore, our results shed new light on situations with indefinite causal structure and their connection to quantum theory.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00669,
  title  = {Exploring the limits of no backward in time signalling},
  author = {Yelena Guryanova and Ralph Silva and Anthony J. Short and Paul Skrzypczyk and Nicolas Brunner and Sandu Popescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00669},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

10 pages, 3 figures, v2: reference added

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