Time-asymmetry and causal structure

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2010-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/1010.4572v2

Physics

Quantum Physics

This paper has been withdrawn, as it's results are comprised in a more compelling manner in arXiv:1108.1988 [gr-qc]

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We consider devices with two inputs and two outputs, Alice and Bob each having access to one input and one output. To such a device we associate time-reverses by exchanging the roles of the inputs and the outputs. We find that there are devices which admit a local hidden variable representation, but for which time-reverses enable perfect signaling between Alice and Bob. That is, a `perfect channel in one time direction' becomes a `non-channel in the other direction'. Also, for PR boxes time-reverses enable signaling between Alice and Bob, but never as a perfect channel. These results undermine the representation of causal structures as partial orders or similar `time-symmetric structures', as is often assumed in search of a theory of quantum gravity. They also provide new insights into the structure of the polytope of generalized probabilistic correlations, and contribute to the growing area of research into quantum information processing in relativistic spacetimes.

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