Closed timelike curves via post-selection: theory and experimental demonstration

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2010-05-12

arxiv.org/abs/1005.2219v1

Phys.Rev.Lett.106:040403,2011

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.040403

Closed timelike curves (CTCs) are trajectories in spacetime that effectively travel backwards in time: a test particle following a CTC can in principle interact with its former self in the past. CTCs appear in many solutions of Einstein's field equations and any future quantum version of general relativity will have to reconcile them with the requirements of quantum mechanics and of quantum field theory. A widely accepted quantum theory of CTCs was proposed by Deutsch. Here we explore an alternative quantum formulation of CTCs and show that it is physically inequivalent to Deutsch's. Because it is based on combining quantum teleportation with post-selection, the predictions/retrodictions of our theory are experimentally testable: we report the results of an experiment demonstrating our theory's resolution of the well-known `grandfather paradox.

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