Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Cyclic quantum causal models

  • Jonathan Barrett,
  • Robin Lorenz,
  • Ognyan Oreshkov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20456-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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While unusual processes allowing indefinite causal order are gaining attention in quantum physics, formalisms describing definite causal structures have so far been limited to acyclic ones. Here the authors extend to the cyclic case, offering a causal perspective on causally indefinite processes.