Entanglement, Complexity, and Causal Asymmetry in Quantum Theories

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06742v1
• Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 03:41:18 GMT
• Title: Entanglement, Complexity, and Causal Asymmetry in Quantum Theories
• Authors: Porter Williams
• Abstract summary: It is often claimed that one cannot locate a notion of causation in fundamental physical theories. I argue that this is incorrect: the ubiquitous generation of entanglement between quantum systems grounds a relevant in the dynamical evolution of quantum systems.
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• Abstract: It is often claimed that one cannot locate a notion of causation in fundamental physical theories. The reason most commonly given is that the dynamics of those theories do not support any distinction between the past and the future, and this vitiates any attempt to locate a notion of causal asymmetry -- and thus of causation -- in fundamental physical theories. I argue that this is incorrect: the ubiquitous generation of entanglement between quantum systems grounds a relevant asymmetry in the dynamical evolution of quantum systems. I show that by exploiting a connection between the amount of entanglement in a quantum state and the algorithmic complexity of that state, one can use recently developed tools for causal inference to identify a causal asymmetry -- and a notion of causation -- in the dynamical evolution of quantum systems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-022-00562-0

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