Tsirelson bounds for quantum correlations with indefinite causal order

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.02749v2
• Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2024 10:58:20 GMT
• Title: Tsirelson bounds for quantum correlations with indefinite causal order
• Authors: Zixuan Liu, Giulio Chiribella,
• Abstract summary: We provide a general method for bounding the violation of arbitrary causal inequalities. We prove that the maximum violation is generally smaller than the algebraic maximum. Surprisingly, we find that the algebraic maximum of arbitrary causal inequalities can be achieved by a new type of processes.
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• Abstract: Quantum theory is in principle compatible with processes that violate causal inequalities, an analogue of Bell inequalities that constrain the correlations observed by a set of parties operating in a definite causal order. Since the introduction of causal inequalities, determining their maximum quantum violation, analogue to Tsirelson's bound for Bell inequalities, has remained an open problem. Here we provide a general method for bounding the violation of arbitrary causal inequalities, establishing limits on the correlations achievable by arbitrary local experiments and by arbitrary quantum processes with indefinite causal order. We prove that the maximum violation is generally smaller than the algebraic maximum, and determine Tsirelson-like bounds for a class of causal inequalities including some of the most paradigmatic examples. Surprisingly, we find that the algebraic maximum of arbitrary causal inequalities can be achieved by a new type of processes that allow for information to flow in an indefinite temporal direction within the parties' laboratories.

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