A decompositional framework for process theories in spacetime

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08266v1
• Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2024 00:37:55 GMT
• Title: A decompositional framework for process theories in spacetime
• Authors: Matthias Salzger, John H. Selby,
• Abstract summary: We show how to extend the formalism of process theories to incorporate a background causal structure arising from a fixed spacetime. Future directions include extending the framework to indefinite causal structures and studying exotic causal influence.
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• Abstract: There has been a recent surge in interest in quantum foundations coming from incorporating ideas from general relativity and quantum gravity. In particular, the field of indefinite causal order has emerged and is now an important research topic in its own right. Many of the tools that we use in quantum foundations and information, are, however, totally agnostic as to the underlying spacetime in which the quantum systems live. To give a practical example, whenever we draw a quantum circuit we are not taking into account the connectivity of the physical qubits which will realize this circuit. In this work, we aim to address this limitation. In particular, we show how to extend the formalism of process theories (a framework to study both quantum and post-quantum theories) to incorporate a background causal structure arising from a fixed spacetime. We discuss when processes are embeddable in spacetime under certain constraints. To this end, we introduce the concept of implementations of a process, which are decompositions of the process. A process is then embeddable if one of its implementations can be embedded in such a way that all the processes are localized and all wires follow time-like paths. The set of all implementations of a process is a rather unwieldy object but we show that there exists a subset with useful properties which tells us everything we need to know about the remaining implementations and the embeddability of a process. We call this subset the set of minimal representatives. Future directions include defining and analysing the compositional structure of the framework more rigorously, extending the framework to indefinite causal structures, studying exotic causal influence, and using the minimal representatives to probe the decompositional structure of quantum theory and beyond.

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