Quantum Time Travel Revisited: Noncommutative Möbius Transformations and Time Loops

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08543v3
• Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 21:50:30 GMT
• Title: Quantum Time Travel Revisited: Noncommutative Möbius Transformations and Time Loops
• Authors: J. E. Gough,
• Abstract summary: We extend the theory of quantum time loops introduced by Greenberger and Svozil to the general situation where the time traveling system has multi-dimensional underlying Hilbert space. The main mathematical tool which emerges is the noncommutative Mobius Transformation. We analyze some Grandfather paradoxes in the new setting.
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• Abstract: We extend the theory of quantum time loops introduced by Greenberger and Svozil [1] from the scalar situation (where paths have just an associated complex amplitude) to the general situation where the time traveling system has multi-dimensional underlying Hilbert space. The main mathematical tool which emerges is the noncommutative Mobius Transformation and this affords a formalism similar to the modular structure well known to feedback control problems. The self-consistency issues that plague other approaches do not arise in this approach as we do not consider completely closed time loops. We argue that a sum-over-all-paths approach may be carried out in the scalar case, but quickly becomes unwieldy in the general case. It is natural to replace the beamsplitters of [1] with more general components having their own quantum structure, in which case the theory starts to resemble the quantum feedback networks theory for open quantum optical models and indeed we exploit this to look at more realistic physical models of time loops. We analyze some Grandfather paradoxes in the new setting.

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