The operational no-signalling constraints and their implications

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23702v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:57:33 GMT
• Title: The operational no-signalling constraints and their implications
• Authors: Michał Eckstein, Tomasz Miller, Ryszard Horodecki, Ravishankar Ramanathan, Paweł Horodecki,
• Abstract summary: We establish a unified framework in the form of operational no-signalling constraints to study nonlocal and temporal correlations.<n>We show that the violation of the operational no-signalling constraints in Minkowski spacetime implies either a logical paradox or an operational infringement of Poincaré symmetry.<n>In black hole spacetimes certain nonlocal correlations can be jammed by any agent without spoiling the operational no-signalling constraints.
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• Abstract: The study of quantum correlations within relativistic spacetimes, and the consequences of relativistic causality on information processing using such correlations, has gained much attention in recent years. In this paper, we establish a unified framework in the form of operational no-signalling constraints to study both nonlocal and temporal correlations within general relativistic spacetimes. We explore several intriguing consequences arising from our framework. Firstly, we show that the violation of the operational no-signalling constraints in Minkowski spacetime implies either a logical paradox or an operational infringement of Poincaré symmetry. We thereby examine and subvert recent claims in [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 110401 (2022)] on the possibility of witnessing operationally detectable causal loops in Minkowski spacetime. Secondly, we explore the possibility of jamming of nonlocal correlations, controverting a recent claim in [Nat. Comm. 16, 269 (2025)] that a physical mechanism for jamming would necessarily lead to superluminal signalling. Finally, we show that in black hole spacetimes certain nonlocal correlations under and across the event horizon can be jammed by any agent without spoiling the operational no-signalling constraints.

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