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  title info:
    title: Rethinking Causality in Quantum Mechanics
  name:
    name part: Giarmatzi, Christina.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XV, 157 p. 35 illus., 15 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Causality is central to understanding the mechanisms of nature: some event "A" is the cause of another event "B". Surprisingly, causality does not follow this simple rule in quantum physics: due to to quantum superposition we might be led to believe that "A causes B" and that "B causes A". This idea is not only important to the foundations of physics but also leads to practical advantages: a quantum circuit with such indefinite causality performs computationally better than one with definite causality. This thesis provides one of the first comprehensive introductions to quantum causality, and presents a number of advances.It provides an extension and generalization of a framework that enables us to study causality within quantum mechanics, thereby setting the stage for the rest of the work. This comprises: mathematical tools to define causality in terms of probabilities; computational tools to prove indefinite causality in an experiment; means to experimentally test particular causal structures; and finally an algorithm that detects the exact causal structure in an quantum experiment.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Causal and causally separable processes -- Witnessing causal nonseparability: theory and experiment -- Causal polytopes -- Experimental test of a classical causal model for quantum correlations -- A quantum causal discovery algorithm -- Conclusions.
  note: by Christina Giarmatzi.
  subject:
    topic: Quantum physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum computers
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Physics
  subject:
    topic: Quantum Computing
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
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  identifier: 9783030319304
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31930-4
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