Rethinking Causality in Quantum Mechanics

• Main Author: Giarmatzi, Christina (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,
• Subjects: Quantum physics.; Quantum computers.; Physics.; Quantum Physics.; Quantum Computing.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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" an...

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.