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Trapped Ion Quantum Computing

Indefinite Causal Orders from Superpositions in Time

arXiv
Authors: David Felce, Nicetu Tibau Vidal, Vlatko Vedral, Eduardo O. Dias

Year

2021

Paper ID

63155

Status

Preprint

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Abstract

Treating the time of an event as a quantum variable, we derive a scheme in which superpositions in time are used to perform operations in an indefinite causal order. We use some aspects of a recently developed space-time-symmetric formalism of events. We propose a specific implementation of the scheme and recover the Quantum SWITCH, where quantum operations are performed in an order which is entangled with the state of a control qubit. Our scheme does not rely on any exotic quantum gravitational effect, but instead on phenomena which are naturally fuzzy in time, such as the decay of an excited atom.

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  • Treating the time of an event as a quantum variable, we derive a scheme in which superpositions in time are used to perform operations in an indefinite causal order.

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