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How many systems can be dephased before the quantum switch becomes causally definite?

arXiv
Authors: Yassine Benhaj, Kuntal Sengupta, Cyril Branciard

Year

2026

Paper ID

63658

Status

Preprint

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Abstract

Quantum processes with indefinite causal order - so-called causally nonseparable processes - can exhibit various advantages over quantum circuits with a fixed or a well-defined causal structure. A natural question is how much nonclassicality is required for a process to display causal nonseparability. Here we address this by investigating how many systems can be dephased (or decohered) before this property vanishes. First, for bipartite processes with open past and future we show that if all systems are dephased, or if only the future system is kept undephased, then the process becomes causally separable. However, if any single system other than the future system remains undephased, then there exist processes that retain causal nonseparability. Next, we demonstrate a similar behaviour in the multipartite case, when restricted to the physically motivated class of quantum circuits with quantum control (QC-QCs). Namely, dephasing all systems or keeping only the future system undephased renders any QC-QC causally separable; while causal nonseparability can persist if any non-future system is left undephased.

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