corner
corner

Phys. Rev. A 72, 014304 (2005) [4 pages]

Testing quantum dynamics using signaling

Download: PDF (75 kB) Buy this article Export: BibTeX or EndNote (RIS)

Aditi Sen(De) and Ujjwal Sen
ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Jordi Girona 29, Edifici Nexus II, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain and Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany

Received 25 February 2004; published 14 July 2005

We consider a physical system in which the description of states and measurements follow the usual quantum mechanical rules. We also assume that the dynamics is linear, but may not be fully quantum (i.e., unitary). We show that in such a physical system, certain complementary evolutions, namely, cloning and deleting operations that give a better fidelity than quantum mechanically allowed ones, in one (inaccessible) region, lead to signaling to a far-apart (accessible) region. To show such signaling, one requires certain two-party quantum correlated states shared between the two regions. Subsequent measurements are performed only in the accessible part to detect such phenomenon.

© 2005 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.72.014304
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.72.014304
PACS:
03.67.Hk, 03.65.Ta, 42.50.Xa