Abstract
We review an argument that bipartite "PR-box" correlations, though designed to respect relativistic causality, in fact violate relativistic causality in the classical limit. As a test of this argument, we consider Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) correlations as a tripartite version of PR-box correlations, and ask whether the argument extends to GHZ correlations. If it does-i.e., if it shows that GHZ correlations violate relativistic causality in the classical limit-then the argument must be incorrect (since GHZ correlations do respect relativistic causality in the classical limit.) However, we find that the argument does not extend to GHZ correlations. We also show that both PR-box correlations and GHZ correlations can be retrocausal, but the retrocausality of PR-box correlations leads to self-contradictory causal loops, while the retrocausality of GHZ correlations does not.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 478 |
| Journal | Entropy |
| Volume | 20 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jun 2018 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments: We thank all the Referees for helpful comments. This publication was made possible through the support of grants from the John Templeton Foundation (Project ID 43297), from the Israel Science Foundation (grant no. 1190/13). The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of either of these supporting foundations.
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Keywords
- Axioms for quantum theory
- Classical limit
- Nonlocal correlations
- PR box
- Retrocausality