TY - JOUR
T1 - GHZ states as tripartite PR boxes
T2 - Classical limit and retrocausality
AU - Rohrlich, Daniel
AU - Hetzroni, Guy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by the authors.
PY - 2018/6/1
Y1 - 2018/6/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Axioms for quantum theory
KW - Classical limit
KW - Nonlocal correlations
KW - PR box
KW - Retrocausality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066623881&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/E20060478
DO - 10.3390/E20060478
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AN - SCOPUS:85066623881
SN - 1099-4300
VL - 20
JO - Entropy
JF - Entropy
IS - 6
M1 - 478
ER -