Quantum Common Causes and Quantum Causal Models

Reichenbach’s principle asserts that if two observed variables are found to be correlated, then there should be a causal explanation of these correlations. Furthermore, if the explanation is in terms of a common cause, then the conditional probability distribution over the variables given the comple...

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Main Authors: John-Mark A. Allen, Jonathan Barrett, Dominic C. Horsman, Ciarán M. Lee, Robert W. Spekkens
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2017-07-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.7.031021