Does causal dynamics imply local interactions?

We consider quantum systems with causal dynamics in discrete spacetimes, also known as quantum cellular automata (QCA). Due to time-discreteness this type of dynamics is not characterized by a Hamiltonian but by a one-time-step unitary. This can be written as the exponential of a Hamiltonian but in...

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Main Authors: Zoltán Zimborás, Terry Farrelly, Szilárd Farkas, Lluis Masanes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Verein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 2022-06-01
Series:Quantum
Online Access:https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2022-06-29-748/pdf/