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arxiv: 0708.0449 · v1 · submitted 2007-08-03 · 🪐 quant-ph · gr-qc

Unitary Solution to a Quantum Gravity Information Paradox

classification 🪐 quant-ph gr-qc
keywords paradoxquantumgravityinformationqubitunitaryanalysiscareful
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We consider a toy model of the interaction of a qubit with an exotic space-time containing a time-like curve. Consistency seems to require that the global evolution of the qubit be non-unitary. Given that quantum mechanics is globally unitary, this then is an example of a quantum gravity information paradox. However, we show that a careful analysis of the problem in the Heisenberg picture reveals an underlying unitarity, thus resolving the paradox.

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