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Entropic limitations on fixed causal order

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Pith's one-line read Every fixed-causal-order process obeys an entropy inequality; violating it certifies the process is not fixed causal order.

desk verdict New entropic certificate for non-fixed causal order with a clean proof for trivial-global-past processes, but the advertised scope overreaches and the marginal I2 witness needs a complete proof. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.13681 v1 pith:7CGYEFL4 submitted 2025-05-19 quant-ph

Matheus Capela , Kaumudibikash Goswami This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

The paper asks how an experimenter can tell, using only entropy measurements on accessible systems, that a quantum process cannot be explained by a fixed order of events. It answers with a pair of information inequalities that every bipartite non-Markovian (fixed causal order) process must satisfy after the local agents feed halves of maximally entangled states into their laboratories. When both inequalities fail for a given process, that process is not compatible with any fixed causal order: it is causally separable or has indefinite causal order. The inequalities are established for von Neumann entropy, for Rényi entropies with $\alpha \in [1/2,1)\cup(1,\infty)$, and for max- and min-entropies, and the quantum switch is shown to violate them. This provides an entropy-based route to certifying non-fixed causal order without full process tomography.

What carries the argument

The mechanism is an interventional construction combined with monotonicity of quantum relative entropy. Feeding the $A_1$ and $B_1$ systems with halves of maximally entangled states makes the reduced channel on the environment a completely factorizable channel that sends maximally mixed states to maximally mixed states; Lemma 1 then bounds the entropy increase of any state through such a channel by $\log_2(\dim(\text{output})/\dim(\text{input}))$. Because the post-intervention global state is pure, the entropy of any complementary bipartition equals the entropy of its complement, which carries the environment dimension bound into the accessible-system inequality. A purification lemma shows every non-Markovian process can be represented by pure state preparation followed by unitaries, completing the proof.

What would settle it

Construct a concrete fixed-order process with a non-trivial global past system $P$, for example by starting with a correlated state between $P$ and the environment, apply the same maximally-entangled interventions, and compute the entropy difference in Eq. (9); if it drops below $\log_2(\dim(B_1)/\dim(F))$, the inequality is not necessary for fixed causal order and the 'without loss of generality' reduction is false.

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Core claim

The central result is Theorem 1: for any bipartite process with fixed causal order $A\preceq B$ and global future $F$, the state $\tau$ obtained by feeding halves of maximally entangled states at $A_1$ and $B_1$ satisfies $H(A_0A_1B_0B_1F)_\tau - H(A_0A_1B_0)_\tau \ge \log_2(\dim(B_1)/\dim(F))$. The symmetric bound, with $A$ and $B$ interchanged, applies to processes of the form $B\preceq A$. A process that violates both bounds cannot be represented as a fixed-order quantum comb; it is either causally separable or indefinite causal ordered. The proof forces the environment to evolve through a channel that preserves maximally mixed states, so monotonicity of quantum relative entropy gives a dimension-dependent entropy increase; purity of the post-intervention state then converts environment entropies into entropies of the accessible output systems. The same reasoning extends to Rényi entropies with $\alpha\in[1/2,1)\cup(1,\infty)$ and to max- and min-entropies.

Load-bearing premise

The load-bearing premise is that a fixed-causal-order process can be assumed to have no non-trivial global past system; the proof asserts this 'without loss of generality' but does not reduce away a genuine past system, so a fixed-order process with such a past could evade the entropy bound and be misclassified.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Violating both the $A\preceq B$ and $B\preceq A$ bounds for the same interventional state is a sufficient certificate that the process is not fixed causal order, and it requires only entropies of the accessible systems rather than full process tomography.
  • The quantum switch violates the inequalities, and for the switch and its causally separable mixture $\Upsilon_1$ the certification succeeds for every non-extreme control parameter $0<\lambda<1$; for the variant with the target output discarded, certification succeeds on an intermediate range of $\lambda$.
  • Combining the main inequality with strong subadditivity of quantum entropy yields marginal witnesses $I_1$ and $I_2$ that are computable from subsystem states alone, although they are never stronger than the full witness.
  • For Rényi parameters $\alpha\in[1/2,1)$, the inequalities are more sensitive for the $\Upsilon_2$ process than the von Neumann entropy version, while parameters $\alpha>1$ and the max- and min-entropies are less sensitive.
  • When $\dim(B_1)\ge\dim(F)$, the inequality simplifies to $H(A_0A_1B_0B_1F)_\tau \ge H(A_0A_1B_0)_\tau$, an immediate necessary condition for fixed causal order.

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Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the global-past reduction can be completed by absorbing the past system $P$ into the environment preparation, the same entropic bound should apply to processes with a non-trivial global past; the paper's 'without loss of generality' leaves that step open.
  • Because the Rényi parameter can be tuned continuously in $\alpha\in[1/2,1)$, the inequalities could be used as a family of witnesses rather than a single fixed one; the paper does not report an exhaustive optimisation over $\alpha$.
  • The marginal witnesses are computable from reduced states alone, which suggests that suitably modified versions could lead toward the semi-device-dependent or device-independent entropic causal inequalities the paper flags as a future direction.
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Summary. The paper proposes entropic inequalities that are claimed to hold for every bipartite quantum process with fixed causal order (non-Markovian process), and whose violation certifies that the process is not fixed causal order, i.e., it is causally separable or has indefinite causal order. The main inequality, Theorem 1, states that after feeding halves of maximally entangled states at the local output systems A1 and B1, the resulting state τ obeys H(A0A1B0B1F) − H(A0A1B0) ≥ log2(dim B1 / dim F) for a process of the form A⪯B. The proof in Appendix A proceeds through three lemmas: relative entropy monotonicity for channels preserving maximally mixed states, an intervention argument using a pure-state unitary dilation, and a purification result converting the general non-Markovian form into a unitary circuit. The authors apply the inequality to the quantum switch, discuss marginal witnesses derived from strong subadditivity, and generalize the inequality to Rényi, max-, and min-entropies.

Significance. The proposed inequalities are attractive and potentially useful witnesses: they are simple, entropic, device-dependent tests that require only marginal information, and the proof is self-contained using standard tools (relative entropy monotonicity, Stinespring dilation, strong subadditivity). The Rényi extension, with the demonstrated advantage for parameters in [1/2,1), is a useful addition. However, the significance is currently limited by a scope mismatch: the proof in Appendix A and Definition 1 concern processes with a trivial global past, while the abstract, the theorem statement, and the main application (the quantum switch) involve processes with a non-trivial global past system. If this scope issue is resolved by either restricting the claims or supplying the missing reduction, the result would be a clean and useful contribution to the information-theoretic certification of indefinite causal order.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section III A and Appendix A (Lemma 2, Lemma 3)] The proof of Theorem 1 assumes, via the opening phrase 'without loss of generality' in Section III A, that the process has no non-trivial global past system P. This is not justified. Definition 1 defines fixed causal order A⪯B only through an initial state in L(A0⊗E0) and operations Λ1, Λ2, with no P; Lemma 3 is a purification of exactly that form. For a fixed-order process with a non-trivial global past P, the interventional state after feeding the maximally entangled states is not a pure state on A0⊗A1⊗B0⊗B1⊗F⊗Q2 alone: the system P (or a preparation-dependent marginal of it) enters the entropy equalities, and the identities H(Q2)=H(A0A1B0B1F) and H(Q1)=H(A0A1B0) used in Lemma 2 fail unless P is traced out in a way that changes the process. No reduction is given that absorbs P into A0, B0, or the initial preparation without altering the local operations or the dimensions in Eq. (9). Thus Eq. (9) is unproven for exactly the class of processes—such as the quantum switch, whose global past is T0⊗C0—that the paper aims to certify. Please either restrict the theorem to trivial-P processes and state the switch application as a derived process with fixed input states on P, or extend the proof to include non-trivial P.
  2. [Section II A (Definition 1)] Definition 1 and the surrounding text restrict the notion of fixed causal order to processes with a trivial global past: the initial state is on A0⊗E0 and the output is a state on F. The sentence 'the most general fixed causal order processes ... are quantum processes with a trivial global past system' is in tension with the process matrix formalism introduced in Eq. (6), where the process matrix is an operator on P⊗A0⊗A1⊗B0⊗B1⊗F, and also with the quantum switch used later, which has a non-trivial global past. If the authors intend to work only with trivial-P processes, the theorem and abstract should say so explicitly; if they intend the general fixed-order class, the proof and the reduction from P to the trivial-P case must be supplied. This is not a cosmetic point, because the witness inequality (9) and its violation depend on the dimensions and on whether P is retained.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Section III D] The parameter range for which the Rényi properties are claimed is written as 1/2<α<1, while the abstract and the theorem use α∈[1/2,1). Since the cited Frank–Lieb monotonicity holds at α=1/2, please make the text consistent.
  2. [Section III D] In the sentence 'Now, we focus on quantum processes A⪯B for which the global future is such that dim(F) is not larger than dim B1. Similar reasoning holds for processes of the form A⪯B, interchanging A and B', the second 'A⪯B' should be 'B⪯A'.
  3. [Lemma 2 and Fig. 1(c)] The systems called A1 and B1 in the entropy expressions are actually the reference halves \bar A1 and \bar B1 of the maximally entangled states; the notation is suppressed via the statement X≃X, but this should be stated in the main text of Theorem 1 as well, to avoid confusion.
  4. [Figures 2–4] The figure captions refer to DP1, DP_A⪯B;α, and similar quantities without explicitly defining the plotted expressions; please add equations or refer consistently to Eqs. (11)–(15) so the reader can reproduce the plots.

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The derivation is self-contained; the flagged global-past scope gap is a correctness concern, not circularity.

full rationale

I walked the paper's derivation chain through Lemmas 1–3. Lemma 1 is the standard relative-entropy monotonicity for channels that preserve the maximally mixed state; Lemma 2 applies it to the completely factorizable channel produced by the maximally-entangled interventions, using only purity identities and dimension counting; Lemma 3 is the standard purification/dilation decomposition of Definition 1. None of these steps assumes the target inequality, fits a parameter, or defines the witness in terms of the outcome. The self-citations to Refs. [24,25] are background motivation for data-processing witnesses and are not load-bearing in the proof; the Rényi extension relies on external results [55,56]. The only flagged issue is Section III A's 'without loss of generality' restriction to a global future while Definition 1 and Lemma 3 realize fixed-order processes only with trivial global past: processes with non-trivial global past P are not covered by Eq. (9), so the abstract may overstate the theorem's scope. That is a correctness risk, not a circular reduction, because Eq. (9) is not assumed as an input anywhere and the proof is anchored in standard external information-theoretic facts.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard quantum information theorems and on the process formalism's definition of fixed causal order. The only non-standard assumption is the triviality of the global past, which is not fully justified. No free parameters are fitted, and no new physical entities are introduced.

assumptions (5)
  • standard math Monotonicity of quantum relative entropy under CPTP maps
    Used in Lemma 1 to prove that unital channels increase von Neumann entropy with a dimension-dependent bound.
  • standard math Strong subadditivity of von Neumann entropy
    Used in Section III C to derive the marginal witnesses I1 and I2 from the main inequality.
  • domain assumption Every non-Markovian process with fixed causal order can be purified to a pure state preparation and unitary operations
    Lemma 3 uses Stinespring dilations and purification, but relies on the process having trivial global past.
  • domain assumption The bipartite process has no non-trivial global past
    Stated as 'without loss of generality' in Section III A, but no reduction is given for processes with a global past system P.
  • domain assumption Rényi entropy monotonicity for unital channels holds for α in [1/2,1) ∪ (1,∞)
    Cited to Ref. [55] (Frank and Lieb) and used to extend the inequality to Rényi entropies.

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abstract

Quantum processes can exhibit scenarios beyond a fixed order of events. We propose information inequalities that, when violated, constitute sufficient conditions to certify quantum processes without a fixed causal order -- causally separable or indefinite causal ordered processes. The inequalities hold valid for a vast class of information measures. Nevertheless, we take under scrutiny the von Neumann, $\alpha-$R\'enyi entropies with parameter $\alpha \in [1/2,1) \cup (1,\infty)$, and max- and min-entropies. We also discuss how the strong subadditivity of quantum (von Neumann) entropy, used along with the information inequality developed here, implies relevant witnesses of causally separable and indefinite causal ordered processes in marginal scenarios. Importantly, we show the violation of these inequalities for the quantum switch, a paradigmatic example of a process with indefinite causal order. Our approach contributes to the important research direction of information-theoretic characterization of quantum processes beyond fixed causal orders.

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Figure 1. FIG. 1. Quantum processes and interventions on non-Markovian [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. FIG. 2. Violation of the information inequalities for the quantum [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. FIG. 3. Marginal witnesses I [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: FIG. 4. Rényi information inequalities DP for the quantum switch [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png]
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Figure 5. Figure 5: FIG. 5. Supermap described in Lemma [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png]

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