Quantum correlation engineering and the causal structure

TL;DR

This paper presents a method to engineer the causal structure of spacetime by manipulating quantum correlations and entanglement, enabling modifications of light propagation speed without exotic matter, using accessible quantum information techniques.

Contribution

It introduces a novel approach to control causal structure through quantum informational principles and ancilla-based entanglement manipulation, linking quantum correlations to spacetime properties.

Findings

Quantum entanglement can modify the classical propagation speed of light.

The Uhlmann gauge theory provides a framework to access quantum informational structures.

Experimental tools in quantum optics can realize these causal modifications.

Abstract

Starting with the assumption that propagation of classical light determines the causal structure of spacetime and the assumption that the causal structure may be emergent from quantum correlations I show a method through which the causal structure can be engineered by the manipulation of carefully chosen ancillas that allow the manipulation of properties of classical light by means of a quantum entanglement structure obtained using an ancilla purification of classical light. The application of Uhlmann gauge and the creation of a dynamical Uhlmann gauge theory enables us to access the quantum informational structure that determines the classical propagation speed of light in vacuum, and hence gives us a dictionary that allows us to modify the quantum entanglement structure that determines the causal structure. As such, a modification of the causal structure is obtained from purely quantum informational principles, without the need for any "exotic" matter or other impossible types, geometries, or distributions of matter inside a relativistic stress energy tensor. In fact, it is shown that the quantum information tools necessary to produce measurable modifications of the causal structure are experimentally accessible today in a quantum optics or quantum sensors lab.