11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Causal Mediation in Quantum Causal Models

14 Dec 2022, 14:00
30m
Room R6 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R6

Adelaide Convention Centre

Invited talk AIP: Quantum Science and Technology AIP: Quantum Science and Technology

Speaker

Eric Cavalcanti (Griffith University)

Description

We analyse the ontological models framework underlying Spekkens' formalism for contextuality, in the light of quantum causal models. We argue that QCMs can maintain the spirit of noncontextuality by rejecting classical assumptions about how intermediate causes screen off correlations.

Primary authors

Jason Pearl (Griffith University) Markus Frembs (Griffith University) Eric Cavalcanti (Griffith University)

Presentation materials