Quantum coherence and closed timelike curves
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Quantum coherence and closed timelike curves.
Various calculations of the S matrix have shown that it seems to be non unitary for interacting fields when there are closed timelike curves. It is argued that this is because there is loss of quantum coherence caused by the fact that part of the quantum state circulates on the closed timelike curves and is not measured at infinity. A prescription is given for calculating the superscattering ma...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review D
سال: 1995
ISSN: 0556-2821
DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.52.5681