Higher-order interference in extensions of quantum theory
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Abstract: Quantum interference lies at the heart of several quantum computational speed-ups and provides a striking example of a phenomenon with no classical counterpart. An intriguing feature of quantum interference arises in a three slit experiment. In this set-up, the interference pattern can be written in terms of the two and one slit patterns obtained by blocking some of the slits. This is in stark contrast with the standard two slit experiment, where the interference pattern is irreducible. This was first noted by Rafael Sorkin, who asked why quantum theory only exhibits irreducible interference in the two slit experiment. One approach to this problem is to compare the predictions of quantum theory to those of operationally-defined `foil' theories, in the hope of determining whether theories exhibiting higher-order interference suffer from pathological--or at least undesirable--features. In this paper two proposed extensions of quantum theory are considered: the theory of Density Cubes proposed by Dakic et al., which has been shown to exhibit irreducible interference in the three slit set-up, and the Quartic Quantum Theory of Zyczkowski. The theory of Density Cubes will be shown to provide an advantage over quantum theory in a certain computational task and to posses a well-defined mechanism which leads to the emergence of quantum theory. Despite this, the axioms used to define Density Cubes will be shown to be insufficient to uniquely characterise the theory. In comparison, Quartic Quantum Theory is well-defined and we show that it exhibits irreducible interference to all orders. This feature of the theory is argued not to be a genuine phenomenon, but to arise from an ambiguity in the current definition of higher-order interference. To understand why quantum theory has limited interference therefore, a new operational definition of higher-order interference is needed.
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