Information causality

Information causality is a physical principle suggested in 2009. Information Causality states that information gain that a receiver (Bob) can reach about data, previously unknown to him, from a sender (Alice), by using all his local resources and ${\displaystyle n}$ classical bits communicated by the sender, is at most ${\displaystyle n}$ bits.

The principle assumes classical communication: if quantum bits were allowed to be transmitted the information gain could be higher as demonstrated in the quantum superdense coding protocol. The principle is respected by all correlations accessible with quantum physics while it excludes all no-signaling correlations which violate the quantum Tsirelson bound.

See also

• Tsirelson's bound
• Quantum nonlocality

References

• Marcin Pawlowski, Tomasz Paterek, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Valerio Scarani, Andreas Winter, and Marek Zukowski, Information Causality as a Physical Principle, Nature 461, 1101 (2009). arXiv:0905.2292 [quant-ph]