2020/12/14 by Shih-Yuin Lin, B. L. Hu
Computer Science · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Biofield Effects and Biophysics #Classical mechanics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum channel #Quantum entanglement #Quantum information #Quantum information science #Quantum mechanics #Quantum teleportation #Teleportation #Theoretical physics #gr-qc #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1361-6382/ac1080
21 pages, 4 figures
arxiv created 2020/12/14 · openalex publication_date 2021/07/01 · arxiv updated 2021/08/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Abstract Quantum information (QI) experiments applying quantum optics in outer space with a very long baseline may have advantages over the current Earth-bound experiments or the Earth-to-satellite experiments, because they can minimize the loss in light transmission and maximize the gain in time resolution. This future class of experiments, among them quantum teleportation and entanglement swapping, can shed light on many fundamental theoretical issues in gravitational quantum physics and relativistic QI. Regarding relativity theory, these experiments in an outer-space setting can involve observations at spacelike and timelike separations and explicate intriguing phenomena from different choices of time-slicing. Regarding QI, they may be able to ensure the causal independence of the expectation values in the Bell test. These issues are addressed in this paper with analysis and explanations.