Reasonable fermionic quantum information theories require relativity
arXiv:1502.04476 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/18/3/033014
Abstract
We show that any quantum information theory based on anticommuting operators must be supplemented by a superselection rule deeply rooted in relativity to establish a reasonable notion of entanglement. While quantum information may be encoded in the fermionic Fock space, the unrestricted theory has a peculiar feature: The marginals of bipartite pure states need not have identical entropies, which leads to an ambiguous definition of entanglement. We solve this problem, by proving that it is removed by relativity, i.e., by the parity superselection rule that arises from Lorentz invariance via the spin-statistics connection. Our results hence unveil a fundamental conceptual inseparability of quantum information and the causal structure of relativistic field theory.
v2: 9 pages, 1 figure, expanded reference list and modified discussion, to appear in the New Journal of Physics
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