Quantum information and the arrow of time.
2020
It is often stated that quantum theory yields probabilities for outcomes of $future$ measurements. This language reinforces a common misconception: that quantum dynamics is time oriented. In fact, the past of quanta is as undetermined as their future given the present. Here we address the apparent tension between the time-reversal invariance of elementary quantum physics and the intrinsic time orientation of the formulations of quantum theory used in the quantum information and quantum foundations communities. We show that the latter does not stem from a quantum arrow of time, but from the agent's own thermodynamic arrow of time.
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