Hidden-State Updates and observable-record composition in retrocausal models

arXiv:2610.00357 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Calibration — 5× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Entanglement — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Causal Discovery — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Exchangeability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ontology — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• The lesson of causal discovery algorithms for quantum correlations: Causal explanations of Bell-inequality violations require fine-tuning
• Is a time symmetric interpretation of quantum theory possible without retrocausality?
• Are Retrocausal Accounts of Entanglement Unnaturally Fine-Tuned?
• Bell's Theorem and Locally-Mediated Reformulations of Quantum Mechanics
• Theoretical framework for quantum networks
• Non-Markovian quantum processes: complete framework and efficient characterisation
• Quantum Markov Order

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