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Quantum voting and violation of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

Bao, Ning and Yunger Halpern, Nicole (2017) Quantum voting and violation of Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. Physical Review A, 95 (6). Art. No. 062306. ISSN 2469-9926. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.95.062306. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160613-093059687

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Abstract

We propose a quantum voting system in the spirit of quantum games such as the quantum prisoner's dilemma. Our scheme enables a constitution to violate a quantum analog of Arrow's impossibility theorem. Arrow's theorem is a claim proved deductively in economics: Every (classical) constitution endowed with three innocuous-seeming properties is a dictatorship. We construct quantum analogs of constitutions, of the properties, and of Arrow's theorem. A quantum version of majority rule, we show, violates this quantum Arrow conjecture. Our voting system allows for tactical-voting strategies reliant on entanglement, interference, and superpositions. This contribution to quantum game theory helps elucidate how quantum phenomena can be harnessed for strategic advantage.


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Bao, Ning0000-0002-3296-1039
Yunger Halpern, Nicole0000-0001-8670-6212
Additional Information:© 2017 American Physical Society. Received 15 January 2017; published 5 June 2017. The authors thank S. Aaronson, S. Harrison, S. Jordan, A. Kubica, J. Preskill, and T. Vidick for conversations, and are thankful for support from a Virginia Gilloon Fellowship, an IQIM Fellowship, a Burke Postdoctoral Fellowship, and NSF Grant No. PHY-0803371. Further partial support came from the Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics at Caltech. The Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) is an NSF Physics Frontiers Center supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. N.B. thanks MIT, as well as QuICS at the University of Maryland, for their hospitality during the completion of this work. N.Y.H. thanks Fudan University and National Taiwan University similarly.
Group:Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, Institute for Quantum Information and Matter
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Virginia Gilloon FellowshipUNSPECIFIED
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM)UNSPECIFIED
Walter Burke Institute for Theoretical Physics, CaltechUNSPECIFIED
NSFPHY-0803371
Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationUNSPECIFIED
Issue or Number:6
Classification Code:PACS: 03.67.Ac
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.95.062306
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