  We prove new results on common cause closedness of quantum probability
spaces, where by a quantum probability space is meant the projection lattice of
a non-commutative von Neumann algebra together with a countably additive
probability measure on the lattice. Common cause closedness is the feature that
for every correlation between a pair of commuting projections there exists in
the lattice a third projection commuting with both of the correlated
projections and which is a Reichenbachian common cause of the correlation. The
main result we prove is that a quantum probability space is common cause closed
if and only if it has at most one measure theoretic atom. This result improves
earlier ones published in Z. GyenisZ and M. Redei Erkenntnis 79 (2014) 435-451.
The result is discussed from the perspective of status of the Common Cause
Principle. Open problems on common cause closedness of general probability
spaces $(\mathcal{L},\phi)$ are formulated, where $\mathcal{L}$ is an
orthomodular bounded lattice and $\phi$ is a probability measure on
$\mathcal{L}$.
