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We consider a spin chain extending from Alice to Bob with next neighbors interactions, initially in its ground state. Assuming that Bob measures the last spin of the chain, the energy of the spin chain has to increase, at least on average,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Nicolas Gisin , Emmanuel Zambrini Cruzeiro

Wigner's form of the local realist inequality is used to derive its temporal version for an oscillating two-level system involving two-time joint probabilities. Such an inequality may be regarded as a novel form of the Leggett-Garg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Debashis Saha , Shiladitya Mal , Prasanta K. Panigrahi , Dipankar Home

Schr\"odinger's cat originates from the famous thought experiment querying the counterintuitive quantum superposition of macroscopic objects. As a natural extension, several "cats" (quasi-classical objects) can be prepared into coherent…

We propose a novel method for generating Schr\"odinger-cat states -- defined as equal superpositions of arbitrary coherent states -- using a concise sequence of rapid twist-and-turn pulses. We demonstrate that the required shearing strength…

Schr\"odinger's cat appears to have been harassed in a chamber during the past eighty years or so by interpreting the role of the observer as a person, who sets an experiment and then observes results, may be after some time. The realist…

General Physics · Physics 2010-08-26 Nalin de Silva

The Gedankenexperiment advanced by Frauchiger and Renner in their "Nature" paper was based on an implicit assumption that one can synchronize stochastic measurement intervals between two non-interacting systems. This hypothesis, the author…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 P. B. Lerner

We expand the time reversal symmetry arguments of quantum mechanics, originally proposed by Wigner in the context of unitary dynamics, to contain situations including generalized measurements for monitored quantum systems. We propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-04 Sreenath K. Manikandan , Andrew N. Jordan

The iconic Schr\"odinger's cat state describes a system that may be in a superposition of two macroscopically distinct states, for example two clearly separated oscillator coherent states. Quite apart from their role in understanding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-25 M. J. Everitt , T. P. Spiller , G. J. Milburn , R. D. Wilson , A. M. Zagoskin

Investigated idea was actuated by the old opinion that a measurement of a quantum observable should be regarded a as a single deterministic sampling. But, according to the last decades studies, such observables are veritable random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 Spiridon Dumitru

We discuss the possibility of generating and detecting, by a tomographic reconstruction of the Wigner function, a macroscopic superposition of two coherent states. The superposition state is created using a conditioned measurement on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. Genovese , C. Novero

We discuss the argument proposed in Ref.~\cite{Frauchiger-Renner}, and show that it does not particularly illustrate any inconsistency in quantum mechanics, but rather the well known difficulty often described as the \textquotedblleft…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-10 F. Laloë

The negativity of a given state's Wigner function has been proposed as a measure of quantumness of that state in a unipartite system. This otherwise physically intuitive and useful phase-space measure however does not yield the right…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-19 Tyler E Keating , Adam T. C. Steege , Arjendu K. Pattanayak

Schrodinger's famous cat has long been misunderstood. According to quantum theory and experiments with entangled systems, an entangled state such as the Schrodinger's cat state is neither a superposition of states of either subsystem nor a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Art Hobson

We discuss V.P. Belavkin's (2007) approach to the Schr\"odinger cat problem and show its close relation to ideas based on superselection and interaction with the environment developed by N.P. Landsman (1995). The purpose of the paper is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Richard D. Gill

We discuss the no-go theorem of Frauchiger and Renner based on an "extended Wigner's friend" thought experiment which is supposed to show that any single-world interpretation of quantum mechanics leads to inconsistent predictions if it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Dustin Lazarovici , Mario Hubert

This paper aims to falsify the hypothesis that the observer's consciousness is necessary for quantum measurement. To achieve our target, we propose a variation of the Schroedinger's cat thought experiment called "DAP", short for "Dead-Alive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Carlo Roselli , Bruno Raffaele Stella

Schr\"odinger's famous Gedankenexperiment has inspired multiple generations of physicists to think about apparent paradoxes that arise when the logic of quantum physics is applied to macroscopic objects. The development of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-22 Demid V. Sychev , Valeriy A. Novikov , Khurram K. Pirov , Christoph Simon , A. I. Lvovsky

It is well-known that the coordinate as a continuous variable, consisting of a set of all points between 0 and $L$ contradicts the observability of measurement. In other words there might exist a fundamental length in nature, such as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 Manjit Bhatia , P. Narayana Swamy

In April 2016, Daniela Frauchiger and Renato Renner published an article online in which they introduce a Gedankenexperiment that led them to conclude that single-world interpretation of quantum theory cannot be self-consistent. In a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Sebastian Fortin , Olimpia Lombardi

A recent paper by two of us and co-workers, based on an extended Wigner's friend scenario, demonstrated that certain empirical correlations predicted by quantum theory (QT) violate inequalities derived from a set of metaphysical assumptions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Howard M. Wiseman , Eric G. Cavalcanti , Eleanor G. Rieffel