A contextually objective approach to the extended Wigner's friend thought experiment
Quantum Physics
2023-01-10 v1 History and Philosophy of Physics
Abstract
We present a discussion of the extended Wigner's friend thought experiment proposed by Frauchiger and Renner in [1]. We show by using various arguments, including textbook quantum mechanics and the ontological approach of Contexts, Systems, Modalities (CSM), that no contradiction arises if one admits that agents must agree on what is considered as a system and what is not. In such a contextually objective approach of quantum mechanics, the apparent contradiction is automatically removed. We also discuss why this mutual agreement between agents is already implicit in the standard formulations of quantum mechanics, and why removing it leads to inconsistencies.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2301.03016,
title = {A contextually objective approach to the extended Wigner's friend thought experiment},
author = {Maxime Federico and Philippe Grangier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.03016},
year = {2023}
}
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8 pages, 3 figures