Wigner's friend Definition and 22 Threads

please keep it simple, im a physics layman... when the friend inside the box keep looking at the electron, the electron is in a definite position and cannot tunnel outside the box. but in wigner's perspective, his wavefunction for the electron evolves according to schrodinger and has a non zero...

Brukner, Renner, and Cavalcanti recently won the Paul Ehrenfest award for their work deriving new no-go theorems involving an Extended Wigner's Friend Scenario, but I'm having trouble understanding certain aspects of how this thought experiment works. I'm trying to understand it conceptually...

Happy new year to all the forumers. The Wigner's friend paradox appeared in the early years of quantum mechanics: Wigner knows that his friend looked inside the box to see if the cat is dead or alive. He has two cells in his mind to put what his friend saw. As he ignores the result, he may...

I have some doubts regarding my personal interpretation that i was contemplating about in the context of Wigner's friend experiment (also tested in the laboratory recently). Could it be that a system is always in a superposition, and when we perform a measurement, we obtain a definite value due...

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-future.html The paper in question can be found at https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-021-00589-1 This thread is for discussion of the said paper.

There we read: "note that if Wigner did not know this phase due to the lack of control of it, he would describe the “spin + friend’s laboratory” in an incoherent mixture of the two possibilities". Why is this the case? Given that the author has propoede neither a citation nor a proof for this...

1. Wigner's friend is inside a lab, and has a pair of entangled photons. 2. He measures one in the vertical axis. 3. He sends the other photon to Wigner. 4. Wigner can: a) measure it in the vertical axis (if so, he will get the same result as Wigner's friend). 5. Or Wigner can: b) send the...

The answer is no and even when decoherence occurs for Wigner's Friend in the lab, quantum coherence remains. Let's start with the paper that illustrates this. Assisted Macroscopic Quantumness CONT. https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.10498 Wow, I recently read this paper and the results are simply...

If you look at the recent Wigner's Friend experiment, it seems to support Carlo Rovelli's Relational Interpretation which says there's no real measurement. Wiger's Friend carries out a polarization measurement. Before he does, the quantum system is in a superposition of horizontal/vertical...

I'm working on a novel involving QM ideas. What I'm most excited about is the prospect of taking a view on Markus Muller's propositions involving reality and algorithmic information theory. I'm trying to make it work with the Wigner's Friend thought experiment. Are there any ideas on how...

I'm working on a novel involving QM ideas. What I'm most excited about is the prospect of taking a view on Markus Muller's propositions involving reality and algorithmic information theory. I'm trying to make it work with the Wigner's Friend thought experiment. Are there any ideas on how...

You often hear this debate about the role of the observer in Quantum Mechanics. How you view this role is usually dictates the interpretation you prefer. If it's Copenhagen, then the observer is more robust and plays a crucial role in wave function collapse. If it's Many Worlds, then the...

Summary: Could different outcomes have different physics in Wigner's friend? Physicist Eugene Wigner said that consciousness was fundamental for physics and that laws of physics existed because of it. He said that "consciousness can change the usual laws of physics" He also proposed the...

Summary: Wigner's friend seems to lead to certainty in two complimentary contexts This is probably pretty dumb, but I was just thinking about Wigner's friend and wondering about the two contexts involved. The basic set up I'm wondering about is as follows: The friend does a spin measurement...

I read a few articles about Qbism, but feel like I don't understand the difference from Copenhagen. One author claims the difference is that each observer has his own view of the world (and own probabilities in qbism). I thought that was also the case in Copenhagen. E.g. the old Wigner's...

Hi everyone! Sorry for the bad english! Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05080 I guess I understood the experiment until the moment Alice and Bob chooses to measure A0(B0) or A1(B1). I guess it's kind of straightforward that without a bell state measurement with photon alfa(beta) and photon...

Hi, just browsed through some news stories and saw a story about a group of researchers who seemed to prove we can experience very different realities. I was just wondering if anyone could provide a simple explanation of their experiment and what they did? Do we really live in different realities?

Hey there! I was recently pointed to this thought experiment, claiming an apparent 'contradiction' involving the various predictions of the observers. Now, this has been discussed on PF quite recently, but I found the discussion rather hard to follow. I've read the paper, the PF discussion...

See this recent paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05080

Greg Bernhardt submitted a new blog post Wigner's Friend Continue reading the Original Blog Post.

Wigner's Friend was supposed to be the arguments that wave function collapse can't be really occurring, but there seemed to be counterarguments that refuted the illustration of the Wigner's Friend. What is it? I can't seem to find them at google. Thank you.

Consciousness and the Wigner's friend problem by Bernard d’Espagnat. Information and fundamental elements of the structure of quantum theory by Caslav Brukner and Anton Zeilinger So Quantum Mechanics is nothing but footnotes to Plato. Is Philosophy dead?