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Wigner's Isolated Friend

Authors :
Hansen, Arne
Wolf, Stefan
Publication Year :
2019

Abstract

The measurement problem is seen as an ambiguity of quantum mechanics, or, beyond that, as a contradiction within the theory: Quantum mechanics offers two conflicting descriptions of the Wigner's-friend experiment. As we argue in this note there are, however, obstacles from within quantum mechanics and regarding our perspective onto doing physics towards fully describing a measurement. We conclude that the ability to exhaustively describe a measurement is an assumption necessary for the common framing of the measurement problem and ensuing suggested solutions.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1912.03248
Document Type :
Working Paper