No-go theorem based on incomplete information of Wigner about his friend
arXiv:2111.15010 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.107.022424
Abstract
The notion of measurements is central for many debates in quantum mechanics. One critical point is whether a measurement can be regarded as an absolute event, giving the same result for any observer in an irreversible manner. Using ideas from the gedankenexperiment of Wigner's friend it has been argued that, when combined with the assumptions of locality and no-superdeterminism, regarding a measurement as an absolute event is incompatible with the universal validity of quantum mechanics. We consider a weaker assumption: is the measurement event realised relatively to the observer when he only partially observed the outcome. We proposed a protocol to show that this assumption putting in conjunction with the natural assumptions of no-superdeterminism and locality is also not compatible with the universal validity of quantum mechanics.
arXiv comment7 pages, 2 figures
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