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most citedRelational Quantum Mechanics is about Facts, not States: A reply to Pienaar and Brukner

81 citations · 244 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

quant-ph2026

Adlam's Frame: comment on "Wigner's Frame"

Andrea Di Biagio, Anne-Catherine de la Hamette

Recent no-go theorems based on extended Wigner's Friend scenarios (EWFS) reveal a deep tension between the universal validity of quantum theory and local friendliness (LF), the con…

quant-ph2026

Aumann's theorem beyond ontology: quantum, postquantum, and indefinite causal order

Carlo Cepollaro, Andrea Di Biagio

Agreement theorems are no-go results about rational disagreement: if two agents start from a common prior and their posterior beliefs are common knowledge, they cannot assign diffe…

quant-ph2025

On the emergence of preferred structures in quantum theory

Antoine Soulas, Guilherme Franzmann, Andrea Di Biagio

We assess the possibilities offered by Hilbert space fundamentalism, an attitude towards quantum physics according to which all physical structures (e.g. subsystems, locality, spac…

gr-qc2025

Gravity-induced entanglement is not a theory-independent witness of nonclassicality of the gravitational field

Andrea Di Biagio

Gravity-induced entanglement (GIE) experiments have been proposed as a theory-independent test of the quantum nature of gravity, on the strength of several no-go theorems concludin…

quant-ph2025

Relative Information, Relative Facts

Andrea Di Biagio, Carlo Rovelli

We offer a fresh perspective on the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics as a way of thinking about the world described by quantum theory based on quantifiable notions of…

gr-qc2025

Observables are glocal

Emil Broukal, Andrea Di Biagio, Eugenio Bianchi +1

We show that the problem of observables can be fully resolved for background independent theories defined on graphs, through the explicit construction of complete observables. The…

quant-ph2024★ 3 cited

A truly relativistic gravity mediated entanglement protocol using superpositions of rotational energies

Gerard Higgins, Andrea Di Biagio, Marios Christodoulou

Experimental proposals for testing quantum gravity-induced entanglement of masses (QGEM) typically involve two interacting masses which are each in a spatial superposition state. H…

physics.hist-ph2024

On the Time Orientation of Probabilistic Theories

Andrea Di Biagio, Carlo Rovelli

An influential theorem by Satosi Watanabe convinced many that there can be no physical probabilistic theory with both non-trivial forward and backward transition probabilities. We…

quant-ph2023★ 12 cited

Gravity Mediated Entanglement between Oscillators as Quantum Superposition of Geometries

Ofek Bengyat, Andrea Di Biagio, Markus Aspelmeyer +1

Protocols for observing gravity induced entanglement typically comprise the interaction of two particles prepared either in a superposition of two discrete paths, or in a continuou…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

On the consistency of relative facts

Eric G. Cavalcanti, Andrea Di Biagio, Carlo Rovelli

Lawrence et al. have presented an argument purporting to show that "relative facts do not exist" and, consequently, "Relational Quantum Mechanics is incompatible with quantum mecha…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Circuit locality from relativistic locality in scalar field mediated entanglement

Andrea Di Biagio, Richard Howl, Časlav Brukner +2

Locality is a central notion in modern physics, but different disciplines understand it in different ways. Quantum field theory focuses on relativistic locality, based on spacetime…

quant-ph2022★ 37 cited

Gravity entanglement, quantum reference systems, degrees of freedom

Marios Christodoulou, Andrea Di Biagio, Richard Howl +1

We discuss the physical interpretation of the gravity mediated entanglement effect. We show how to read it in terms of quantum reference systems. We pinpoint the single gravitation…

quant-ph2022★ 6 cited

Photonic Implementation of Quantum Gravity Simulator

Emanuele Polino, Beatrice Polacchi, Davide Poderini +6

Detecting gravity mediated entanglement can provide evidence that the gravitational field obeys quantum mechanics. We report the result of a simulation of the phenomenon using a ph…

quant-ph2021★ 81 cited

Relational Quantum Mechanics is about Facts, not States: A reply to Pienaar and Brukner

Andrea Di Biagio, Carlo Rovelli

In recent works, Časlav Brukner and Jacques Pienaar have raised interesting objections to the relational interpretation of quantum mechanics. We answer these objections in detail a…

quant-ph2020★ 40 cited

The arrow of time in operational formulations of quantum theory

Andrea Di Biagio, Pietro Donà, Carlo Rovelli

The operational formulations of quantum theory are drastically time oriented. However, to the best of our knowledge, microscopic physics is time-symmetric. We address this tension…

gr-qc2020★ 6 cited

An experiment to test the discreteness of time

Marios Christodoulou, Andrea Di Biagio, Pierre Martin-Dussaud

Time at the Planck scale () is an unexplored physical regime. It is widely believed that probing Planck time will remain for long an impossible task. Yet…

quant-ph2020★ 48 cited

Stable Facts, Relative Facts

Andrea Di Biagio, Carlo Rovelli

Facts happen at every interaction, but they are not absolute: they are relative to the systems involved in the interaction. Stable facts are those whose relativity can effectively…