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Wigner's Isolated Friend
Arne Hansen, Stefan Wolf
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 o…
Measuring Measuring
Arne Hansen, Stefan Wolf
Measurements play a crucial role in doing physics: Their results provide the basis on which we adopt or reject physical theories. In this note, we examine the effect of subjecting…
No master (key) No (measurement) problem
Arne Hansen, Stefan Wolf
Can normal science-in the Kuhnian sense-add something substantial to the discussion about the measurement problem? Does an extended Wigner's-friend Gedankenexperiment illustrate ne…
Contextuality: It's a Feature, not a Bug
Arne Hansen, Stefan Wolf
Results of measurements give legitimacy to a physical theory. What if acquiring these results in the first place necessitates what the same theory considers to be an interaction? I…
The Free Energy of a General Computation
Ämin Baumeler, Stefan Wolf
Starting from Landauer's slogan "information is physical," we revise and modify Landauer's principle stating that the erasure of information has a minimal price in the form of a ce…