Testing the reality of Wigner's friend's experience
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Utreras-Alarcón, A
Ghafari, F
Liang, YC
Tischler, N
Cavalcanti, EG
Pryde, GJ
Wiseman, HM
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Mitchell, A
RubinszteinDunlop, H
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Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only. Quantum mechanics is a robust theory which pro duces highly accurate predictions. Despite its successes, it is still plagued with controversies like the measure-ment problem. In short, the measurement problem is the conflict between the evolution of the wavefunction described by Schrödinger's equation and the apparent collapse of the wavefunction after a measurement is done. The Wigner's friend paradox illustrates the conflict be-tween the two rules. In the thought experiment, we consider an observer (Wigner's friend) who is able to per-form measurement on the quantum system and assign a quantum state. Wigner is a super-observer who is able to measure the laboratory his friend is in and also as-sign a quantum state. This process, however, leads to a quantum state that does not ascribe a well-defined value to the outcome of the friend's observation, in apparent contradiction with the friend's perspective.
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Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
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Foundations of quantum mechanics
Quantum optics and quantum optomechanics
Communications engineering
Electronics, sensors and digital hardware
Atomic, molecular and optical physics
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Bong, KW; Utreras-Alarcón, A; Ghafari, F; Liang, YC; Tischler, N; Cavalcanti, EG; Pryde, GJ; Wiseman, HM, Testing the reality of Wigner's friend's experience, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2019, 11200