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Open Quantum Systems Decoherence

No relation for Wigner's friend

arXiv

Authors: Leonardo Castellani

Year

2020

Paper ID

19248

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Preprint

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We argue that Wigner's friend thought experiment does not support observer dependence of quantum states. An analysis in terms of history vectors suggests that quantum collapse is to be understood as collapse of histories rather than collapse of states.

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We argue that Wigner's friend thought experiment does not support observer dependence of quantum states.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:2011.08190 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08190 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.08190

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