Observers in superposition and the no-signaling principle

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15497v1
• Date: Wed, 24 May 2023 18:37:15 GMT
• Title: Observers in superposition and the no-signaling principle
• Authors: Veronika Baumann and Caslav Brukner
• Abstract summary: Wigner's friend experiment is a thought experiment in which a so-called superobserver observes another observer. In this setup Wigner treats the friend the system and potentially other degrees of freedom involved in the friend's measurement as one joint quantum system. We show that any awareness by the friend of such a change, which can be modeled by an additional memory register storing the information about the change, conflicts with the no-signaling condition.
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• Abstract: The Wigner's friend experiment is a thought experiment in which a so-called superobserver (Wigner) observes another observer (the friend) who has performed a quantum measurement on a physical system. In this setup Wigner treats the friend the system and potentially other degrees of freedom involved in the friend's measurement as one joint quantum system. In general, Wigner's measurement changes the internal record of the friend's measurement result such that after the measurement by the superobserver the result stored in the observer's memory register is no longer the same as the result the friend obtained at her measurement, i.e. before she was measured by Wigner. Here, we show that any awareness by the friend of such a change, which can be modeled by an additional memory register storing the information about the change, conflicts with the no-signaling condition in extended Wigner-friend scenarios.

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