Classical information and collapse in Wigner's friend setups

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08260v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 09:54:18 GMT
• Title: Classical information and collapse in Wigner's friend setups
• Authors: Veronika Baumann
• Abstract summary: Wigner's friend experiment considers the friend as a quantum system and her interaction with other quantum systems as unitary dynamics. Extended Wigner's friend experiments combine the original thought experiment with non-locality setups. A Wigner's friend paradox and the violation of local friendliness inequalities require that no classical record exists.
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• Abstract: The famous Wigner's friend experiment considers an observer -- the friend -- and a superobserver -- Wigner -- who treats the friend as a quantum system and her interaction with other quantum systems as unitary dynamics. This is at odds with the friend describing this interaction via collapse dynamics, if she interacts with the quantum system in a way that she would consider a measurement. These different descriptions constitute the Wigner's friend paradox. Extended Wigner's friend experiments combine the original thought experiment with non-locality setups. This allows for deriving local friendliness inequalities, similar to Bell's theorem, which can be violated for certain extended Wigner's friend scenarios. A Wigner's friend paradox and the violation of local friendliness inequalities require that no classical record exists, which reveals the result the friend observed during her measurement. Otherwise Wigner agrees with his friend's description and no local friendliness inequality can be violated. In this article, I introduce classical communication between Wigner and his friend and discuss its effects on the simple as well as extended Wigner's friend experiments. By controlling the properties of a (quasi) classical communication channel between Wigner and the friend one can regulate how much outcome information about the friend's measurement is revealed. This gives a smooth transition between the paradoxical description and the possibility of violating local friendliness inequalities, on the one hand, and the effectively collapsed case, on the other hand.

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