Extended Wigner's Friend Scenarios with Agent-like Observers on Quantum Computers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12527v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:32:22 GMT
• Title: Extended Wigner's Friend Scenarios with Agent-like Observers on Quantum Computers
• Abstract summary: "Thoughtful" version of the Local Friendliness no-go theorem points towards future LF tests with human-level artificial agents implemented on quantum computers.<n>This work implements the "friend" with explicit agent-like functionality within a reversible quantum circuit.<n>Results provide a first step towards more structured agent-like friend models in LF experiments on quantum computers.
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• Abstract: The Wigner's friend thought experiment raises the question of whether quantum theory can be applied consistently to systems that include observers. Extended Wigner's Friend Scenarios develop this question by considering several observers who may assign different descriptions to the same experiment. In the Local Friendliness (LF) framework, these scenarios lead to experimentally testable inequalities derived from assumptions such as Absoluteness of Observed Events and Local Agency. Motivated by the "Thoughtful" version of the Local Friendliness no-go theorem, which points towards future LF tests with human-level artificial agents implemented on quantum computers, this work implements the "friend" with explicit agent-like functionality within a reversible quantum circuit. Drawing from the literature on Artificial Intelligence, we construct rudimentary agent-like systems and embed them into a one-friend Extended Wigner's Friend Scenario. These agents store measurement outcomes, condition later operations on stored information, and, in the most structured case, use Born-rule probabilities to bet on the outcomes of their own future observations based on past observations. The circuits are simulated ideally and with an IBM-device noise model and executed on ibm_marrakesh. Ideal simulations reproduce the maximal quantum violation of a Local Friendliness inequality up to finite-shot fluctuations, while hardware runs show positive LF violations for all implemented agents. These results provide a first step towards more structured agent-like friend models in LF experiments on quantum computers.

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