Sudbery, Anthony (2017) Single-world theory of the extended Wigner's friend experiment. Foundations of Physics. pp. 658-669. ISSN 0015-9018
Abstract
Frauchiger and Renner have recently claimed to prove that ``Single-world interpretations of quantum theory cannot be self-consistent". This is contradicted by a construction due to Bell, inspired by Bohmian mechanics, which shows that any quantum system can be modelled in such a way that there is only one ``world" at any time, but the predictions of quantum theory are reproduced. This Bell-Bohmian theory is applied to the experiment proposed by Frauchiger and Renner, and their argument is critically examined. It is concluded that it is their version of ``standard quantum theory", incorporating state vector collapse upon measurement, that is not self-consistent.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2017. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Mathematics (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 24 Apr 2017 11:20 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 13:40 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-017-0082-7 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s10701-017-0082-7 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:115521 |
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