A no-go theorem for the persistent reality of Wigner’s friend’s perception

Philippe Allard Guérin; Veronika Baumann; Flavio Del Santo; Časlav Brukner

doi:10.1038/s42005-021-00589-1

A no-go theorem for the persistent reality of Wigner’s friend’s perception

Philippe Allard Guérin (Corresponding author)
, Veronika Baumann
, Flavio Del Santo
, Časlav Brukner

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Original language	English
Article number	93
Number of pages	7
Journal	Communications Physics
Volume	4
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00589-1
Publication status	Published - 13 May 2021

Funding

We thank Mateus Araújo for comments on a previous version of the manuscript. V.B. acknowledges support from CoQuS, Vienna Doctoral School (VDS), and the QUOPROB project (no. I 2906-G24) of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). F.D.S. acknowledges the financial support through a DOC Fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAW). We acknowledge the support of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) through the SFB project “BeyondC,” a grant from the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) Fund and a grant from the John Templeton Foundation (Project No. 61466) as part of the Quantum Information Structure of Spacetime (QISS) Project (qiss.fr). The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation. Research at Perimeter Institute is supported, in part, by the Government of Canada through the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Colleges and Universities.

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

103025 Quantum mechanics
103036 Theoretical physics

Keywords

QUANTUM-THEORY
SUGGESTED INTERPRETATION
DYNAMICS
LIMITS
TERMS

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A no-go theorem for the persistent reality of Wigner’s friend’s perception

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