Are Unitary Accounts of Quantum Measurements in Relativistic Wigner’s Friend Setups Compatible in Different Reference Frames?

Autor: Jawad Allam, Alex Matzkin
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Metrology, Vol 4, Iss 3, Pp 364-373 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2673-8244
DOI: 10.3390/metrology4030022
Popis: Wigner’s friend scenarios—in which external agents describe a closed laboratory containing a friend making a measurement—highlight the difficulties of quantum theory when accounting for measurements. The problem is to accommodate for unitary evolution from the point of view of the external agent with the measurements or other operations carried out by the friend. Here, we show in the context of a relativistic thought experiment that an operation that may be accounted for unitarily in a given reference frame cannot be described unitarily in a different reference frame. This result, based on the frame dependence of the state update in relativistic contexts, could point to some fundamental inadequacy when attempting to model actions taken by a complex agent as unitary operations.
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