11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

A possibilistic no-go theorem on the Wigner’s friend paradox

12 Dec 2022, 12:15
15m
Room R3 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R3

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) AIP: Theoretical and Mathematical AIP: Theoretical and Mathematical

Speaker

Marwan Haddara (Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia)

Description

We demonstrate a logical no-go theorem on a version of the Wigner's friend thought experiment which strengthens previous device-independent no-go results and opens new questions on the interface of quantum foundations and modal logic.

Authors

Eric G. Cavalcanti (Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia) Marwan Haddara (Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland 4222, Australia)

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