Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself

  • Daniela Frauchiger,
  • Renato Renner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05739-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Quantum mechanics is expected to provide a consistent description of reality, even when recursively describing systems contained in each other. Here, the authors develop a variant of Wigner’s friend Gedankenexperiment where each of the current interpretations of QM fails in giving a consistent description.