Demonstration of Cognitive Bias on a Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Processor

Abstract

The decision-making process of the individual is analogous to the collapse of a quantum system at the moment of measurement, whereby quantum system we mean the decision-maker, his mental processes and the environmental context that influences him in his choices. Classical probability depends on the lack of information, quantum probability is instead intrinsic to the system to be studied, meaning that the system, consisting of the decision-maker and the context, is in a superposition of states, each with its own amplitude of probability. Only the measurement process (the decision) selects in the decision maker a specific state among those in which he was overlapping. We demonstrated on a Noisy Intermediate –Scale Quantum Processor the model of the “order effect”, one of the most important cognitive bias.