Castellani, Leonardo (2020) No relation for Wigner's friend. [Preprint]

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Abstract

We argue that Wigner's friend thought experiment does not support observer dependence of quantum states. An analysis in terms of history vectors suggests that quantum collapse is to be understood as collapse of histories rather than collapse of states.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Castellani, Leonardo 0000-0002-7954-5622
Keywords:	quantum mechanics, quantum measurement, history approach
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Dr. Leonardo Castellani
Date Deposited:	16 Nov 2020 20:50
Last Modified:	16 Nov 2020 20:50
Item ID:	18409
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	16 November 2020
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/18409

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