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arxiv 2011.08190 v1 pith:6FE4BDJG submitted 2020-11-16 quant-ph hep-thphysics.hist-ph

No relation for Wigner's friend

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keywords collapsefriendquantumstateswigneranalysisarguedependence
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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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