Copenhagen interpretation can survive the upgraded Schrödinger's cat gedankenexperiment

DOI10.1007/S10701-020-00343-7MaRDI QIDQ2072040zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Guang Ping He

Publication date 31 January 2022

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.06858

zbMATH Keywords

Copenhagen interpretationquantum entanglementquantum interpretation theoryquantum measurementSchrödinger's cat

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

Abstract: Recently, Frauchiger and Renner proposed a Gedankenexperiment, which was claimed to be able to prove that quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself. Here we show that the conclusions of Frauchiger and Renner actually came from their incorrect description of some quantum states. With the correct description there will be no inconsistent results, no matter which quantum interpretation theory is used. Especially, the Copenhagen interpretation can satisfy all the three assumptions (C), (Q), and (S) of Frauchiger and Renner simultaneously, thus it has no problem consistently describing the use of itself.

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