A strong no-go theorem on the Wigner's friend paradox

KW Bong, A Utreras-Alarcón, F Ghafari, YC Liang… - Nature Physics, 2020 - nature.com
Does quantum theory apply at all scales, including that of observers? New light on this
fundamental question has recently been shed through a resurgence of interest in the long …

Quantum causal models

J Barrett, R Lorenz, O Oreshkov - arxiv preprint arxiv:1906.10726, 2019 - arxiv.org
It is known that the classical framework of causal models is not general enough to allow for
causal reasoning about quantum systems. While the framework has been generalized in a …

[PDF][PDF] Kolmogorov extension theorem for (quantum) causal modelling and general probabilistic theories

S Milz, F Sakuldee, FA Pollock, K Modi - Quantum, 2020 - quantum-journal.org
In classical physics, the Kolmogorov extension theorem lays the foundation for the theory of
stochastic processes. It has been known for a long time that, in its original form, this theorem …

Violations of locality and free choice are equivalent resources in Bell experiments

P Blasiak, EM Pothos, JM Yearsley… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Bell inequalities rest on three fundamental assumptions: realism, locality, and free choice,
which lead to nontrivial constraints on correlations in very simple experiments. If we retain …

[HTML][HTML] Retrocausality in quantum mechanics

S Friederich, PW Evans - 2019 - plato.stanford.edu
Quantum theory provides a framework for modern theoretical physics that enjoys enormous
predictive and explanatory success. Yet, in view of the so-called “measurement problem” …

Acausal quantum theory for non-Archimedean scalar fields

ML Mendoza-Martínez, JA Vallejo… - Reviews in …, 2019 - World Scientific
We construct a family of quantum scalar fields over ap-adic spacetime which satisfy p-adic
analogues of the Gårding–Wightman axioms. Most of the axioms can be formulated in the …

Contextuality, fine-tuning and teleological explanation

E Adlam - Foundations of Physics, 2021 - Springer
I assess various proposals for the source of the intuition that there is something problematic
about contextuality, ultimately concluding that contextuality is best thought of in terms of fine …

Why initial system-environment correlations do not imply the failure of complete positivity: A causal perspective

D Schmid, K Ried, RW Spekkens - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
The common wisdom in the field of quantum information theory is that when a system is
initially correlated with its environment, the map describing its evolution may fail to be …

Relating Wigner's Friend scenarios to Nonclassical Causal Compatibility, Monogamy Relations, and Fine Tuning

Y Yīng, MM Ansanelli, A Di Biagio, E Wolfe… - Quantum, 2024 - quantum-journal.org
Nonclassical causal modeling was developed in order to explain violations of Bell
inequalities while adhering to relativistic causal structure and $ faithfulness $---that is …

Implications of local friendliness violation for quantum causality

EG Cavalcanti, HM Wiseman - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
We provide a new formulation of the Local Friendliness no-go theorem of Bong et al.[Nat.
Phys. 16, 1199 (2020)] from fundamental causal principles, providing another perspective …