S2: Wigner's Friend And Friends
Channel: StatisticallyInsignificant
Date: 2023-04-14

A special episode about quantum weirdness and what went into the latest physics Nobel.

This video is pitched at people with some background in maths and/or physics. If you have some idea what "eigenspace of a matrix" means you'll be okay.

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C. Brukner. (2018) A no-go theorem for observer-independent facts. Entropy, 20(5):350.
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A.A. Grib. (1984) Bell's inequalities and experimental verifcation of quantum correlations at macroscopic distances. Soviet Physics Uspekhi, 27(4):284 - 293.
M. Proietti, A. Pickston, F. Grafftti, P. Barrow, D. Kundys, C. Branciard, M. Ringbauer, and A. Fedrizzi. (2019) Experimental rejection of observer independence in the quantum world. arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.05080.
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J. von Neumann. (1955) Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Princeton University Press. Translated from the German by R. T. Beyer.

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