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Main Authors: de Melo, Fernando, Carvalho, Gabriel Dias, Correia, Pedro S., Obando, Paola Concha, de Oliveira, Thiago R., Vallejos, Raúl O.
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07327
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  • Quantum mechanics started out as a theory to describe the smallest scales of energy in Nature. After a hundred years of development it is now routinely employed to describe, among others, quantum computers with thousands of qubits. This tremendous progress turns the debate of foundational questions into a technological imperative. In what follows we introduce a model of a quantum measurement process that consistently includes the impact of having access only to finite resources when describing a macroscopic system, like a measurement apparatus. Leveraging modern tools from equilibration of closed systems and typicality, we show how the measurement collapse can be seen as an effective description of a closed dynamics, of which we do not know all its details. Our model is then exploited to address the ``Wigner Friend Scenario'', and we observe that an agreement is reached when both Wigner and his friend acknowledge their finite resources perspective and describe the measurement process accordingly.