Abstract
Abstract
Wigner’s friend thought experiment is intended to reveal the inherent tension between unitary evolution and measurement collapse. Inspired by the Wigner’s friend experiment, Brukner derives a no-go theorem for observer-independent facts, focusing on two entangled observers in their respective laboratories. We construct an extended Wigner’s friend scenario, including three laboratories, namely, Alice’s laboratory, Bob’s laboratory and Charlie’s laboratory, where Alice, Bob and Charlie are standing outside the laboratories while their friends are placed inside their own laboratories. To realize this scenario, we create a universal quantum circuit, especially the circuit realization of the state evolution and measurement inside each laboratory, simple but novel. We carry out experiments on the IBM quantum computers to test the primary circuits, i.e. state preparation, state evolution and measurement inside each laboratory. Furthermore, we perform the simulation of the quantum circuit via Q# quantum programming on a classical computer.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Condensed Matter Physics,Mathematical Physics,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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