Copenhagen Interpretation Can Survive the Upgraded Schrödinger’s cat Gedankenexperiment

Foundations of Physics 50 (7):715-726 (2020)
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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,, and of Frauchiger and Renner simultaneously, thus it has no problem consistently describing the use of itself.

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