Implications of Local Friendliness Violation for Quantum Causality

Entropy (Basel). 2021 Jul 21;23(8):925. doi: 10.3390/e23080925.

Abstract

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 on how it puts strictly stronger bounds on quantum reality than Bell's theorem. In particular, quantum causal models have been proposed as a way to maintain a peaceful coexistence between quantum mechanics and relativistic causality while respecting Leibniz's methodological principle. This works for Bell's theorem but does not work for the Local Friendliness no-go theorem, which considers an extended Wigner's Friend scenario. More radical conceptual renewal is required; we suggest that cleaving to Leibniz's principle requires extending relativity to events themselves.

Keywords: Wigner’s friend paradox; causal models; experimental metaphysics; quantum causal models; quantum causality; quantum foundations.