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The quantum agreement theorem.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · · Journal Article
Díaz, Brandenburger + 1 more
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In a finite-dimensional tripartite quantum setting, commuting local projective measurements and common certainty force two observers’ probability assessments to coincide, recovering a quantum Agreement Theorem.
- Why it matters: The work addresses when intersubjective consistency holds—i.e., when observers using a shared theory can agree on probabilities—extending Aumann’s classical benchmark to quantum mechanics.
- What they did: The authors analyze two observers performing local projective measurements, formalizing mutual awareness via an infinite hierarchy of common certainty operators, then prove agreement under commutation conditions and build qutrit-qubit-qubit countermodels.
- The result: They show that when one observer’s measurement does not commute with the property, common certainty can yield disagreement via coherence between measurement branches, but dephasing from classical registers restores agreement.
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