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% refs.bib - Bibliography for Branch-Transfer IBM Hardware Experiment
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% PRIMARY REFERENCE: Violaris inter-branch communication protocol
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@misc{violaris2026interbranch,
title        = {Quantum observers can communicate across multiverse branches},
    author       = {Violaris, Maria},
    year         = {2026},
    eprint       = {2601.08102},
    archivePrefix= {arXiv},
    primaryClass = {quant-ph},
    doi          = {10.48550/arXiv.2601.08102},
    url          = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08102},
    note = {arXiv:2601.08102}
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% WIGNER'S FRIEND: Foundational and recent references
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@article{wigner1961remarks,
    title        = {Remarks on the mind-body question},
    author       = {Wigner, Eugene P.},
    journal      = {The Scientist Speculates},
    editor       = {Good, I. J.},
    pages        = {284--302},
    year         = {1961},
    publisher    = {Heinemann}
}
@article{frauchiger2018quantum,
    title        = {Quantum theory cannot consistently describe the use of itself},
    author       = {Frauchiger, Daniela and Renner, Renato},
    journal      = {Nature Communications},
    volume       = {9},
    number       = {1},
    pages        = {3711},
    year         = {2018},
    publisher    = {Nature Publishing Group},
    doi          = {10.1038/s41467-018-05739-8}
}
@article{brukner2018no,
    title        = {A no-go theorem for observer-independent facts},
    author       = {Brukner, {\v{C}}aslav},
    journal      = {Entropy},
    volume       = {20},
    number       = {5},
    pages        = {350},
    year         = {2018},
    publisher    = {MDPI},
    doi          = {10.3390/e20050350}
}
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% EXPERIMENTAL WIGNER'S FRIEND / OBSERVER-AS-CIRCUIT IMPLEMENTATIONS
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@article{proietti2019experimental,
    title        = {Experimental Test of Local Observer Independence},
    author       = {Proietti, Massimiliano and Pickston, Alexander and Graffitti, Francesco and Barrow, Peter and Kundys, Dmytro and Branciard, Cyril and Ringbauer, Martin and Fedrizzi, Alessandro},
    journal      = {Science Advances},
    volume       = {5},
    number       = {9},
    pages        = {eaaw9832},
    year         = {2019},
    publisher    = {American Association for the Advancement of Science},
    doi          = {10.1126/sciadv.aaw9832}
}
@article{bong2020strong,
    title        = {A Strong No-Go Theorem on the Wigner's Friend Paradox},
    author       = {Bong, Kok-Wei and Utreras-Alarc{\'o}n, An{\'i}bal and Ghafari, Farzad and Liang, Yeong-Cherng and Tischler, Nora and Cavalcanti, Eric G. and Pryde, Geoff J. and Wiseman, Howard M.},
    journal      = {Nature Physics},
    volume       = {16},
    number       = {12},
    pages        = {1199--1205},
    year         = {2020},
    publisher    = {Nature Publishing Group},
    doi          = {10.1038/s41567-020-0990-x}
}
@misc{mukherjee2025timelike,
title        = {Limits of Absoluteness of Observed Events in Timelike Scenarios: A No-Go Theorem},
    author       = {Mukherjee, Sumit and Hance, Jonte R.},
    year         = {2025},
    eprint       = {2510.26562},
    archivePrefix= {arXiv},
    primaryClass = {quant-ph},
    doi          = {10.48550/arXiv.2510.26562},
    url          = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26562},
    note = {arXiv:2510.26562}
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% IBM QUANTUM PLATFORM AND QISKIT SOFTWARE STACK
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@misc{ibmquantum,
    title        = {{IBM} {Q}uantum Platform},
    author       = {{IBM Quantum}},
    year         = {January 2026},
    url          = {https://quantum.ibm.com/},
    note         = {Official platform (accessed 2026-01-19)}
}

@software{qiskit,
title        = {{{Qiskit}}: An Open-Source SDK for Quantum Computing},
    author       = {{Qiskit contributors}},
    year         = {January 2026},
    doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.2573505},
    url          = {https://qiskit.org/},
    note         = {Version 2.3.0 (accessed 2026-01-19).}
}@software{qiskitaer,
title        = {{{{Qiskit} Aer}}: High-Performance Quantum Circuit Simulation},
    author       = {{Qiskit contributors}},
    year         = {January 2026},
    url          = {https://qiskit.org/ecosystem/aer/},
    note         = {Simulator backend and noise modeling tools; Version 0.17.2 (accessed 2026-01-19).}
}@software{qiskitibmruntime,
    title        = {{Qiskit} {IBM} Runtime},
    author       = {{IBM Quantum}},
    year         = {January 2026},
    url          = {https://github.com/Qiskit/qiskit-ibm-runtime},
    note         = {Version 0.45.0}
}