Experimental Demonstration on Quantum Sensitivity to Available Information in Decision Making

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 681
• Main Authors: Lee, Joong-Sung, Bang, Jeongho, Lee, Jinhyoung, Lee, Kwang-Geol
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Nature Publishing Group 24.01.2019; Nature Publishing Group UK
• Subjects: Decision making
• ISSN: 2045-2322; 2045-2322
• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-36945-5

We present an experimental illustration on the quantum sensitivity of decision making machinery. In the decision making process, we consider the role of available information, say hint, whether it influences the optimal choices. To the end, we consider a machinery method of decision making in a probabilistic way. Our main result shows that in decision making process our quantum machine is more highly sensitive than its classical counterpart to the hints we categorize into "good" and "poor". This quantum feature originates from the quantum superposition involved in the decision making process. We also show that the quantum sensitivity persists before the quantum superposition is completely destroyed.