Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (27)

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The appearance of particle tracks in detectors. (arXiv:2007.00785v1 [math-ph]) 上午9:14 | Miguel Ballesteros, Tristan Benoist, Martin Fraas, Jürg Fröhlich | quant-ph updates on arXiv.org The phenomenon that a quantum particle propagating in a detector, such as a Wilson cloud chamber, leaves a track close to a classical trajectory is analyzed. We introduce an idealized quantum-mechanical model of a charged particle… Read more →

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Born’s rule from almost nothing. (arXiv:2006.14175v1 [quant-ph]) 上午10:14 | Sabine Hossenfelder | quant-ph updates on arXiv.org We here put forward a simple argument for Born’s rule based on the requirement that the probability distribution should not be a function of the number of degrees of freedom. How small an environment can be to still generate decoherence?. (arXiv:2006.14468v1 [quant-ph]) 上午10:14 |… Read more →

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The CHSH Test Can be Used for All Quantum-Describable Systems 上午8:00 | Latest Results for Foundations of Physics Abstract This paper shows that the Clauser–Horne–Shimony–Holt test of locality of correlations which was originally designed to be used with binary observables can actually be used for any couples of quantum-like bounded continuous observables, and then for any experimental situation describable within… Read more →

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Observing the fate of the false vacuum with a quantum laboratory. (arXiv:2006.06003v1 [hep-th]) 上午9:31 | Steven Abel, Michael Spannowsky | quant-ph updates on arXiv.org We design and implement a quantum laboratory to experimentally observe and study dynamical processes of quantum field theories. Our approach encodes the field theory as an Ising model, which is then solved by a quantum annealer…. Read more →

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Properties of Spin and Orbital Angular Momenta of Light. (arXiv:2006.02673v1 [quant-ph]) 上午9:43 | Arvind, S. Chaturvedi, N. Mukunda | quant-ph updates on arXiv.org This paper analyzes the algebraic and physical properties of the spin and orbital angular momenta of light in the quantum mechanical framework. The consequences of the fact that these are not angular momenta in the quantum mechanical… Read more →

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Which Worldlines Represent Possible Particle Histories? 上午8:00 | Latest Results for Foundations of Physics Abstract Based on three common interpretive commitments in general relativity, I raise a conceptual problem for the usual identification, in that theory, of timelike curves as those that represent the possible histories of (test) particles in spacetime. This problem affords at least three different solutions, depending… Read more →

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Deterministic Quantum Mechanics: the Mathematical Equations Gerard t Hooft Download PDF Without wasting time and effort on philosophical justifications and implications, we write down the conditions for the Hamiltonian of a quantum system for rendering it mathematically equivalent to a deterministic system. These are the equations to be considered. Special attention is given to the notion of `locality’. Various examples… Read more →

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Which Worldlines Represent Possible Particle Histories? 上午8:00 | Latest Results for Foundations of Physics Abstract Based on three common interpretive commitments in general relativity, I raise a conceptual problem for the usual identification, in that theory, of timelike curves as those that represent the possible histories of (test) particles in spacetime. This problem affords at least three different solutions, depending… Read more →