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Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (13)

Classical Thought in Newton’s General Scholium. (arXiv:2303.12945v1 [physics.hist-ph])   from  physics.hist-ph updates on arXiv.org  by  Karin Verelst Fri Mar 24 2023 09:25:11 (1 day) # 1. Isaac Newton, in popular imagination the Ur-scientist, was an outstanding humanist scholar. His researches on, among others, ancient philosophy, are thorough and appear to be connected to and fit within his larger philosophical and… Read more →

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Experimental evidence for the Unruh effect. (arXiv:1903.00043v3 [gr-qc] UPDATED) 2019年10月18日 星期五 下午7:34 | gr-qc updates on arXiv.org Authors: Morgan H. Lynch, Eliahu Cohen, Yaron Hadad, Ido Kaminer We examine the radiation emitted by high energy positrons channeled into silicon crystal samples. The positrons are modeled as semiclassical vector currents coupled to an Unruh-DeWitt detector to incorporate any local change in the energy of the… Read more →

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The Wigner function in the relativistic quantum mechanics. (arXiv:1903.08975v1 [quant-ph])  hep-th updates on arXiv.org on 2019-3-23 1:09am GMT Authors: K. Kowalski, J. Rembielinski A detailed study is presented of the relativistic Wigner function for a quantum spinless particle evolving in time according to the Salpeter equation. A Quantum Mechanics Picture. (arXiv:1612.09114v3 [quant-ph] UPDATED)  quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2019-3-23 1:08am GMT Authors: Jeconias… Read more →

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Dimensional reduction via a novel Higgs mechanism. (arXiv:1806.07520v1 [gr-qc] CROSS LISTED)  hep-th updates on arXiv.org on 2018-6-23 1:03am GMT Authors: Saurya Das, Mir Faizal Many theories of quantum gravity live in higher dimensions, and their reduction to four dimensions via mechanisms such as Kaluza-Klein compactification or brane world models have associated problems. We propose a novel mechanism of dimensional reduction via spontaneous… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (18)

Test of a hypothesis of realism in quantum theory using a Bayesian approach  PRA: Fundamental concepts on 2017-5-05 2:00pm GMT Author(s): N. Nikitin and K. Toms In this paper we propose a time-independent equality and time-dependent inequality, suitable for an experimental test of the hypothesis of realism. The derivation of these relations is based on the concept of conditional probability and on Bayes’… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (18)

This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in various journals or uploaded to preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. The Reality of Casimir Friction. (arXiv:1508.00626v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2016-4-29 12:38am GMT Authors: K. A. Milton, J. S. Høye, I. Brevik For more than 35 years theorists have studied quantum or Casimir friction,… Read more →