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Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (11)

Conservation of Energy: Missing Features in Its Nature and Justification and Why They Matter 上午4:55 | Philsci-Archive: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. Pitts, J. Brian (2020) Conservation of Energy: Missing Features in Its Nature and Justification and Why They Matter. Foundations of Science. ISSN 1233-1821 Collapse Theories 上午4:39 | Philsci-Archive: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. Lewis, Peter J…. Read more →

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Newton’s discrete dynamics. (arXiv:2003.02702v1 [physics.class-ph]) 上午9:49 | physics.hist-ph updates on arXiv.org Authors: Søren Toxvaerd In 1687 Isaac Newton published PHILOSOPHI\AE \ NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA, where the classical analytic dynamics was formulated. But Newton also formulated a discrete dynamics, which is the central difference algorithm, known as the Verlet algorithm. In fact Newton used the central difference to derive his second law…. Read more →

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Vacuum entanglement harvesting with a zero mode. (arXiv:2002.11790v1 [quant-ph]) 下午12:05 | Erickson Tjoa, Eduardo Martín-Martínez | quant-ph updates on arXiv.org We investigate vacuum entanglement harvesting in the presence of a zero mode. We show that, for a variety of detector models and couplings (namely, Unruh-DeWitt qubit and harmonic oscillator detectors, amplitude and derivative coupling), the results are strongly dependent on… Read more →

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Bayes Nets and Rationality 下午1:40 | Philsci-Archive: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. Hartmann, Stephan (2020) Bayes Nets and Rationality. [Preprint] Detecting a logarithmic nonlinearity in the Schr\”odinger equation using Bose-Einstein condensates. (arXiv:2002.08877v1 [quant-ph]) 上午9:41 | Sascha Vowe, Claus Lämmerzahl, Markus Krutzik | quant-ph updates on arXiv.org We study the effect of a logarithmic nonlinearity in the Schr\”odinger equation (SE)… Read more →

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Studying Scientific Thought Experiments in Their Context: Albert Einstein and Electromagnetic Induction 下午2:34 | Philsci-Archive: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. Potters, Jan and Leuridan, Bert (2017) Studying Scientific Thought Experiments in Their Context: Albert Einstein and Electromagnetic Induction. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 58. pp. 1-11. ISSN 1355-2198 Revisiting the Genesis of ‘Many-Worlds’ 下午2:31 | Philsci-Archive:… Read more →

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Joseph Polchinski: A Biographical Memoir. (arXiv:2002.02371v1 [physics.hist-ph]) 上午9:47 | physics.hist-ph updates on arXiv.org Authors: Raphael Bousso, Fernando Quevedo, Steven Weinberg Joseph Polchinski (1954-2018), one of the the leading theoretical physicists of the past 50 years, was an exceptionally broad and deep thinker. He made fundamental contributions to quantum field theory, advancing the role of the renormalization group, and to cosmology, addressing the cosmological… Read more →

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A Note on Hierarchy of Quantum Measurement Incompatibilities. (arXiv:2001.11326v1 [quant-ph]) 上午9:26 | Bao-Zhi Sun, hi-Xi Wang, Xianqing Li-Jost, Shao-Ming Fei | quant-ph updates on arXiv.org The quantum measurement incompatibility is a distinctive feature of quantum mechanics. We investigate the incompatibility of a set of general measurements and classify the incompatibility by the hierarchy of compatibilities of its subsets. By using… Read more →

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Experimental Transmission of Quantum Information Using a Superposition of Causal Orders 2020年1月24日 星期五 下午6:00 | Yu Guo, Xiao-Min Hu, Zhi-Bo Hou, Huan Cao, Jin-Ming Cui, Bi-Heng Liu, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, and Giulio Chiribella | PRL: General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc. Author(s): Yu Guo, Xiao-Min Hu, Zhi-Bo Hou, Huan Cao, Jin-Ming Cui, Bi-Heng Liu,… Read more →

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A Categorical Reconstruction of Quantum Theory. (arXiv:1804.02265v4 [quant-ph] UPDATED) 上午9:26 | Sean Tull | quant-ph updates on arXiv.org We reconstruct finite-dimensional quantum theory from categorical principles. That is, we provide properties ensuring that a given physical theory described by a dagger compact category in which one may `discard’ objects is equivalent to a generalised finite-dimensional quantum theory over a suitable… Read more →

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Information geometry in quantum field theory: lessons from simple examples. (arXiv:2001.02683v1 [hep-th]) 上午10:07 | Johanna Erdmenger, Kevin T. Grosvenor, Ro Jefferson | quant-ph updates on arXiv.org Motivated by the increasing connections between information theory and high-energy physics, particularly in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence, we explore the information geometry associated to a variety of simple systems. By studying their… Read more →

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The Platonic solids and fundamental tests of quantum mechanics. (arXiv:2001.00188v1 [quant-ph]) 上午9:05 | Armin Tavakoli, Nicolas Gisin | quant-ph updates on arXiv.org The Platonic solids is the name traditionally given to the five regular convex polyhedra, namely the tetradron, the octahedron, the cube, the icosahedron and the dodecahedron. Perhaps strongly boosted by the towering historical influence of their namesake, these… Read more →