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Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (52)

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. Quantum Gravitational Force Between Polarizable Objects. (arXiv:1512.07632v1 [hep-th]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2015-12-26 6:43am GMT Authors: L. H. Ford, Mark P. Hertzberg, J. Karouby Since general relativity is a consistent low energy effective field theory, it… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (51)

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. Fundamental constraints on two-time physics. (arXiv:1512.05345v1 [quant-ph]) hep-th updates on arXiv.org on 2015-12-19 7:40am GMT Authors: E. Piceno, A. Rosado, E. Sadurní We show that generalizations of classical and quantum dynamics with two times lead to fundamentally… Read more →

Epistemic vs Ontic Classi cation of quantum entangled states?

Michele Caponigro and Enrico Giannetto, University of Bergamo In this brief paper, starting from recent works, we analyze from a conceptual point of view this basic question: can the nature of quantum entangled states be interpreted ontologically or epistemologically? According to some works, the degrees of freedom (and the tool of quantum partitions) of quantum systems permit us to establish… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (50)

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. Demonstrating the contextuality of quantum mechanics with observables in Hilbert spaces of arbitrary dimensions. (arXiv:1512.03334v1 [quant-ph]) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2015-12-12 8:03am GMT Authors: A. Laversanne-Finot, A. Ketterer, M. R. Barros, S. P. Walborn, T. Coudreau, A. Keller, P. Milman… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (49)

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. A brief history of the multiverse. (arXiv:1512.01203v1 [hep-th]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2015-12-05 4:07am GMT Authors: Andrei Linde The theory of the inflationary multiverse changes the way we think about our place in the… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (48)

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. A survey of classical and quantum interpretations of experiments on Josephson junctions at very low temperatures ScienceDirect Publication: Physics Reports on 2015-11-27 8:43pm GMT Publication date: Available online 22 November 2015 Source:Physics Reports Author(s): James… Read more →

Expressing QFT in terms of QM with single extra dimension and classical hidden variable field

Roman Sverdlov, University of Mississippi The goal of this paper is to re-express QFT in terms of two “classical” fields living in ordinary space with single extra dimension. The role of the first classical field is to set up an injection from the set of values of extra dimension into the set of functions, and then said injection will be used… Read more →

Resolving the problem of definite outcomes of measurements

Art Hobson, Emeritus Professor of Physics, U Arkansas. The heart of the measurement puzzle, namely the problem of definite outcomes, remains unresolved. This paper shows that Josef Jauch’s 1968 reduced density operator approach is the solution, even though many question it: The entangled “Measurement State” implies local mixtures of definite but indeterminate eigenvalues even though the MS continues evolving unitarily. A second,… Read more →