This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Causality and chance in relativistic quantum field theories ScienceDirect Publication: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics on 2014-11-29 11:57am GMT Publication… Read more →
Jean Bricmont Submitted to “Quantum Nonlocality and Reality – 50 Years of Bell’s theorem” The goal of this paper is to give a pedagogical introduction to Bell’s theorem and its implication for our view of the physical world, in particular how it establishes the existence of non local effects or of actions at a distance. We also discuss several misunderstandings… Read more →
Philip Pearle Submitted to “Quantum Nonlocality and Reality – 50 Years of Bell’s theorem” John Bell was a staunch supporter of the dynamical wave function collapse approach to making a well-defined quantum theory. Through letters from him, I reminisce on my handful of interactions with him, all of which were memorable to me. Then, non-locality, violation of Bell’s inequality and… Read more →
ABSTRACT. It is argued that the severe consequences of Haag’s inconsistency theorem for quantum field theories can be successfully evaded in the direct-action approach. Some recent favorable comments of John Wheeler, often mistakenly presumed to have abandoned his own (and Feynman’s) direct-action theory, together with the remarkable immunity of direct-action quantum electrodynamics to Haag’s theorem, suggest that it may well… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Holographic Signatures of Cosmological Singularities. (arXiv:1404.2309v3 [hep-th] UPDATED) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2014-11-21 9:07am GMT Authors: Netta Engelhardt, Thomas Hertog, Gary T. Horowitz To gain insight in the quantum nature of cosmological singularities, we… Read more →
Richard A. Healey Submitted to “Quantum Nonlocality and Reality – 50 Years of Bell’s theorem” In papers published in the 25 years following his famous 1964 proof John Bell refined and reformulated his views on locality and causality. Although his formulations of local causality were in terms of probability, he had little to say about that notion. But assumptions about probability are implicit in… Read more →
International Journal of Quantum Foundations (ISSN 2375-4729) has started a new type of open peer review for some received manuscripts. We hope this will help improve the peer review process of this journal. Here are two examples #1 and #2. Thanks to the authors and the reviewers for their support for this new system. Although most papers are still reviewed in the standard way, there will… Read more →
This contribution to the book in honour of J.S. Bell will probably differ from the remaining ones, in particular since only a part of it will be devoted to specific technical arguments. In fact I have considered appropriate to share with the community of physicists interested in the foundational problems of our best theory the repeated interactions I had with… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Waiting for the quantum bus: The flow of negative probability ScienceDirect Publication: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics on 2014-11-15 10:51am… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. The large-scale structure of vacuum. (arXiv:1405.3900v2 [gr-qc] UPDATED) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2014-11-07 4:50am GMT Authors: F. D. Albareti, J. A. R. Cembranos, A. L. Maroto The vacuum state in quantum field theory is… Read more →
The preposterous title of this post is also the title of my contribution to the Special Issue on Quantum Nonlocality and Reality — 50 Years of Bell’s theorem. Abstract: Quantum theory’s violation of remote outcome independence is assessed in the context of a novel interpretation of the theory, in which the unavoidable distinction between the classical and quantum domains is… Read more →
