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Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (36)

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. Violation of the Holographic Principle in the Loop Quantum Gravity. (arXiv:1509.00843v1 [gr-qc]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2015-9-05 7:26am GMT Authors: Ozan Sargın, Mir Faizal In this paper, we analyze the holographic principle using loop quantum… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (34)

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 Consistent Histories formalism and the measurement problem SHPMP on 2015-8-21 8:27pm GMT Publication date: Available online 20 August 2015 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of… Read more →

In memory of Bernard d’Espagnat (1921-2015)

We am very sorry to hear of the passing of Bernard d’Espagnat, a distinguished member of our Editorial Board. Prof. d’Espagnat died on 1 August 2015, at age 93 in Paris. He has made important contributions to the foundations of quantum mechanics, and is especially famous for his concept of ‘veiled reality’. He won the 2009 Templeton Prize. Prof. d’Espagnat had been supporting our journal and the… Read more →

Protective Measurement and Quantum Reality: Towards a New Understanding of Quantum Mechanics

Protective measurements offer an intriguing method for measuring the wave function of a single quantum system. With contributions from leading physicists and philosophers of physics – including two of the original discoverers of this important method – this book explores the concept of protective measurement, investigating its broad applications and deep implications. Addressing both physical and philosophical aspects, it covers… Read more →

John Bell Workshop 2014

John Bell Workshop 2014

Bell’s theorem has been called “the most profound discovery of science”. However, there have been controversies on the deep implications of the theorem. The main purpose of this online workshop is to highlight the existing debates and address the controversies. Another purpose is to get some constructive inputs to the forthcoming Bell volume edited by Mary Bell and Shan Gao. This… Read more →

Quantum Phenomena Modeled by Interactions between Many Classical Worlds

Michael J. W. Hall, Dirk-André Deckert, and Howard M. Wiseman, Quantum phenomena modelled by interactions between many classical worlds. Phys. Rev. X 4 041013 [17 pages] (2014). At the request of Dr Shan Gao, I’m posting here a short discussion of this new paper. This work is motivated by the quantum measurement problem, which suggests that orthodox quantum mechanics does not… Read more →

New Schedule of First iWorkshop on the Meaning of the Wave Function

  Saturday, October 25, 2014 MDT (UTC-6): 2pm-3:30pm Richard Healey (University of Arizona): The meaning of the wave function Discussion method: text chat   Sunday, October 26, 2014 CDT (UTC-5): 7.30pm-9pm Valia Allori (Northern Illinois University): Primitive Ontology in a Nutshell Presentation and Discussion method: Skype voice + text chat   Monday, October 27, 2014 EDT (UTC-4): 2pm-3.30pm Lee Smolin (Perimeter Institute… Read more →

First iWorkshop on the Meaning of the Wave Function

First iWorkshop on the Meaning of the Wave Function

During recent years, there is increasing interest in the ontological status and meaning of the wave function, and it seems that there is even a shift in research focus from the measurement problem to the problem of interpreting the wave function. This motivates us to organize an online workshop on the meaning of the wave function. The workshop aims to… Read more →

Submitted paper to IJQF

This is an example of a paper submitted to IJQF via blogs. If you are already a IJQF member, you can log in and post your paper as a PDF attachment like this, and you may also write anything relevant to your paper in your post. We hope the content of the post is informal and intriguing, such as telling personal stories behind the paper etc,… Read more →

Contact IJQF

Prof. Dr. Shan Gao IJQF Editorial Office, Room 718 Research Center for Philosophy of Science and Technology, Shanxi University, China Email: [email protected] Office: +86-03517011215 Mobile: +86-15901397543

Editorial Board

Editors Lajos Diósi, Wigner Research Center for Physics, Hungary Arthur Fine, University of Washington, USA Gordon N. Fleming, Pennsylvania State University, USA Olival Freire Jr., Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Sheldon Goldstein, Rutgers University, USA Robert B. Griffiths, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA Hans Halvorson, Princeton University, USA Richard A. Healey, University of Arizona, USA Basil J. Hiley, University of London, UK… Read more →