Casimir interactions as a probe of broadband optical response
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arXiv:2601.10118v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Casimir forces arise from quantum electromagnetic fluctuations and depend on the dielectric response of interacting materials across the entire frequency spectrum. Although this dependence is central to Lifshitz theory of the Casimir effect, the formulation of the force in terms of dielectric functions evaluated at imaginary frequencies has largely o
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arXiv:2507.04951v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The term emergence is increasingly used across scientific disciplines to describe phenomena that arise from interactions among a system’s components but cannot be readily inferred by examining those components in isolation. While often invoked to explain higher-level behaviors, such as flocking, synchronization, or collective intelligence,
Remarkable Dates and Place: One Hundred Years Ago
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arXiv:2601.05337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Exactly a century ago, wave quantum mechanics was born in Arosa, Switzerland. Erwin Schr\”{o}dinger was vacationing in this classic Swiss Alps town at Christmas 1925 when he made his breakthrough discovery of the wave equation \cite{SchrQMI}.
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arXiv:2503.08753v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We show that heat defines a gauge connection on a line bundle over work configurations. Vanishing curvature is equivalent to the local existence of entropy and temperature functions such that heat can be expressed as $TdS$. A conjecture of Jauch, that entropy and temperature arise from a conservation law, is shown to follow as a special cas
Determinism and Indeterminism as Model Artefacts: Toward a Model-Invariant Ontology of Physics
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arXiv:2512.22540v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper argues that the traditional opposition between determinism and indeterminism in physics is representational rather than ontological. Deterministic-stochastic dualities are available in principle, and arise in a non-contrived way in many scientifically important models. When dynamical systems admit mathematically equivalent deterministi
Quantum model for black holes and clocks
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arXiv:2601.07437v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We consider a stationary quantum system consisting of two non-interacting yet entangled subsystems, $\Xi$ and $\Gamma$. We identify a quantum theory characterizing $\Xi$ such that, in the quantum-to-classical crossover of the composite system, $\Gamma$ behaves as a test particle within the gravitational field of a Schwarzschild Black Hole (SBH) nea
Mati\`ere noire et (ou) gravitation modifi\’ee : une approche historique et \’epist\’emologique
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arXiv:2601.06592v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The current standard model of cosmology assumes that the majority of matter in the Universe is made of dark matter, and that the latter is fundamentally different from ordinary matter. Dark matter can in principle explain the rotation of galaxies, the gravitational lensing from galaxy clusters or the appearance of the cosmic microwave background, t
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arXiv:2601.06346v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Certain approaches to quantum gravity, such as the one based on the concept of purely virtual particles (fakeons), sacrifice the cause-effect relation at very small scales to reconcile renormalizability with unitarity. Other developments have also urged caution regarding the idea of causality as a fundamental principle. In this paper, we examine th
Wave Function Realism and the Mathematization of Nature. A Phenomenological Perspective
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arXiv:2601.06618v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This chapter reexamines wave function realism (WFR) through the lens of phenomenology. We begin by situating WFR within the broader debate about the ontology of the quantum state and the temptation to “read off” metaphysics from mathematical formalism. Against this background, we turn to the London-Bauer interpretation (LBI), the most explicit attemp
Bohmian mechanics: A legitimate hydrodynamic picture for quantum mechanics, and beyond
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arXiv:2601.07932v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Since its inception, Bohmian mechanics has been surrounded by a halo of controversy. Originally proposed to bypass the limitations imposed by von Neumann’s theorem on the impossibility of hidden-variable models in quantum mechanics, it faced strong opposition from the outset. Over time, however, its use in tackling specific problems across various
Local Scale Invariance in Quantum Theory: Experimental Predictions
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arXiv:2601.07883v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We explore the experimental predictions of the local scale invariant, non-Hermitian pilot-wave (de Broglie-Bohm) formulation of quantum theory introduced in arXiv:2601.03567. We use Weyl’s definition of gravitational radius of charge to obtain the fine-structure constant for non-integrable scale effects $\alpha_S$. The minuteness of $\alpha_S$ rela
Reframing the Free Will Debate: The Universe is Not Deterministic
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arXiv:2503.19672v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Free will discourse is primarily centred around the thesis of determinism. Much of the literature takes determinism as its starting premise, assuming it true for the sake of discussion, and then proceeds to present arguments for why, if determinism is true, free will would be either possible or impossible. This is reflected in the theoretical ter
Viewpoint: On the Emergence of van der Waals Magnets: A Personal Reflection
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arXiv:2601.09759v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The observation of magnetism in atomically thin van der Waals (vdW) antiferromagnets (FePS$_3$, NiPS$_3$, and MnPS$_3$) in 2016 marked an important moment in the development of two-dimensional (2D) physics. In this personal reflection, I describe how a simple question, posed in the early 2010s, motivated experimental efforts that culminated in the de
Looking for Work in Quantum Thermodynamics
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Chua, Eugene Y. S. (2026) . [Preprint]
Out of Sight, Not Out of Mind: Scientific Progress in (quasi) de Sitter Cosmology
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Bamonti, Nicola (2025) . [Preprint]
Deflating the Spacetime-Matter Dichotomy
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Ferreiro, Antonio and Fleuren, Alex and Martens, Niels C.M. (2025) . [Preprint]
Saving the Appearances: the Direction of Time and Time- Reversal Invariance
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Lopez, Cristian (2025) . [Preprint]
Relational Unsharp Properties: A POVM-Based Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics
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Fano, Vincenzo and Salzano, Simone and Sanchioni, Marco (2026) . [Preprint]
Gatekeeping: a Partial History of Cold Fusion
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Messinger, Jonah F and Metzler, Florian and Price, Huw (2025) . [Preprint]
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Pickering, Phil and Baron, Sam and Tanner, John (2026) . [Preprint]
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Halvorson, Hans and Manchak, JB and Weatherall, James Owen (2025) . [Preprint]
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Kryukov, Alexey (2026) . [Preprint]
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