Expectation-Realization Interpretation of Quantum Superposition IJQF Weekly Papers • quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 10h arXiv:2511.04154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: By comparing Schr\”odinger’s cat with its classical counterpart, I show that a quantum superposition should be understood as an expectation over possible eigenstates weighted by wave-like probabilities. Upon the occurrence of a certain event, the quantum system is randomly realized into one… Read more →

Quantum mysteries explained in digestible form IJQF Weekly Papers • quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 13h arXiv:2510.20144v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Years ago, Itamar Pitowski asked two relevant questions: Why microphysical (quantum) phenomena and classical phenomena differ in the way they do? and, what kind of explanation could qualify as a reasonable one? I argue that both questions can be answered by… Read more →

Stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics IJQF Weekly Papers • quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 22h arXiv:2510.06418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We express the probabilistic character associated to the wave function by treating it as a stochastic variable. This is accomplished by means of a stochastic equation for the wave function whose noise changes the phase of the wave function but not its… Read more →

Quantum statistical mechanical gauge invariance IJQF Weekly Papers • quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 13h arXiv:2509.20494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We address gauge invariance in the statistical mechanics of quantum many-body systems. The gauge transformation acts on the position and momentum degrees of freedom and it is represented by a quantum shifting superoperator that maps quantum observables onto each other. The shifting… Read more →

Retrocausal capacity of a quantum channel IJQF Weekly Papers • quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 13h arXiv:2509.08965v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the capacity of a quantum channel for retrocausal communication, where messages are transmitted backward in time, from a sender in the future to a receiver in the past, through a noisy postselected closed timelike curve (P-CTC) represented by the… Read more →

Symmetry enforces entanglement at high temperatures IJQF Weekly Papers • quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 17h arXiv:2508.20166v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many-body quantum systems with local interactions undergo “sudden death of entanglement” at high temperatures, whereby thermal states become classical mixtures of product states. We investigate whether symmetry constraints can prevent this phenomenon. We prove that strongly symmetric thermal states (canonical ensemble)… Read more →