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Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (6)

History of Lattice Field Theory from a Statistical Perspective   from physics.hist-ph by Wolfgang BietenholzFri Feb 16 2024 13:58:48 (20 hours)# 1. arXiv:2402.09628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Researchers working in lattice field theory constitute an established community since the early 1990s, and around the same time the online open-access e-print repository arXiv was created. The fact that this field has a specific arXiv… Read more →

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Beyond Classification and Prediction: The Promise of Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Astronomy and Cosmology   from philsciFri Feb 09 2024 22:02:20 (14 hours)# 1. Meskhidze, Helen (2024) Beyond Classification and Prediction: The Promise of Physics-Informed Machine Learning in Astronomy and Cosmology. [Preprint] Send To > Keep unreadDelete On the reality of the quantum state once again: A no-go theorem for psi-ontic models?… Read more →

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Decoherence-Free Subspaces Cannot Prevent the Collapse of Wave Functions   from quant-ph by Alfred Li Herschel A. Rabitz Benjamin LienhardFri Feb 02 2024 20:56:49 (16 hours)# 1. Ensuring the effectiveness of quantum information processing relies on prolonged coherence times and precise quantum control. Investigating the limitations of quantum information processing is vital for advancing the development of quantum processors and algorithms. One common… Read more →

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Feynman’s Reversed Sprinkler Puzzle Solved   from APS selected papers by Philip BallFri Jan 26 2024 05:00:00 (1 day)# 1. Author(s): Philip Ball Which direction would an S-shaped lawn sprinkler rotate if it were submerged and the flow were reversed? Experiments now provide a definitive answer. [Physics 17, 15] Published Fri Jan 26, 2024 Send To > Keep unreadDelete Measures of distance in quantum… Read more →

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Robustness and the Event Horizon Telescope: the case of the first image of M87*   from philsciThu Jan 18 2024 01:58:47 (8 hours)# 1. Doboszewski, Juliusz and Elder, Jamee (2024) Robustness and the Event Horizon Telescope: the case of the first image of M87*. [Preprint] Send To > Keep unreadDelete A new theory of causation based on probability distribution determinism   from philsciWed… Read more →

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The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism   from philsciWed Jan 10 2024 14:24:00 (3 hours)# 1. Le Bihan, Baptiste (2024) The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism. [Preprint] Send To > Keep unreadDelete Physicists’ Views on Scientific Realism   from philsciWed Jan 10 2024 04:13:54 (13 hours)# 2. Henne, Céline and Tomczyk, Hannah and Sperber, Christopher… Read more →

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Relativity and Quantum Theory: Under the Spell of Today’s Paradigms. (arXiv:2312.17693v1 [physics.hist-ph])   from physics.hist-ph by Stefan WeigertMon Jan 01 2024 11:29:57 (5 hours)# 1. Thomas S. Kuhn interprets the development of the (natural) sciences as a specific dynamical process. Periods of piecemeal growth of knowledge based on widely accepted paradigms are interrupted by bursts of revolutionary changes which lead to new paradigms… Read more →

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Electrodynamic Aharonov-Bohm effect   from PRA – fundamentalconcepts by Pablo L. SaldanhaFri Dec 22 2023 18:00:00 (16 hours)# 1. Author(s): Pablo L. Saldanha We propose an electrodynamic Aharonov-Bohm (AB) scheme where a nonzero AB phase difference appears even if the interferometer paths do not enclose a magnetic flux and are subjected to negligible scalar potential differences during the propagation of the quantum charged… Read more →

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Better Foundations for Subjective Probability   from philsciSat Dec 16 2023 08:30:12 (2 hours)# 1. Neth, Sven (2023) Better Foundations for Subjective Probability. [Preprint] Send To > Keep unreadDelete The entropy of finite gravitating regions. (arXiv:2312.08434v1 [hep-th])   from gr-qc by Vijay Balasubramanian, Charlie CummingsFri Dec 15 2023 11:11:08 (23 hours)# 2. We develop a formalism for calculating the entanglement entropy of an arbitrary spatial… Read more →

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Quantum reference frames, revisited. (arXiv:2312.03811v1 [gr-qc])   from  quant-ph  by  Matthew J. Lake, Marek Miller Fri Dec 08 2023 12:50:44 (1 day) # 1. The topic of quantum reference frames (QRFs) has attracted a great deal of attention in the recent literature. Potentially, the correct description of such frames is important for both the technological applications of quantum mechanics and… Read more →

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Might There Be No Quantum Gravity After All?   from  APS selected papers  by  Thomas Galley Mon Dec 04 2023 18:00:00 (19 hours) # 1. Author(s): Thomas Galley A proposed model unites quantum theory with classical gravity by assuming that states evolve in a probabilistic way, like a game of chance. [Physics 16, 203] Published Mon Dec 04, 2023   Send… Read more →