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. Theoretical fertility McMullin-style Latest Results for European Journal for Philosophy of Science on 2016-6-03 12:00am GMT Abstract A theory’s fertility is one of the standard theoretical virtues. But how is it to be construed?… Read more →
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. Bell’s Universe: A Personal Recollection. (arXiv:1605.08081v1 [physics.hist-ph]) physics.hist-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2016-5-28 7:32am GMT Authors: Reinhold A. Bertlmann My collaboration and friendship with John Bell is recollected. I will explain his outstanding contributions in… Read more →
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. Running vacuum in the Universe and the time variation of the fundamental constants of Nature. (arXiv:1605.06104v1 [hep-ph]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2016-5-21 8:37am GMT Authors: Harald Fritzsch, Rafael C. Nunes, Joan Sola We compute the time… Read more →
Art Hobson (University of Arkansas) The entangled “Schrodinger’s cat state” of a quantum and its measurement apparatus is not a paradoxical superposition of states but is instead a non-paradoxical superposition of nonlocal coherent correlations between states: An un-decayed nucleus is correlated with a live cat, and a decayed nucleus is correlated with a dead cat. This elucidation of entanglement is demonstrated by quantum-theoretical analysis and… Read more →
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. Spacetime-free Approach to Quantum Theory and Effective Spacetime Structure. (arXiv:1605.03942v1 [gr-qc]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2016-5-14 9:34am GMT Authors: Matti Raasakka Motivated by hints of the effective emergent nature of spacetime structure, we develop… Read more →
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. Physical states in Quantum Einstein-Cartan Gravity. (arXiv:1605.01544v1 [gr-qc]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2016-5-06 12:52am GMT Authors: Francesco Cianfrani The definition of physical states is the main technical issue of canonical approaches towards Quantum Gravity…. Read more →
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 Reality of Casimir Friction. (arXiv:1508.00626v2 [quant-ph] UPDATED) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2016-4-29 12:38am GMT Authors: K. A. Milton, J. S. Høye, I. Brevik For more than 35 years theorists have studied quantum or Casimir friction,… Read more →
Christopher A. Fuchs To appear in “Information & Interaction: Eddington, Wheeler, and the Limits of Knowledge”, edited by Ian T. Durham and Dean Rickles In the Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote, ” ‘I’ is not the name of a person, nor ‘here’ of a place, …. But they are connected with names. … [And] it is characteristic of physics not… Read more →
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. Reflections on the renormalization procedure for gauge theories. (arXiv:1604.06257v1 [hep-th]) hep-th updates on arXiv.org on 2016-4-22 2:48am GMT Authors: Gerard t Hooft Various pieces of insight were needed to formulate the rules for working with… Read more →
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. Dark energy from non-unitarity in quantum theory. (arXiv:1604.04183v1 [gr-qc]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2016-4-16 8:28am GMT Authors: Thibaut Josset, Alejandro Perez, Daniel Sudarsky We consider a scheme whereby it is possible to reconcile semi-classical Einstein’s equation… Read more →
Muhammad Adeel Ajaib (California Polytechnic State University) We show that the first order form of the Schrodinger equation proposed in [1] can be obtained from the Dirac equation in the non-relativistic limit. We also show that the Pauli Hamiltonian is obtained from this equation by requiring local gauge invariance. In addition, we study the problem of a spin up particle… Read more →
