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Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (49)

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. A brief history of the multiverse. (arXiv:1512.01203v1 [hep-th]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2015-12-05 4:07am GMT Authors: Andrei Linde The theory of the inflationary multiverse changes the way we think about our place in the… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (48)

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. A survey of classical and quantum interpretations of experiments on Josephson junctions at very low temperatures ScienceDirect Publication: Physics Reports on 2015-11-27 8:43pm GMT Publication date: Available online 22 November 2015 Source:Physics Reports Author(s): James… Read more →

Expressing QFT in terms of QM with single extra dimension and classical hidden variable field

Roman Sverdlov, University of Mississippi The goal of this paper is to re-express QFT in terms of two “classical” fields living in ordinary space with single extra dimension. The role of the first classical field is to set up an injection from the set of values of extra dimension into the set of functions, and then said injection will be used… Read more →

Resolving the problem of definite outcomes of measurements

Art Hobson, Emeritus Professor of Physics, U Arkansas. The heart of the measurement puzzle, namely the problem of definite outcomes, remains unresolved. This paper shows that Josef Jauch’s 1968 reduced density operator approach is the solution, even though many question it: The entangled “Measurement State” implies local mixtures of definite but indeterminate eigenvalues even though the MS continues evolving unitarily. A second,… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (47)

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. Local Causality in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Spacetime PhilSci-Archive: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. on 2015-11-20 7:18pm GMT Christian, Joy (2015) Local Causality in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker Spacetime. [Preprint] ‘Shut up and comtemplate!’: Lucien Hardy׳s reasonable… Read more →

A proposed resolution of the delayed-choice paradox

Michael B. Heaney ([email protected]) This paper proposes a resolution of the delayed-choice paradox of the Conventional Theory of quantum mechanics, where a particle seems to know what will happen in the future, and changes its present behavior accordingly. A comparison of the Conventional Theory with an Advanced Theory and a Symmetrical Theory of the same delayed-choice experiment suggests that the apparent paradox is caused… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (46)

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. Quantum theory of nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger equation. (arXiv:1511.03997v1 [quant-ph]) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2015-11-13 9:23am GMT Authors: Vivek M. Vyas, Zodinmawia Nonlocal nonlinear Schrodinger model is quantised and exactly solved using the canonical framework. It… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (45)

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. Living in a Superposition. (arXiv:1511.01550v1 [quant-ph]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2015-11-07 9:22am GMT Authors: James B. Hartle This essay considers a model quantum universe consisting of a very large box containing a screen with… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (44)

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. A parametrix for quantum gravity?. (arXiv:1510.08821v1 [gr-qc]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2015-10-31 7:28am GMT Authors: Giampiero Esposito In the sixties, DeWitt discovered that the advanced and retarded Green functions of the wave operator on… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (43)

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. Multiplicity in Everett׳s interpretation of quantum mechanics ScienceDirect Publication: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics on 2015-10-27 9:45am GMT Publication date: Available online 23… Read more →

Reply to Gillis’s “On the Analysis of Bell’s 1964 Paper by Wiseman, Cavalcanti, and Rieffel” (Open Review Paper)

Howard M. Wiseman, Eleanor G. Rieffel and Eric Cavalcanti We address Gillis’ recent criticism of a series of papers (by different combinations of the present authors) on formulations of Bell’s theorem. Those papers intended to address an unfortunate gap of communication between two broad camps in the quantum foundations community that we identify as “operationalists” and “realists”. Here, we once again urge… Read more →