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Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (14)

Conventionalism in general relativity?: formal existence proofs and Reichenbach’s theorem {\theta} in context IJQF Weekly Papers • physics.hist-ph updates on arXiv.org / 7d arXiv:2603.24608v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Weatherall and Manchak (2014) show that, under reasonable assumptions, Reichenbachean universal effects, constrained to a rank-2 tensor field representation in the geodesic equation, always exist in non-relativistic gravity but not so for relativistic spacetimes…. Read more →

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Test of the essential collapse-locality loophole IJQF Weekly Papers • quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 2h arXiv:2603.24909v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Collapse-locality is an untested loophole in the violation of Bell’s inequalities. The core of the argument is that the time value of photon detection is delayed by the time Tc required by the collapse of its quantum state. The value of… Read more →

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Bell-EPR Correlations within Local Quantum Theory IJQF Weekly Papers • quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 2h arXiv:2603.18198v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a local unitary theory of a Bell-EPR measurement, starting with the premeasurement filtering of the individual photon polarizations and extending through the detection process involving four photodetectors, two at each receiving station. The essential feature is that decoherence occurs… Read more →

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Modelling quantum measurements without superposition IJQF Weekly Papers • quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 3h arXiv:2602.17462v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Superposition is the core feature that sets quantum theory apart from classical physics. Here, we investigate whether sets of quantum measurements can be modelled by using only devices that are operationally classical, in the sense that they have no superposition properties. This… Read more →

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Universal Growth of Krylov Complexity Across A Quantum Phase Transition IJQF Weekly Papers • quant-ph updates on arXiv.org / 11h arXiv:2510.13947v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the statistical properties of the spread complexity in the Krylov space of quantum systems driven across a quantum phase transition. Using the diabatic Magnus expansion, we map the evolution to an effective one-dimensional hopping model…. Read more →

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Why the Brain Cannot Be a Digital Computer: History-Dependence and the Computational Limits of Consciousness   from  physics.hist-ph  by  Andrew Knight Fri Mar 14 2025 12:00:00 (22 hours) # 1. arXiv:2503.10518v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a novel information-theoretic proof demonstrating that the human brain as currently understood cannot function as a classical digital computer. Through systematic quantification… Read more →

On the exact solution for the Schrödinger equation

Yair Mulian For almost 75 years, the general solution for the Schrödinger equation was assumed to be generated by a time-ordered exponential known as the Dyson series. We discuss under which conditions the unitarity of this solution is broken, and additional singular dynamics emerges. Then, we provide an alternative construction that is manifestly unitary, regardless of the choice of the… Read more →

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How the Michelson and Morley experiment was reinterpreted by special relativity   from  physics.hist-ph  by  Alejandro Cassini, Leonardo Levinas Fri Jul 19 2024 12:26:11 (23 hours) # 1. arXiv:2407.12960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We elucidate how different theoretical assumptions bring about radically different interpretations of the same experimental result. We do this by analyzing special relativity as it was originally… Read more →

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Gravitational redshift revisited: inertia, geometry, and charge   from  philsci Sat Aug 05 2023 00:58:16 (8 hours) # 1. Fankhauser, Johannes and Read, James (2023) Gravitational redshift revisited: inertia, geometry, and charge. [Preprint]   Send To > Keep unreadDelete Eternal inflation and collapse theories. (arXiv:2308.01383v1 [gr-qc])   from  gr-qc  by  R.L. Lechuga, D. Sudarsky, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de… Read more →

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Collapse Dynamics Are Diffusive   from  PRL: General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.  by  Sandro Donadi, Luca Ferialdi, and Angelo Bassi Fri Jun 09 2023 18:00:00 (15 hours) # 1. Author(s): Sandro Donadi, Luca Ferialdi, and Angelo Bassi Noninterferometric experiments have been successfully employed to constrain models of spontaneous wave function collapse, which predict a violation of… Read more →

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The cosmological frame principle and cosmic acceleration. (arXiv:2304.12733v1 [gr-qc])   from  gr-qc updates on arXiv.org  by  Spiros Cotsakis, Jose P. Mimoso, John Miritzis Wed Apr 26 2023 08:57:12 (2 days) # 7. We discuss cosmological implications of the frame principle which states that physics is independent of frames. We show that there are frame-independent solutions that are globally stable, suggesting… Read more →