Duration and its Relationship to the Structure of Space-Time

Andreas Schlatter The notion of duration is a fundamental feature of intuitive time. Under the assumption that the duration of a measurement is defined to produce a result with certainty, we define a universal observer who observes the position of a physical system. We investigate what conclusions for the structure of space-time the universal observer can draw. It turns out that the perspective… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (2)

Weak values obtained from mass-energy equivalence  PRA: Fundamental concepts on 2017-1-13 3:00pm GMT Author(s): Miao Zhang Quantum weak measurement, measuring some observable quantities within the selected subensemble of the entire quantum ensemble, can produce many interesting results such as the superluminal phenomena. An outcome of such a measurement is the weak value which has been applied to amplify some weak… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (1)

[Perspective] The fragility of distant Cooper pairs  Science: Current Issue on 2017-1-06 12:00am GMT The first superconductor was discovered in 1911, when elemental mercury was cooled below the helium liquefaction temperature. Suddenly, it ceased to show any resistance to the flow of electricity. Soon after, it became clear that some metals become superconducting upon cooling, and some do not. Half… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (52)

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. On signatures of spontaneous collapse dynamics modified single field inflation. (arXiv:1612.09131v1 [astro-ph.CO])  gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2016-12-31 7:54am GMT Authors: Shreya Banerjee, Suratna Das, K. Sravan Kumar, T. P. Singh The observed classicality of primordial perturbations, despite… Read more →

Quantum nonlocality observable on a non-statistical level: idea, experimental evidence, fundamental consequences

Sergey A. Emelyanov (A. F. Ioffe Institute) Today quantum nonlocality is discussed only in the context of EPR situation where we face a macroscopic system which is fundamentally indivisible insofar as it consists of entangled distant particles. But quantum formalism implies a one more type of indivisibility. It is the indivisibility of a quantum state per se regardless of its… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (51+)

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. Against free will in the contemporary natural sciences  Philsci-Archive: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. on 2016-12-24 5:33am GMT López-Corredoira, Martín (2016) Against free will in the contemporary natural sciences. [Published Article or Volume]… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (51)

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. Logarithmic corrections to black hole entropy from Kerr/CFT. (arXiv:1612.04833v1 [hep-th]) hep-th updates on arXiv.org on 2016-12-17 1:55am GMT Authors: Abhishek Pathak, Achilleas P. Porfyriadis, Andrew Strominger, Oscar Varela It has been shown by A. Sen that logarithmic corrections… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (50)

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 propagation across cosmological singularities. (arXiv:1612.02792v1 [gr-qc]) hep-th updates on arXiv.org on 2016-12-10 7:33am GMT Authors: Steffen Gielen, Neil Turok The initial singularity is the most troubling feature of the standard cosmology, which quantum effects are… Read more →

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. Echoes from the Abyss: Evidence for Planck-scale structure at black hole horizons. (arXiv:1612.00266v1 [gr-qc]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2016-12-03 3:23am GMT Authors: Jahed Abedi, Hannah Dykaar, Niayesh Afshordi In classical General Relativity (GR), an observer falling… Read more →