This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Positive-operator-valued measures in the Hamiltonian formulation of quantum mechanics PRA: Fundamental concepts on 2015-6-12 2:00pm GMT Author(s): D. Arsenović, N. Burić, D. B. Popović, M. Radonjić, and S. Prvanović In the Hilbert… Read more →
An attempt is made to reconstruct the postulates of quantum mechanics a priori from rationalist first principles, based on an algorithmic epistemology. The result, I suggest, is close enough to quantum mechanics to potentially serve as the basis for a consistent algorithmic interpretation of it. As a variation on the many worlds (or Everett) interpretation, such a framework provides a… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Copenhagen Quantum Mechanics Emerges from a Deterministic Schrödinger Theory in 11 Dimensional Spacetime Including Weak Field Gravitation Latest Results for Foundations of Physics on 2015-6-06 12:00am GMT Abstract We construct a world… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Multiple choices of time in quantum cosmology Classical and Quantum Gravity – latest papers on 2015-5-28 12:00am GMT It is often conjectured that a choice of time function merely sets up a… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. General relativity as a two-dimensional CFT. (arXiv:1505.05679v1 [gr-qc]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2015-5-22 4:22am GMT Authors: Tim Adamo The tree-level scattering amplitudes of general relativity encode the full non-linearity of the Einstein… Read more →
T. G. Philbin Physics and Astronomy Department, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter EX4 4QL, United Kingdom The predictions of quantum mechanics are probabilistic. Quantum probabilities are extracted using a postulate of the theory called the Born rule, the status of which is central to the “measurement problem” of quantum mechanics. Efforts to justify the Born rule from other physical principles, and… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. The Born Postulate and Time-Reversibility of Quantum Equations of Motion. (arXiv:1505.03670v1 [quant-ph]) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2015-5-15 4:28am GMT Authors: Aleksey V. Ilyin It was repeatedly underlined in literature that quantum mechanics… Read more →
The aim of this paper is to summarize a particular approach of doing metaphysics through physics – the primitive ontology approach. The idea is that any fundamental physical theory has a well-defined architecture, to the foundation of which there is the primitive ontology, which represents matter. According to the framework provided by this approach when applied to quantum mechanics, the… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Protective Measurements: Probing Single Quantum Systems. (arXiv:1505.01591v1 [quant-ph]) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2015-5-08 1:16am GMT Authors: Tabish Qureshi (Center for Theoretical Physics, JMI, Delhi), N.D. Hari Dass (TIFR-TCIS, Hyderabad) Making measurements on single quantum systems… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Mathematical formalism of many-worlds quantum mechanics. (arXiv:1504.08059v1 [quant-ph]) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2015-5-02 9:40am GMT Authors: Zeqian Chen We combine the ideas of Dirac’s orthonormal representation, Everett’s relative state, and ‘t Hooft’s… Read more →
This is a list of this week’s papers on quantum foundations published in the various journals or uploaded to the preprint servers such as arxiv.org and PhilSci Archive. Voices of Silence, Novelties of Noise: Oblivion and Hesitation as Origins of Quantum Mysteries. (arXiv:1504.06241v1 [quant-ph]) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2015-4-25 7:50am GMT Authors: Eliahu Cohen, Avshalom C. Elitzur Among the (in)famous differences… Read more →
