Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (49)

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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. Convergence of empirical distributions in an interpretation of quantum mechanics. (arXiv:1412.1563v1 [quant-ph]) quant-ph updates on arXiv.org on 2014-12-05 11:44am GMT Authors: Ian W. McKeague, Bruce Levin From its beginning, there have been attempts by… Read more →

Local Beables and the Foundations of Physics

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Tim Maudlin Submitted to “Quantum Nonlocality and Reality – 50 Years of Bell’s theorem” John Bell’s most celebrated contribution to the foundations of physics is his famous theorem. The theorem demonstrates that any physical theory capable of generating the predictions of the standard quantum-mechanical algorithm, in particular the prediction of violations of Bell’s inequality for experiments done at space-like separation,… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (48)

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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. Causality and chance in relativistic quantum field theories ScienceDirect Publication: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics on 2014-11-29 11:57am GMT Publication… Read more →

What did Bell really prove?

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Jean Bricmont Submitted to “Quantum Nonlocality and Reality – 50 Years of Bell’s theorem” The goal of this paper is to give a pedagogical introduction to Bell’s theorem and its implication for our view of the physical world, in particular how it establishes the existence of non local effects or of actions at a distance. We also discuss several misunderstandings… Read more →

Interactions and Inequality

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Philip Pearle Submitted to “Quantum Nonlocality and Reality – 50 Years of Bell’s theorem” John Bell was a staunch supporter of the dynamical wave function collapse approach to making a well-defined quantum theory. Through letters from him, I reminisce on my handful of interactions with him, all of which were memorable to me. Then, non-locality, violation of Bell’s inequality and… Read more →

Submitted paper: Haag’s Theorem as a Reason to Reconsider Direct-Action Theories

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ABSTRACT. It is argued that the severe consequences of Haag’s inconsistency theorem for quantum field theories can be successfully evaded in the direct-action approach. Some recent favorable comments of John Wheeler, often mistakenly presumed to have abandoned his own (and Feynman’s) direct-action theory, together with the remarkable immunity of direct-action quantum electrodynamics to Haag’s theorem, suggest that it may well… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (47)

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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. Holographic Signatures of Cosmological Singularities. (arXiv:1404.2309v3 [hep-th] UPDATED) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2014-11-21 9:07am GMT Authors: Netta Engelhardt, Thomas Hertog, Gary T. Horowitz To gain insight in the quantum nature of cosmological singularities, we… Read more →

IJQF starts open peer review

IJQF starts open peer review

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International Journal of Quantum Foundations (ISSN 2375-4729) has started a new type of open peer review for some received manuscripts.  We hope this will help improve the peer review process of this journal. Here are two examples #1 and #2. Thanks to the authors and the reviewers for their support for this new system. Although most papers are still reviewed in the standard way, there will… Read more →