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

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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 →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (42)

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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. Interpretation Neutrality in the Classical Domain of Quantum Theory PhilSci-Archive: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. on 2015-10-15 11:55pm GMT Rosaler, Joshua (2015) Interpretation Neutrality in the Classical Domain of Quantum Theory. [Preprint] Quantum… Read more →

Timeless Approach to Quantum Jumps

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TimelessQJ   Timeless Approach to Quantum Jumps Ignazio Licata 1;2 & Leonardo Chiatti 3 1 ISEM Institute for Scientific Methodology, Palermo, Italy. E-mail: ignazio.licata@ejtp.info 2 School of Advanced International Studies on Applied Theoretical and Nonlinear Methodologies in Physics, Bari, Italy 3 AUSL VT Medical Physics Laboratory, Via Enrico Fermi 15, Viterbo, Italy. E-mail: leonardo.chiatti@asl.vt.it Editors: Eliahu Cohen & John Ashmead… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (41)

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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. Comment on decoherence by time dilation. (arXiv:1510.02239v1 [quant-ph]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2015-10-10 8:49am GMT Authors: H. Dieter Zeh Remarks regarding a novel decoherence mechanism [arXiv:1311.1095]. Generalized Second Law for Cosmology. (arXiv:1510.02099v1 [hep-th]) gr-qc… Read more →

Decompositional equivalence: A fundamental symmetry underlying quantum theory

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Chris Fields Decompositional equivalence is the principle that there is no preferred decomposition of the universe into subsystems. It is shown here, by using a simple thought experiment, that quantum theory follows from decompositional equivalence together with Landauer’s principle. This demonstration raises within physics a question previously left to psychology: how do human – or any – observers identify or agree about what… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (40)

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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. Weyl’s search for a difference between `physical’ and `mathematical’ automorphisms. (arXiv:1510.00156v1 [physics.hist-ph]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2015-10-03 8:29am GMT Authors: Erhard Scholz During his whole scientific life Hermann Weyl was fascinated by the interrelation… Read more →

Weekly Papers on Quantum Foundations (39)

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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. Effects of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle on Quantum Tunneling. (arXiv:1509.07359v1 [quant-ph]) gr-qc updates on arXiv.org on 2015-9-25 9:55am GMT Authors: Gardo Blado, Trevor Prescott, James Jennings, Joshuah Ceyanes, Rafael Sepulveda In a previous paper [Blado G, Owens C, and… Read more →