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How Quantum Information Theory Solves “the only mystery” of Quantum Mechanics

June 3, 2023
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In Chapter 37 of "The Feynman Lectures on Physics Volume 1," Richard Feynman famously wrote that the mystery of wave-particle duality in the double-slit…
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Quantum Physics via Quantum Tomography: A New Approach to Quantum Mechanics

January 8, 2022
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This Insight article presents the main features of a conceptual foundation of quantum physics with the same characteristic features as classical physics…
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Quantum Eraser

The Quantum Mystery of Wigner’s Friend

November 14, 2018
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In this Insight I will introduce the quantum mystery called ``Wigner's friend'' using Healey's version [1] of Frauchiger and Renner's (FR's) version [2]…
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Super Quantum

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of the Popescu-Rohrlich Correlations

October 23, 2018
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In this Insight, I will show how the Popescu-Rohrlich (superquantum) correlations provide an unreasonable advantage in a particular "quantum guessing game''…
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Spectral Standard Model and String Compactifications

September 26, 2016
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 The Connes-Lott-Chamseddine-Barrett model is the observation that the standard model of particle physics -- as a classical action functional,…
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QM Interpretations: Semantics, Meaning & Probability

February 22, 2016
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Introduction Many times, we encounter ourselves tangled in some Quantum Mechanics (QM) interpretations debates. Unfortunately, the standard of discussion…
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Examples of Prequantum Field Theories III: Chern-Simons-type Theories

October 28, 2015
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  After having constructed gauge fields and higher gauge fields in the previous article by systems of ##L_\infty##-algebroid-valued…
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uncertaintyenergy

Does Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Break Energy Conservation?

October 27, 2015
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Direct answer: No, the Heisenberg time-energy uncertainty relation does not violate conservation of energy in quantum mechanics. The relation describes…
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Some Useful Integrals In Quantum Field Theory

July 4, 2015
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In my paper on renormalisation I mentioned what most who have studied calculations in Quantum Field Theory find, it's rather complicated and mind-numbing.…
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Photoelectric Effect: Debunking the Photon Myth in Physics

May 7, 2015
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Introduction There are many sins in physics didactics. Usually, they occur, because teachers, professors, textbook or popular-science-book writers, etc.…
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