Quantum Foundations: Measurements, Contextuality, and Classicality

Presentations

• A Foundational Perspective on PT-Symmetric Quantum Theory

  ORAL

  March 19, 2025, 3:00 PM – March 19, 2025, 3:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Matt Leifer

    • Chapman University
    • Chapman

  Authors

  • Matt Leifer

    • Chapman University
    • Chapman

  • Indrajit Sen

    • Georgia Gwinnett College

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• Typical Quantum States of the Universe are Observationally Indistinguishable

  ORAL

  March 19, 2025, 3:12 PM – March 19, 2025, 3:24 PM

  Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16860

  Presenters

  • Eddy Keming Chen

    • University of California, San Diego

  Authors

  • Eddy Keming Chen

    • University of California, San Diego

  • Roderich Tumulka

    • Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

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• Discovering Local Hidden-Variable Models for Arbitrary Multipartite Entangled States and Arbitrary Measurements

  ORAL

  March 19, 2025, 3:24 PM – March 19, 2025, 3:36 PM

  Publication: ArXiv: 2407.04673

  Presenters

  • Nick von Selzam

    • Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

  Authors

  • Nick von Selzam

    • Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light

  • Florian Marquardt

    • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg

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• New Insights into the SIC-POVM Fiducials

  ORAL

  March 19, 2025, 3:36 PM – March 19, 2025, 3:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Sachin Gupta

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

  Authors

  • Sachin Gupta

    • University of Massachusetts Boston

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• Redundancy, Objectivity, and Compatibility in Quantum Measurements

  ORAL

  March 19, 2025, 3:48 PM – March 19, 2025, 4:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Emery Doucet

    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

  Authors

  • Emery Doucet

    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

  • Sebastian Deffner

    • University of Maryland Baltimore County

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• Consensus About Classical Reality in a Quantum Universe

  ORAL

  March 19, 2025, 4:00 PM – March 19, 2025, 4:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Akram Touil

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  Authors

  • Akram Touil

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Bin Yan

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Wojciech H Zurek

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

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• On the Origin of Classicality: Quantum Darwinism in Superconducting Circuits

  ORAL

  March 19, 2025, 4:12 PM – March 19, 2025, 4:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Kiera Salice

    • University of Houston

  Authors

  • Kiera Salice

    • University of Houston

  • Zitian Zhu

    • Zhejiang Key Laboratory and Micro-nano Quantum Chips and Quantum Control, Zhejiang University

  • Zehang Bao

    • Zhejiang Key Laboratory and Micro-nano Quantum Chips and Quantum Control, Zhejiang University

  • Qiujiang Guo

    • Zhejiang University

  • Akram Touil

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Rubem Mondaini

    • University of Houston, Texas
    • University of Houston
    • University of Housto, Houston, Texas
    • Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77004; Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204

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  ORAL · Withdrawn

  March 19, 2025, 4:24 PM – March 19, 2025, 4:36 PM

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• Optimizing Noncontextual Representations in GPTs

  ORAL

  March 19, 2025, 4:36 PM – March 19, 2025, 4:48 PM

  Publication: We plan to submit this work under the title, "Geometric Interpretation of Contextuality" to PRX Quantum.

  Presenters

  • Theodoros Yianni

    • Royal Holloway, University of London

  Authors

  • Theodoros Yianni

    • Royal Holloway, University of London

  • Farid Shahandeh

    • Royal Holloway University of London

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• Contextuality as a signature of quantum chaos

  ORAL

  March 19, 2025, 4:48 PM – March 19, 2025, 5:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Sanchit Srivastava

    • University of Waterloo

  Authors

  • Sanchit Srivastava

    • University of Waterloo

  • Shohini Ghose

    • Wilfrid Laurier University

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• Causal Inference Meets Quantum Physics

  ORAL · Invited

  March 19, 2025, 5:00 PM – March 19, 2025, 5:36 PM

  Publication: Polino et al., Experimental nonclassicality in a causal network without assuming freedom of choice, Nature Communications 14, 909 (2023)

  Presenters

  • Robert W Spekkens

    • Perimeter Inst for Theo Phys

  Authors

  • Robert W Spekkens

    • Perimeter Inst for Theo Phys

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• Covariant Integral Quantization of the Semi-Discrete Cylinder

  ORAL

  March 19, 2025, 5:36 PM – March 19, 2025, 5:48 PM

  Publication: J.P. Gazeau, R. Murenzi, Quantum Rep. 2022, 4

  Presenters

  • Aidan H Zlotak

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  Authors

  • Aidan H Zlotak

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Romain Murenzi

    • Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  • Jean-Pierre Gazeau

    • University of Paris
    • CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Cité

  • Nicolas Fabre

    • Telecom Paris

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