Interpretations and Extensions of Quantum Mechanics

Presentations

• The Private Lives of Photons: asking particles where they spent the night

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 20, 2026, 8:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM

  Publication: [1] Observation of the nonlinear phase shift due to single post-selected photons, Amir Feizpour et al., Nat. Phys. 11, 905 (2015)
  [2] How the Result of Counting One Photon Can Turn Out to Be a Value of 8, Matin Hallaji et al., Nat. Phys. 13, 540 (2017)
  [3] Measuring the time atoms spend in the excited state due to a photon they do not absorb, Josiah Sinclair et al., PRX Quantum 3, 010314 (2022)
  [4] How much time does a resonant photon spend as an atomic excitation before being transmitted?, Kyle Thompson et al., APL Quantum 2, 036108 (2025)
  [5] Experimental evidence that a photon can spend a negative amount of time in an atom cloud, Daniela Angulo et al., quant-ph/2409.03680
  

  Presenters

  • Aephraim Steinberg

    • University of Toronto

  Authors

  • Aephraim Steinberg

    • University of Toronto

  • Daniela Angulo Murcillo

    • University of Toronto

  • Kyle Thompson

    • University of Toronto

  • Andy Jiao

    • University of Toronto

  • Josiah Sinclair

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Howard Wiseman

    • Griffith University

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• Entanglement and magic on the light-front

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 8:48 AM

  Publication: arXiv:2507.10777

  Presenters

  • Sam Alterman

    • Tufts University

  Authors

  • Sam Alterman

    • Tufts University

  • Peter Love

    • Tufts University

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• Bounds on Quantum Cellular Automaton Lattice Spacing from Data on Lorentz Violation

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 8:48 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:00 AM

  Publication: Phys. Rev. D 112, 074513 (2025), arXiv:2506.20136.

  Presenters

  • Todd Brun

    • University of Southern California

  Authors

  • Todd Brun

    • University of Southern California

  • Leonard Mlodinow

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• Abstract Withdrawn

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  March 20, 2026, 9:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:12 AM

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• Do Superconducting Qubits Challenge The Copenhagen Interpretation?

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:12 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Ramakrishna Podila

    • Clemson University

  Authors

  • Ramakrishna Podila

    • Clemson University

  • Gargee Sharma

  • Prosanta Pal

    • Clemson University

  • Shubhanshu Karoliya

    • Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi (IIT)

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• On the Dynamics of Local Hidden-Variable Models

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:24 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:36 AM

  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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• Effect of local scale invariance in Aharnov-Bohm setup using non-hermitian pilot-wave (deBroglie-Bohm) theory

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 9:48 AM

  Publication: Quantum local scale invariance and non-hermitian pilot-wave theory: Theory, Quantum local scale invariance and non-hermitian pilot-wave theory: Experimental Predictions (to be published)

  Presenters

  • Indrajit Sen

    • Georgia Gwinnett College

  Authors

  • Indrajit Sen

    • Georgia Gwinnett College

  • Matthew Leifer

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• Consensus About Classical Reality in a Quantum Universe

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 9:48 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM

  Publication: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.14791

  Presenters

  • Akram Touil

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  Authors

  • Akram Touil

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Bin Yan

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Wojciech Zurek

    • Los Alamos Natl Lab

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• Weak Values without State Vectors

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:00 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:12 AM

  Presenters

  • Ken Wharton

    • San Jose State University

  Authors

  • Ken Wharton

    • San Jose State University

  • Abhishek Roy

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• The General Overfitter: Laws as Look-Ahead Contracts in Irreducible Physics

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:12 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:24 AM

  Presenters

  • Arbaaz Mahmood

    • University of Essex

  Authors

  • Arbaaz Mahmood

    • University of Essex

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• Abstract Withdrawn

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  March 20, 2026, 10:24 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:36 AM

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• Quantitative and Optimal Device-Independent Lower Bounds on Detection Efficiency

  Oral-In-person

  March 20, 2026, 10:36 AM – March 20, 2026, 10:48 AM

  Presenters

  • Arkaprabha Ghosal

    • University of New Orleans

  Authors

  • Arkaprabha Ghosal

    • University of New Orleans

  • Soumyadip Patra

  • Peter Bierhorst

    • University of New Orleans

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