Interpretations and Extensions of Quantum Mechanics
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Presentations
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The Private Lives of Photons: asking particles where they spent the night
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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
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Aephraim Steinberg
- University of Toronto
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Aephraim Steinberg
- University of Toronto
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Daniela Angulo Murcillo
- University of Toronto
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Kyle Thompson
- University of Toronto
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Andy Jiao
- University of Toronto
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Josiah Sinclair
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Howard Wiseman
- Griffith University
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Entanglement and magic on the light-front
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Publication: arXiv:2507.10777
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Sam Alterman
- Tufts University
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Sam Alterman
- Tufts University
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Peter Love
- Tufts University
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Bounds on Quantum Cellular Automaton Lattice Spacing from Data on Lorentz Violation
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Publication: Phys. Rev. D 112, 074513 (2025), arXiv:2506.20136.
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Todd Brun
- University of Southern California
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Todd Brun
- University of Southern California
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Leonard Mlodinow
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Artificial spacetime, topological instanton, and emerging electrodynamics in pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics
Oral-In-person · Withdrawn
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Publication: K. Deng, R. Cheng, Phys. Rev. Lett. 135, 126609 (2025)
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Kuangyin Deng
- University of California, Riverside
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Ran Cheng
- University of California, Riverside
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Kuangyin Deng
- University of California, Riverside
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Do Superconducting Qubits Challenge The Copenhagen Interpretation?
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Ramakrishna Podila
- Clemson University
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Ramakrishna Podila
- Clemson University
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Gargee Sharma
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Prosanta Pal
- Clemson University
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Shubhanshu Karoliya
- Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi (IIT)
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On the Dynamics of Local Hidden-Variable Models
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Nick von Selzam
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
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Nick von Selzam
- Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light
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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
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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)
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Indrajit Sen
- Georgia Gwinnett College
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Indrajit Sen
- Georgia Gwinnett College
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Matthew Leifer
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Consensus About Classical Reality in a Quantum Universe
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Publication: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2503.14791
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Akram Touil
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
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Akram Touil
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
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Bin Yan
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)
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Wojciech Zurek
- Los Alamos Natl Lab
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Weak Values without State Vectors
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Ken Wharton
- San Jose State University
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Ken Wharton
- San Jose State University
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Abhishek Roy
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The General Overfitter: Laws as Look-Ahead Contracts in Irreducible Physics
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Arbaaz Mahmood
- University of Essex
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Arbaaz Mahmood
- University of Essex
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Plasma-like description for quantum particles
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Publication: Akhmeteli, A. One real function instead of the Dirac spinor function. J. Math. Phys. 2011, 52, 082303.
Akhmeteli, A. No drama quantum electrodynamics? Eur. Phys. J. C 2013, 73, 2371.
Akhmeteli, A. Plasma-like Description for Elementary and Composite Quantum Particles. Entropy 2022, 24, 261.
Akhmeteli, A. Some Classical Models of Particles and Quantum Gauge Theories. Quantum Rep. 2022, 4(4), 486.
Akhmeteli, A. The Dirac equation as a linear tensor equation for one component. Eur. Phys. J. C 2024, 84:488.
Akhmeteli, A. A constructive approach to simulating quantum phenomena by plasma-like collections. arXiv:2503.10667.Presenters
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Andrey Akhmeteli
- LTASolid Inc.
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Andrey Akhmeteli
- LTASolid Inc.
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Quantitative and Optimal Device-Independent Lower Bounds on Detection Efficiency
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Arkaprabha Ghosal
- University of New Orleans
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Arkaprabha Ghosal
- University of New Orleans
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Soumyadip Patra
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Peter Bierhorst
- University of New Orleans
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