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Confusing Ontic and Epistemic Causes Trouble in Classical Physics Too
N. David Mermin - Cornell University
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The Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its Relation to Probability Theory
Leslie Ballentine - Simon Fraser University (SFU)
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The reflection principle and quantum Bayesian decoherence
Ruediger Schack - University of London
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Ontology of the quantum state: wavefunction vs. spacetime state realism
Christopher Timpson - University of Oxford
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What de Broglie--Bohm Mechanics tells us about the Nature of the Quantum State
Howard Wiseman - Griffith University
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Does knowing my lambda mean knowing my psi?
Terry Rudolph - Imperial College London
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What are the costs of dealing with "states of reality" in quantum theory?
Časlav Brukner - Austrian Academy of Sciences
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A Pilot Wave(s) Theory of Exclusively Local Beables
Travis Norsen - Emerson College
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Reconciling the ontic and epistemic views in quantum contextuality
Brian La Cour - The University of Texas at Austin
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Texas-Bavarian Home Cooking: A Quantum Bayesian Reply to Bell's (and Norsen's) la Nouvelle Cuisine
Chris Fuchs - University of Massachusetts Boston
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Bohmian Quantum Cosmology
Nelson Pinto-Neto - Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
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Topics in dynamical wave function collapse
Philip Pearle - Hamilton College
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Confusing Ontic and Epistemic Causes Trouble in Classical Physics Too
N. David Mermin - Cornell University
The subject of this conference is the Quantum State --- what the hell it is. A central issue is whether quantum states describe reality (the ontic view) or an agent's knowledge of reality (the epistemic view). Advocates of the epistemic view maintain that many quantum puzzles and conundra are… -
The Statistical Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics and its Relation to Probability Theory
Leslie Ballentine - Simon Fraser University (SFU)
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The reflection principle and quantum Bayesian decoherence
Ruediger Schack - University of London
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Ontology of the quantum state: wavefunction vs. spacetime state realism
Christopher Timpson - University of Oxford
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What de Broglie--Bohm Mechanics tells us about the Nature of the Quantum State
Howard Wiseman - Griffith University
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Does knowing my lambda mean knowing my psi?
Terry Rudolph - Imperial College London
All known hidden variable theories that completely reproduce all quantum predictions share the feature that they add some information to the quantum state "psi". That is, if one knew the "state of reality" given by the hidden variable(s) "lambda", then one could infer the quantum state - the hidden… -
What are the costs of dealing with "states of reality" in quantum theory?
Časlav Brukner - Austrian Academy of Sciences
Bell and experimental tests of his inequality showed that it is impossible to explain all of the predictions of quantum mechanics using a theory which satisfies the basic concepts of locality and realism, but which (if not both) is violated is still an open question. As it seems impossible to… -
A Pilot Wave(s) Theory of Exclusively Local Beables
Travis Norsen - Emerson College
After reframing the question of the status of the quantum state in terms of J.S. Bell's "beables", I will sketch out a new theory which -- though nonlocal in the sense required by Bell's theorem -- posits exclusively local beables. This is a theory, in particular, in which the quantum mechanical… -
Reconciling the ontic and epistemic views in quantum contextuality
Brian La Cour - The University of Texas at Austin
The classic debate between Einstein and Bohr over a realistic interpretation of quantum mechanics can be cast in terms of the measurement problem: Is there an underlying ontic state prior to measurement which maps deterministically to the measured outcome? According to the Kochen-Specker theorem… -
Texas-Bavarian Home Cooking: A Quantum Bayesian Reply to Bell's (and Norsen's) la Nouvelle Cuisine
Chris Fuchs - University of Massachusetts Boston
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Bohmian Quantum Cosmology
Nelson Pinto-Neto - Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
Quantum cosmology is the arena where the interpretations of quantum mechanics are pushed to their limits. For instance, the Copenhaguen interpretation cannot even be applied to this framework. With this in mind, I will describe the main results which emerge from the application of the Bohm-de… -
Topics in dynamical wave function collapse
Philip Pearle - Hamilton College
It will be shown how the CSL (continuous spontaneous localization) dynamical collapse equations work. A mathematically equivalent, non-collapse, Hamiltonian formulation will be described, with interpretative differences between it and CSL briefly discussed. A random field engenders collapse in CSL…