
The Minimal Modal Interpretation of Quantum Theory
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David Kagan University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Jacob Barandes Harvard University
Quantum foundations concerns the conceptual and mathematical underpinnings of quantum theory. In particular, we search for novel quantum effects, consider how to interpret the formalism, ask where the formalism comes from, and how we might modify it. Research at Perimeter Institute is particularly concerned with reconstructing quantum theory from more natural postulates and reformulating the theory in ways that elucidate its conceptual structure. Research in the foundations of quantum theory naturally interfaces with research in quantum information and quantum gravity.
David Kagan University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Jacob Barandes Harvard University
Aharon Brodutch Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
Barbara Terhal Delft University of Technology
Katja Ried Universität Innsbruck
Louis Kauffman University of Illinois at Chicago
David Huse Princeton University
Robert Furber Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Xiaotong Ni Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute (AEI)
Matthew Pusey University of York
Robert Spekkens Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics