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Intersubjective Agreement about Measurement Outcomes is Unnecessary in QBism QBism测量结果的主体间一致是不必要的
IF 1.1 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2026-08-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-026-00947-5
Gino Elia, Jennifer Carter, Robert Crease
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Correction: What Price Fiber Bundle Substantivalism? On How to Avoid Holes in Fibers 纠正：什么价格纤维束实体性？如何避免光纤穿洞
IF 1.1 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2026-08-12 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-026-00943-9
P. Berghofer, J. François, L. Ravera
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The Geometric Representability Problem in Quantum Histories 量子历史中的几何可表征性问题
IF 1.1 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2026-08-10 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-026-00945-7
Douglas F. Watson
{"title":"The Geometric Representability Problem in Quantum Histories","authors":"Douglas F. Watson","doi":"10.1007/s10701-026-00945-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10701-026-00945-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Decoherence explains why selected quantum histories behave as mutually exclusive alternatives with Born weights, but it does not by itself show that such alternatives are worlds. We formulate this as a geometric representability problem within decoherent histories. A world-bearing branch must support a local physical representation: a compatible spectral and local structure sufficient for spacetime-like observables, stable records, and observer-level description. For a history effect <span>(F_alpha =K_alpha ^dagger K_alpha )</span> and a positive spectral probe <span>(A)</span>, we introduce the branch-resolved heat trace <span>(Theta _alpha (t)={text {Tr}}(e^{-tA/2}F_alpha e^{-tA/2}))</span>. Its small-time behavior tests the spectral supply carried by that branch. We prove that identical decoherence data can be realized by branches with inequivalent heat profiles, and that exact decoherent refinement can decompose a spectrally thick branch into probability-bearing but spectrally thin branches. A positive lower-bound theorem then shows that genuine branch-local spectral regularity forces corresponding heat-trace growth. Decoherence remains essential for probabilities, but branch ontology requires structural admissibility beyond decoherence.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":569,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Physics","volume":"56 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148751214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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On the Emergence of the Lorentzian Metric Structure of Space-Time in General Relativity 论广义相对论中时空洛伦兹度规结构的出现
IF 1.1 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2026-08-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-026-00944-8
Gábor Etesi
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Quantum Interference and the Limits of Separability 量子干涉与可分性极限
IF 1.1 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-31 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-026-00938-6
Sebastian Horvat
{"title":"Quantum Interference and the Limits of Separability","authors":"Sebastian Horvat","doi":"10.1007/s10701-026-00938-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10701-026-00938-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Quantum theory implies, and empirical evidence confirms, that while particles <i>can</i> exhibit wave-like behavior in interferometric experiments, this behavior is so limited as <i>not</i> to allow for third- and higher-order interference. The article at hand shows that this possibility-impossibility structure suggests the universal validity of a principle that regulates statistical correlations between spatiotemporally localized events, <i>independently</i> of the nature of the objects that may or may not partake in these events. Roughly, and up to some qualifications, the said principle mandates that <i>any</i> joint influence of <i>m</i> mutually spacelike separated events on <i>another</i> event, be such, that it can be separated by <i>at least</i> <span>(lceil frac{m}{2} rceil)</span> mediating events, and in some cases, by <i>no more</i> than <span>(lceil frac{m}{2} rceil)</span> mediating events. The structure of quantum interference thus teaches us that events can influence each other in a non-separable fashion, but that this non-separability has a certain exactly quantifiable limit. </p></div>","PeriodicalId":569,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Physics","volume":"56 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10701-026-00938-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148615100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Stochastic Electric Dipole Oscillator in a Nonuniform, Static Electric Field, used to Derive the Classical Electromagnetic Zero-point Radiation Spectrum 非均匀静电场中的随机电偶极子振荡器，用于推导经典电磁零点辐射谱
IF 1.1 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-026-00942-w
Daniel C. Cole
{"title":"Stochastic Electric Dipole Oscillator in a Nonuniform, Static Electric Field, used to Derive the Classical Electromagnetic Zero-point Radiation Spectrum","authors":"Daniel C. Cole","doi":"10.1007/s10701-026-00942-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10701-026-00942-w","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The behavior of an electric dipole simple harmonic oscillator is analyzed where the oscillator is located within a nonuniform, static electric field. This system is used to derive the classical electromagnetic zero-point (ZP) radiation spectrum, which is the cornerstone for the classical physics based theory of nature called stochastic electrodynamics. It is shown that a key property of ZP radiation is that it has the only spectrum that results in no heat flow under reversible, isothermal thermodynamic processes. The article considers incident random classical electromagnetic radiation at temperature <i>T</i> acting on the oscillator, resulting in the oscillator undergoing a stochastic fluctuating motion. The incident radiation is assumed to have Fourier modes that are independent random variables with a Gaussian probability distribution. The oscillator is made to undergo an infinitely slow displacement in the nonuniform, static electric field, which here is provided by a point charge held nearby. In a resonant approximation, no heat is found to be radiated into all space, but only if the spectrum of the incident radiation is that of classical electromagnetic ZP radiation, or radiation at temperature <span>(T=0)</span>. This result is found without counting the sum of the dipole radiation plus the cross term of the dipole-incident radiation. However, without making this resonant approximation, these two terms do need to be included and a stronger condition is found, with no heat radiated into all space for all frequencies if ZP radiation is present.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":569,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Physics","volume":"56 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148614222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Informational Observer in Relational Quantum Mechanics 关系量子力学中的信息观察者
IF 1.1 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-026-00939-5
Bethany Terris
{"title":"The Informational Observer in Relational Quantum Mechanics","authors":"Bethany Terris","doi":"10.1007/s10701-026-00939-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10701-026-00939-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Relational Quantum Mechanics (RQM) treats quantum states as observer-dependent facts rather than absolute properties. While this relational stance is conceptually attractive, it raises concerns about empirical confirmation, particularly in multi-observer scenarios. Existing responses within RQM focus on securing agreement between observers by strengthening the status, stability, or accessibility of recorded outcomes. However, they leave open a more basic question: what grounds the persistence of an observer across time? Scientific observation presupposes stable records and the capacity to relate outcomes across successive measurements. We argue that the minimal definition of the observer in RQM as a merely interacting physical system is insufficient to support this requirement. We propose a complementary account of the observer that distinguishes physical interaction from informational coherence, and show how this distinction supports empirical confirmation in Wigner’s friend–type scenarios.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":569,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Physics","volume":"56 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148466311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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What Price Fiber Bundle Substantivalism? On How to Avoid Holes in Fibers 什么价格纤维束实体性？如何避免光纤穿洞
IF 1.1 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-15 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-026-00941-x
P. Berghofer, J. François, L. Ravera
{"title":"What Price Fiber Bundle Substantivalism? On How to Avoid Holes in Fibers","authors":"P. Berghofer,&nbsp;J. François,&nbsp;L. Ravera","doi":"10.1007/s10701-026-00941-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10701-026-00941-x","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>On a mathematically foundational level, our most successful physical theories (gauge field theories and general-relativistic theories) are formulated in a framework based on the differential geometry of connections on principal bundles. After reviewing the essentials of this framework, we articulate the generalized hole and point-coincidence arguments, examining how they weight on a substantivalist position towards bundle spaces. This question, then, is considered in light of the Dressing Field Method, which allows a manifestly invariant reformulation of gauge field theories and general-relativistic theories, making their conceptual structure more transparent: it formally implements the point-coincidence argument and thus allows to define (dressed) fields and (dressed) bundle spaces immune to hole-type arguments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":569,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Physics","volume":"56 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10701-026-00941-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148466310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Non-relativistic Twistor Theory: Newtonian Limits and Gravitationally Induced Collapse 非相对论扭曲理论：牛顿极限和引力诱导坍缩
IF 1.1 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2026-07-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-026-00940-y
Eleanor March, James Read
{"title":"Non-relativistic Twistor Theory: Newtonian Limits and Gravitationally Induced Collapse","authors":"Eleanor March,&nbsp;James Read","doi":"10.1007/s10701-026-00940-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10701-026-00940-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recently, Dunajski and Gundry (Commun. Math. Phys., <b>342</b>(3), 2016) have developed a version of twistor theory for the non-relativistic domain. Unlike relativistic twistor theory, their approach is able to reproduce the entire space of models of Newton–Cartan theory. We critically assess the significance of non-relativistic twistors, in particular with respect to proposals by Dunajski and Penrose (Ann. Phys., <b>451</b>, 2023) that using non-relativistic twistors to describe gravitationally induced collapse could play a part in solving the quantum measurement problem.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":569,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Physics","volume":"56 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10701-026-00940-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148465712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Perspectivism and Quantum Mechanics 透视主义和量子力学
IF 1.1 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2026-06-22 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-026-00937-7
Philipp Berghofer, Mahdi Khalili
{"title":"Perspectivism and Quantum Mechanics","authors":"Philipp Berghofer,&nbsp;Mahdi Khalili","doi":"10.1007/s10701-026-00937-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10701-026-00937-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This special issue brings perspectivism, as a recent development in the philosophy of science, into contact with non-objectivist interpretations of quantum mechanics. By “objectivist interpretations,” broadly understood, we mean interpretations that seek to eliminate operational notions such as “measurement” from the fundamental postulates of the theory and insist that quantum mechanics, like classical mechanics, yields a purely objective, third-person description of how reality evolves in time. The guiding hypothesis, exemplified in several contributions to this issue, is that quantum mechanics supports perspectivist approaches to science, and that perspectivism can serve as a suitable philosophical-conceptual framework for certain interpretations of quantum mechanics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":569,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Physics","volume":"56 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2026-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148323294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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