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A Misleading Naming Convention: De Sitter ‘Tachyonic’ Scalar Fields 一个误导性的命名约定：德西特“速子”标量场
IF 1.2 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2025-01-19 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-025-00821-w
Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Hamed Pejhan
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Interpretation of the Klein-Gordon Probability Density 克莱因-戈登概率密度的解释
IF 1.2 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2025-01-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-025-00820-x
Roderick I. Sutherland
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Critical Multi-Cubic Lattices: A Novel Implication Algebra for Infinite Systems of Qudit Gates 临界多立方格：无限量纲门系统的一种新的蕴涵代数
IF 1.2 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2024-12-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-024-00817-y
Morrison Turnansky
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引用次数: 0
A No-Go Theorem for (psi)-Ontic Models? Yes! Response to Criticisms (psi) -Ontic模型的不可行定理？是的！回应批评
IF 1.2 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2024-12-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-024-00816-z
Gabriele Carcassi, Andrea Oldofredi, Christine A. Aidala
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引用次数: 0
Quantum Mereology and Subsystems from the Spectrum 来自光谱的量子气象学和子系统
IF 1.2 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-024-00813-2
Nicolas Loizeau, Dries Sels
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Achronotopic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics 量子力学的时间异位解释
IF 1.2 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2024-12-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-024-00815-0
Silvia De Bianchi, István Szapudi
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What Is a Macrostate? Subjective Observations and Objective Dynamics 什么是宏观国家？主观观察与客观动态
IF 1.2 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2024-12-20 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-024-00814-1
Cosma Rohilla Shalizi, Cristopher Moore
{"title":"What Is a Macrostate? Subjective Observations and Objective Dynamics","authors":"Cosma Rohilla Shalizi,&nbsp;Cristopher Moore","doi":"10.1007/s10701-024-00814-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10701-024-00814-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We consider the question of whether thermodynamic macrostates are objective consequences of dynamics, or subjective reflections of our ignorance of a physical system. We argue that they are both; more specifically, that the set of macrostates forms the unique maximal partition of phase space which (1) is consistent with our observations (a subjective fact about our ability to observe the system) and (2) obeys a Markov process (an objective fact about the system’s dynamics). We review the ideas of computational mechanics, an information-theoretic method for finding optimal causal models of stochastic processes, and argue that macrostates coincide with the “causal states” of computational mechanics. Defining a set of macrostates thus consists of an inductive process where we start with a given set of observables, and then refine our partition of phase space until we reach a set of states which predict their own future, i.e. which are Markovian. Macrostates arrived at in this way are provably optimal statistical predictors of the future values of our observables.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":569,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Physics","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142859784","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 Alternatives to the Ideal Mathematical Points-Like Separatedness 论理想数学类点分离的几种选择
IF 1.2 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2024-12-06 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-024-00812-3
Bartosz Jura
{"title":"On the Alternatives to the Ideal Mathematical Points-Like Separatedness","authors":"Bartosz Jura","doi":"10.1007/s10701-024-00812-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10701-024-00812-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In a recent paper as an alternative to models based on the notion of ideal mathematical point, characterized by a property of separatedness, we considered a viewpoint based on the notion of continuous change, making use of elements of a non-classical logic, in particular the fuzzy sets theory, with events represented as spatiotemporally blurred blobs. Here we point out and discuss a number of aspects of this imperfect symbolic description that might potentially be misleading. Besides that, we analyze its relation to various concepts used commonly to model physical systems, denoted by terms like: point, set, continuous, discrete, infinite, or local, clarifying further how our viewpoint is different and asking whether, in light of our main postulate, any of these notions, or their opposites, if exist, are in their usual meanings suitable to accurately describe the natural phenomena.\u0000</p></div>","PeriodicalId":569,"journal":{"name":"Foundations of Physics","volume":"55 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142798346","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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Some Remarks on Recent Approaches to Torsionful Non-relativistic Gravity 关于扭转非相对论引力最新研究方法的一些评论
IF 1.2 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-024-00801-6
Eleanor March, James Read, Nicholas J. Teh, William J. Wolf
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Relational Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads 处于十字路口的关系量子力学
IF 1.2 3区 物理与天体物理
Foundations of Physics Pub Date : 2024-11-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10701-024-00810-5
Claudio Calosi, Timotheus Riedel
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