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most citedGoverning Without A Fundamental Direction of Time: Minimal Primitivism about Laws of Nature

68 citations · 386 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

quant-ph2026

The Distribution Postulate in Algorithmic Bohmian Mechanics

Jeffrey A. Barrett, Eddy Keming Chen, Josiah Lopez-Wild

In order to make the right empirical predictions Bohmian mechanics requires a special statistical boundary condition -- the distribution postulate -- but it is unclear how best to…

quant-ph2024

Typical Quantum States of the Universe are Observationally Indistinguishable

Eddy Keming Chen, Roderich Tumulka

We establish three impossibility results regarding our knowledge of the quantum state of the universe. Suppose the universal quantum state is a typical unit vector in a high-dimens…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

The Decoherent Arrow of Time and the Entanglement Past Hypothesis

Jim Al-Khalili, Eddy Keming Chen

If an asymmetry in time does not arise from the fundamental dynamical laws of physics, it may be found in special boundary conditions. The argument normally goes that since thermod…

quant-ph2024

Density Matrix Realism

Eddy Keming Chen

Realism about quantum theory naturally leads to realism about the quantum state of the universe. It leaves open whether it is a pure state represented by a wave function, or an imp…

physics.hist-ph2023

Laws of Physics

Eddy Keming Chen

Despite its apparent complexity, our world seems to be governed by simple laws of physics. This volume provides a philosophical introduction to such laws. I explain how they are co…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Decoherence, Branching, and the Born Rule in a Mixed-State Everettian Multiverse

Eugene Y. S. Chua, Eddy Keming Chen

In Everettian quantum mechanics, justifications for the Born rule appeal to self-locating uncertainty or decision theory. Such justifications have focused exclusively on a pure-sta…