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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Wentaculus: Density Matrix Realism Meets the Arrow of Time
Eddy Keming Chen
Two of the most difficult problems in the foundations of physics are (1) what gives rise to the arrow of time and (2) what the ontology of quantum mechanics is. They are difficult…