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20152025
most citedTowards a Quantum World Wide Web

36 citations · 152 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Identifying Quantum Structure in AI Language: Evidence for Evolutionary Convergence of Human and Artificial Cognition

Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +4

We present the results of cognitive tests on conceptual combinations, performed using specific Large Language Models (LLMs) as test subjects. In the first test, performed with Chat…

q-bio.NC2024

Identifying Quantum Mechanical Statistics in Italian Corpora

Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +2

We present a theoretical and empirical investigation of the statistical behaviour of the words in a text produced by human language. To this aim, we analyse the word distribution o…

quant-ph2024

The Separability Problem in Quantum Mechanics: Insights from Research on Axiomatics and Human Language

Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +2

Einstein's article on the EPR paradox is the most cited of his works, but not many know that it was not fully representative of the way he thought about the incompleteness of the q…

q-bio.NC2024★ 1 cited

The Origin of Quantum Mechanical Statistics: Some Insights from the Research on Human Language

Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguēlles, Lester Beltran +2

Identical systems, or entities, are indistinguishable in quantum mechanics (QM), and the symmetrization postulate rules the possible statistical distributions of a large number of…

q-bio.NC2023★ 7 cited

Entanglement as a Method to Reduce Uncertainty

Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Argëlles, Lester Beltran +2

In physics, entanglement 'reduces' the entropy of an entity, because the (von Neumann) entropy of, e.g., a composite bipartite entity in a pure entangled state is systematically lo…

q-bio.NC2022

Development of a Thermodynamics of Human Cognition and Human Culture

Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +1

Inspired by foundational studies in classical and quantum physics, and by information retrieval studies in quantum information theory, we prove that the notions of 'energy' and 'en…

q-bio.NC2022★ 14 cited

A Planck Radiation and Quantization Scheme for Human Cognition and Language

Diederik Aerts, Lester Beltran

As a result of the identification of 'identity' and 'indistinguishability' and strong experimental evidence for the presence of the associated Bose-Einstein statistics in human cog…

q-bio.NC2021★ 21 cited

Are Words the Quanta of Human Language? Extending the Domain of Quantum Cognition

Diederik Aerts, Lester Beltran

In previous research, we showed that 'texts that tell a story' exhibit a statistical structure that is not Maxwell-Boltzmann but Bose-Einstein. Our explanation is that this is due…

q-bio.NC2021

Quantum Bose-Einstein Statistics for Indistinguishable Concepts in Human Language

Lester Beltran

We investigate the hypothesis that within a combination of a 'number concept' plus a 'substantive concept', such as 'eleven animals,' the identity and indistinguishability present…

q-bio.NC2021★ 3 cited

Entanglement in Cognition violating Bell Inequalities Beyond Cirel'son's Bound

Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +2

We present the results of two tests where a sample of human participants were asked to make judgements about the conceptual combinations {\it The Animal Acts} and {\it The Animal e…

q-bio.NC2019★ 1 cited

Quantum Structure in Cognition: Human Language as a Boson Gas of Entangled Words

Diederik Aerts, Lester Beltran

We model a piece of text of human language telling a story by means of the quantum structure describing a Bose gas in a state close to a Bose-Einstein condensate near absolute zero…

cs.CL2019★ 8 cited

Quantum-theoretic Modeling in Computer Science A complex Hilbert space model for entangled concepts in corpuses of documents

Diederik Aerts, Lester Beltran, Suzette Geriente +1

We work out a quantum-theoretic model in complex Hilbert space of a recently performed test on co-occurrencies of two concepts and their combination in retrieval processes on speci…

q-bio.NC2018★ 3 cited

Quantum Theory Methods as a Possible Alternative for the Double-Blind Gold Standard of Evidence-Based Medicine: Outlining a New Research Program

Diederik Aerts, Lester Beltran, Suzette Geriente +4

We motivate the possibility of using notions and methods derived from quantum physics, and more specifically from the research field known as 'quantum cognition', to optimally mode…

cs.AI2018

Quantum Entanglement in Corpuses of Documents

Lester Beltran, Suzette Geriente

We show that data collected from corpuses of documents violate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt version of Bell's inequality (CHSH inequality) and therefore indicate the presence of…

q-bio.NC2017★ 26 cited

Spin and Wind Directions II: A Bell State Quantum Model

Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +4

In the first half of this two-part article, we analyzed a cognitive psychology experiment where participants were asked to select pairs of directions that they considered to be the…

cs.AI2017★ 36 cited

Towards a Quantum World Wide Web

Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguelles, Lester Beltran +5

We elaborate a quantum model for the meaning associated with corpora of written documents, like the pages forming the World Wide Web. To that end, we are guided by how physicists c…

cs.AI2016★ 8 cited

Context and Interference Effects in the Combinations of Natural Concepts

Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +4

The mathematical formalism of quantum theory exhibits significant effectiveness when applied to cognitive phenomena that have resisted traditional (set theoretical) modeling. Relyi…

q-bio.NC2015★ 23 cited

Spin and Wind Directions I: Identifying Entanglement in Nature and Cognition

Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +4

We present a cognitive psychology experiment where participants were asked to select pairs of spatial directions that they considered to be the best example of 'Two Different Wind…