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Entanglement without Quantum Mechanics: Operational Constraints on the Quantum Signature
Samuel Schlegel, Borivoje Dakić, Flavio Del Santo
Quantum entanglement is defined as nonseparability of density operators, yet experimental phase-space statistics alone cannot distinguish classical from quantum sources, so classic…
Naturalistic intuitionism for physics
Bruno Bentzen, Flavio Del Santo, Nicolas Gisin
Recently, a novel intuitionistic reconstruction of the foundations of physics has been primarily developed by Nicolas Gisin and Flavio Del Santo drawing on naturalism. Our goal in…
Classification of joint quantum measurements based on entanglement cost of localization
Jef Pauwels, Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens, Flavio Del Santo +1
Despite their importance in quantum theory, joint quantum measurements remain poorly understood. An intriguing conceptual and practical question is whether joint quantum measuremen…
Iso-entangled bases and joint measurements
Flavio Del Santo, Jakub Czartowski, Karol Życzkowski +1
While entanglement between distant parties has been extensively studied, entangled measurements have received relatively little attention despite their significance in understandin…
Many Worlds are irrelevant for the problem of the arrow of time
Veronika Baumann, Flavio Del Santo
In a recent paper, S. Gao has claimed that, under the assumption that the initial state of the universe is a pure quantum state, only the many worlds interpretation can account for…
The relativity of indeterminacy
Flavio Del Santo, Nicolas Gisin
A long-standing tradition, largely present in both the physical and the philosophical literature, regards the advent of (special) relativity -- with its block-universe picture -- a…
Probing quantum coherence at a distance and Aharonov-Bohm non-locality
Sebastian Horvat, Philippe Allard Guerin, Luca Apadula +1
In a standard interferometry experiment, one measures the phase difference between two paths by recombining the two wave packets on a beam-splitter. However, it has been recently r…
An Unpublished Debate Brought to Light: Karl Popper's Enterprise against the Logic of Quantum Mechanics
Flavio Del Santo
Karl Popper published, in 1968, a paper that allegedly found a flaw in a very influential article of Birkhoff and von Neumann, which pioneered the field of "quantum logic". Neverth…
Comment on Healey's "Quantum Theory and the Limits of Objectivity"
Veronika Baumann, Flavio Del Santo, Caslav Brukner
In this comment we critically review an argument against the existence of objective physical outcomes, recently proposed by R. Healey [Foundations of Physics, 48(11), 1568-1589]. W…
Karl Popper's Forgotten Role in the Quantum Debate at the Edge between Philosophy and Physics in 1950s and 1960s
Flavio Del Santo
It is not very well known that the philosopher Karl Popper has been one of the foremost critics of the orthodox interpretation of quantum physics for about six decades. This paper…
Striving for Realism, not for Determinism: Historical Misconceptions on Einstein and Bohm
Flavio Del Santo
In this paper I show that, while Einstein and Bohm both pursued a deterministic description of quantum mechanics, their philosophical concern was in fact primarily realism and not…
Demolishing prejudices to get to the foundations: a criterion of demarcation for fundamentality
Flavio Del Santo, Chiara Cardelli
In this paper, we reject commonly accepted views on fundamentality in science, either based on bottom-up construction or top-down reduction to isolate the alleged fundamental entit…