3 papers
physics.hist-ph2026
Selling the Stock, Not the Cream: The Soviet Ãmigré Career Premium of the 1990s
Vitaly Pronskikh
In the early-mid 1990s, scientists emigrating from the former Soviet Union to the United States -- especially physicists, engineers, chemists, and biologists -- frequently secured…
quant-ph2026
Operationally induced preferred basis in unitary quantum mechanics
Vitaly Pronskikh
The preferred-basis problem and the definite-outcome aspect of the measurement problem persist even when the detector is modeled unitarily. Experimental data are represented in a B…
physics.hist-ph2025
Two Shades of Quark Color: Parallel Canons across the Cold War Divide
Vitaly Pronskikh
The introduction of the color quantum number is conventionally narrated as a linear progression from the quark-model statistics paradox to quantum chromodynamics (QCD). This paper…