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Local Many Worlds in Spacetime: Deutsch-Hayden Descriptors and Local Wavefunctions
Mordecai Waegell
Bell's theorem establishes that a local and spatially separable physical theory with no superdeterminism or retrocausality must be a theory of many local worlds. The local many wor…
On measurement, superdeterminism, free will, and contextuality
Mordecai Waegell
Superdeterminism has received recent attention as a possible path toward a locally causal explanation of the entanglement correlations that appear in experimental tests of Bell's t…
Nonlocal action in Everettian Quantum Mechanics
Mordecai Waegell, Kelvin J. McQueen
According to a common view, Everettian quantum mechanics (EQM) is a local theory because it avoids nonlocal action at a distance, and this is an important point in EQM's favor. Unl…
Is Bohmian mechanics missing some motion? Why a recent experiment is inconclusive
Mordecai Waegell
A recent experiment raises a supposed challenge to Bohmian mechanics, claiming to observe stationary states, which should have zero Bohm velocity, while indirectly measuring a nonz…
Agency cannot be a purely quantum phenomenon
Emily C. Adlam, Kelvin J. McQueen, Mordecai Waegell
What are the physical requirements for agency? We investigate whether a purely quantum system (one evolving unitarily in a coherent regime without decoherence or collapse) can sati…
From statistical dependence to the space of possible superdeterministic theories
Mordecai Waegell, Kelvin J. McQueen
Bell's theorem demonstrates that any physical theory that is consistent with the predictions of quantum mechanics, and which satisfies some apparently innocuous assumptions, must v…
Madelung Mechanics and Superoscillations
Mordecai Waegell
In single-particle Madelung mechanics, the single-particle quantum state is interpreted as comprising an entire conserved flui…
Separating a particle's mass from its momentum
Mordecai Waegell, Jeff Tollaksen, Yakir Aharonov
The Quantum Cheshire Cat experiment showed that when weak measurements are performed on pre- and post-selected system, the counterintuitive result has been obtained that a neutron…
Toward Local Madelung Mechanics in Spacetime
Mordecai Waegell
It has recently been shown that relativistic quantum theory leads to a local interpretation of quantum mechanics wherein the universal wavefunction in configuration space is entire…
The Generative Programs Framework
Mordecai Waegell, Kelvin J. McQueen, Emily C. Adlam
Recently there has been significant interest in using causal modelling techniques to understand the structure of physical theories. However, the notion of `causation' is limiting -…
Generation of Kochen-Specker contextual sets in higher dimensions by dimensional upscaling whose complexity does not scale with dimension and their applications
Mladen Pavicic, Mordecai Waegell
Recently, handling of contextual sets, in particular Kochen-Specker (KS) sets, in higher dimensions has been given an increasing attention, both theoretically and experimentally. H…
The Golay codes and Quantum Contextuality
Mordecai Waegell, P. K. Aravind
It is shown that the codewords of the binary and ternary Golay codes can be converted into rays in RP(23) and RP(11) that provide proofs of the Kochen-Specker theorem in real state…
Quantum reality with negative-mass particles
Mordecai Waegell, Eliahu Cohen, Avshalom Elitzur +2
Physical interpretations of the time-symmetric formulation of quantum mechanics, due to Aharonov, Bergmann, and Lebowitz are discussed in terms of weak values. The most direct, yet…
Local Quantum Theory with Fluids in Space-Time
Mordecai Waegell
In 1948, Schwinger developed a local Lorentz covariant formulation of relativistic quantum electrodynamics in space-time which is fundamentally inconsistent with any delocalized in…
Aharonov-Bohm effect with an effective complex-valued vector potential
Ismael L. Paiva, Yakir Aharonov, Jeff Tollaksen +1
The interaction between a quantum charge and a dynamic source of a magnetic field is considered in the Aharonov-Bohm scenario. It is shown that, in weak interactions with a post-se…
Reformulating Bell's Theorem: The Search for a Truly Local Quantum Theory
Mordecai Waegell, Kelvin J. McQueen
The apparent nonlocality of quantum theory has been a persistent concern. Einstein et. al. (1935) and Bell (1964) emphasized the apparent nonlocality arising from entanglement corr…
Magnetic forces in the absence of a classical magnetic field
Ismael L. Paiva, Yakir Aharonov, Jeff Tollaksen +1
It is shown that, in some cases, the effect of discrete distributions of flux lines in quantum mechanics can be associated with the effect of continuous distributions of magnetic f…
Energy-Based Weak Measurement
Mordecai Waegell, Cyril Elouard, Andrew N. Jordan
When a well-localized photon is incident on a spatially superposed absorber but is not absorbed, the photon can still deliver energy to the absorber. It is shown that when the tran…
Nonlocal interferences induced by the phase of the wavefunction for a particle in a cavity with moving boundaries
Mordecai Waegell, Alex Matzkin
We investigate the dynamics of a particle in a confined periodic system---a time-dependent oscillator confined by infinitely high and moving walls---and focus on the evolution of t…
Automated generation of Kochen-Specker sets
Mladen Pavicic, Mordecai Waegell, Norman D. Megill +1
Quantum contextuality turns out to be a necessary resource for universal quantum computation and also has applications in quantum communication. Thus it becomes important to genera…
Topological bound states for quantum charges
Ismael L. Paiva, Yakir Aharonov, Jeff Tollaksen +1
We discuss how, in appropriately designed configurations, solenoids carrying a semifluxon can be used as topological energy barriers for charged quantum systems. We interpret this…
An Interaction-Free Quantum Measurement-Driven Engine
Cyril Elouard, Mordecai Waegell, Benjamin Huard +1
Recently highly-efficient quantum engines were devised by exploiting the stochastic energy changes induced by quantum measurement. Here we show that such an engine can be based on…
Benchmarks of Nonclassicality for Qubit Arrays
Mordecai Waegell, Justin Dressel
We present a set of practical benchmarks for -qubit arrays that economically test the fidelity of achieving multi-qubit nonclassicality. The benchmarks are measurable correlator…
The Weak Reality that Makes Quantum Phenomena more Natural: Novel Insights and Experiments
Yakir Aharonov, Eliahu Cohen, Mordecai Waegell +1
While quantum reality can be probed through measurements, the Two-State-Vector formalism (TSVF) reveals a subtler reality prevailing between measurements. Under special pre- and po…