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A Case Study of a Scientific Blunder. History and Philosophical Teachings
Pascal Lederer
In 1988, in cooperation with a team of experimental physicists, a Condensed Matter theorist, X, published in Physical Review Letters a crucial experimental result dealing with a re…
Nancy Cartwright and the Logic of Quantum Mechanics
Pascal Lederer
This paper deals with Nancy Cartwright's views on the measurement problem in Quantum Mechanics, as exposed in her book {\it{How the Laws of Physics Lie}}. She does not accept the l…
The battle of High Temperature Superconductivity
Pascal Lederer
The early development of conflicting theories about the microscopic mechanism of High Temperature Superconductivity is described. The biographical roots of this diversity are stres…
The Quantum Hall Effects: Philosophical Approach
Pascal Lederer
The Quantum Hall Effects offer a rich variety of theoretical and experimental advances. They provide interesting insights on such topics as complementarity, gauge invariance, stron…
Gauge Symmetry, Spontaneous Breaking of Gauge Symmetry: Philosophical Approach
Pascal Lederer
This paper deals with the Berry phase, and the ontology of the electromagnetic vector potential. When the state of the system is gauge symmetric, the vector potential may be interp…
Impurity scattering in strongly correlated metals close to the Mott transition
Pascal Lederer, Marcelo J. Rozenberg
This work explores a simple approximation to describe isolated impurity scattering in a strongly correlated metal. The approximation combines conventional one electron scattering t…