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The nature of time and motion in relativistic operational reality
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
We argue that the construction of spacetime is personal, specific to each observer, and requires combining aspects of both discovery and creation. What is usually referred to as th…
Quantum entanglement partly demystified
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
We consider a simple string model to explain and partly demystify the phenomenon of quantum entanglement. The model in question has nothing to do with string theory: it uses macros…
Are Bell-tests only about local incompatibility?
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
The view exists that Bell-tests would only be about local incompatibility of quantum observables and that quantum non-locality would be an unnecessary concept in physics. In this n…
When Bertlmann wears no socks. Common causes induced by measurements as an explanation for quantum correlations
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
It is well known that correlations produced by common causes in the past cannot violate Bell's inequalities. This was emphasized by Bell in his celebrated example of Bertlmann's so…
Violation of the Bell-CHSH inequality and marginal laws in a single-entity Bell-test experiment
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
We describe a simple experimental setting where joint measurements performed on a single (classical or quantum) entity can violate both the Bell-CHSH inequality and the marginal la…
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…
Modeling Meaning Associated with Documental Entities: Introducing the Brussels Quantum Approach
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Sandro Sozzo +1
We show that the Brussels operational-realistic approach to quantum physics and quantum cognition offers a fundamental strategy for modeling the meaning associated with collections…
Heisenberg uncertainty principle and the strange physics of spaghetti
Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
This is an article written in a popular science style, in which I will explain: (1) the famous Heisenberg uncertainty principle, expressing the experimental incompatibility of cert…
On Aerts' overlooked solution to the EPR paradox
Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox was enunciated in 1935 and since then it has made a lot of ink flow. Being a subtle result, it has also been largely misunderstood. Indeed…
Quantum cognition goes beyond-quantum: modeling the collective participant in psychological measurements
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Sandro Sozzo +1
In psychological measurements, two levels should be distinguished: the 'individual level', relative to the different participants in a given cognitive situation, and the 'collectiv…
On the quantum "self-teleportation" probability of a human body
Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
The probability of quantum relocation of a human body, at a given distance, is estimated using two different methods, giving comparable results. Not only the obtained values for th…
The Extended Bloch Representation of Quantum Mechanics for Infinite-Dimensional Entities
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
We show that the extended Bloch representation of quantum mechanics also applies to infinite-dimensional entities, to the extent that the number of (possibly infinitely degenerate)…
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…
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…
The extended Bloch Representation of Entanglement and Measurement in Quantum Mechanics
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Sandro Sozzo
The quantum formalism can be completed by assuming that a density operator can also represent a pure state. An 'extended Bloch representation' (EBR) then results, in which not only…
Testing Quantum Models of Conjunction Fallacy on the World Wide Web
Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran +4
The 'conjunction fallacy' has been extensively debated by scholars in cognitive science and, in recent times, the discussion has been enriched by the proposal of modeling the falla…
Quantum cognition beyond Hilbert space II: Applications
Diederik Aerts, Lyneth Beltran, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi +2
The research on human cognition has recently benefited from the use of the mathematical formalism of quantum theory in Hilbert space. However, cognitive situations exist which indi…
Quantum Cognition Beyond Hilbert Space I: Fundamentals
Diederik Aerts, Lyneth Beltran, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi +2
The formalism of quantum theory in Hilbert space has been applied with success to the modeling and explanation of several cognitive phenomena, whereas traditional cognitive approac…
Quantum measurements as weighted symmetry breaking processes: the hidden measurement perspective
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
The purpose of the present note is twofold. Firstly, we highlight the similarities between the ontologies of Kastner's possibilist transactional interpretation (PTI) of quantum mec…
On the Foundations of the Brussels Operational-Realistic Approach to Cognition
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Sandro Sozzo
The scientific community is becoming more and more interested in the research that applies the mathematical formalism of quantum theory to model human decision-making. In this pape…
The GTR-model: a universal framework for quantum-like measurements
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
We present a very general geometrico-dynamical description of physical or more abstract entities, called the 'general tension-reduction' (GTR) model, where not only states, but als…
Beyond-Quantum Modeling of Question Order Effects and Response Replicability in Psychological Measurements
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
A general tension-reduction (GTR) model was recently considered to derive quantum probabilities as (universal) averages over all possible forms of non-uniform fluctuations, and exp…
The Extended Bloch Representation of Quantum Mechanics. Explaining Superposition, Interference and Entanglement
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
The extended Bloch representation of quantum mechanics was recently derived to offer a (hidden-measurement) solution to the measurement problem. In this article we use it to invest…
A possible solution to the second entanglement paradox
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi
Entangled states are in conflict with a general physical principle which expresses that a composite entity exists if and only if its components also exist, and the hypothesis that…