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Nomic Structure and Reduction
Sean Gryb, Karim P. Y. Thébault
The canonical formulation of physical theories with irregular nomic structure is as constrained Hamiltonian theories within which ill-posedness of the equations of motion is connec…
How to engineer a quantum wavefunction
Peter W. Evans, Dominik Hangleiter, Karim P. Y. Thébault
In a conventional experiment, scientists typically aim to learn about target systems by manipulating source systems of the same material type. In an analogue quantum simulation, by…
What can bouncing oil droplets tell us about quantum mechanics?
Peter W. Evans, Karim P. Y. Thèbault
A recent series of experiments have demonstrated that a classical fluid mechanical system, constituted by an oil droplet bouncing on a vibrating fluid surface, can be induced to di…
On the Universality of Hawking Radiation
Sean Gryb, Patricia Palacios, Karim Thébault
A physically consistent semi-classical treatment of black holes requires universality arguments to deal with the `trans-Planckian' problem where quantum spacetime effects appear to…
On the Empirical Consequences of the AdS/CFT Duality
Radin Dardashti, Richard Dawid, Sean Gryb +1
We provide an analysis of the empirical consequences of the AdS/CFT duality with reference to the application of the duality in a fundamental theory, effective theory and instrumen…
Bouncing Unitary Cosmology II: Mini-Superspace Phenomenology
Sean Gryb, Karim P. Y. Thébault
A companion paper provides a proposal for cosmic singularity resolution based upon general features of a bouncing unitary cosmological model in the mini-superspace approximation. T…
Bouncing Unitary Cosmology I: Mini-Superspace General Solution
Sean Gryb, Karim P. Y. Thébault
We offer a new proposal for cosmic singularity resolution based upon a quantum cosmology with a unitary bounce. This proposal is illustrated via a novel quantization of a mini-supe…
Superpositions of the cosmological constant allow for singularity resolution and unitary evolution in quantum cosmology
Sean Gryb, Karim P. Y. Thébault
A novel approach to quantization is shown to allow for superpositions of the cosmological constant in isotropic and homogeneous mini-superspace models. Generic solutions featuring…
Analogue Quantum Simulation: A Philosophical Prospectus
Dominik Hangleiter, Jacques Carolan, Karim Thébault
This paper provides the first systematic philosophical analysis of an increasingly important part of modern scientific practice: analogue quantum simulation. We introduce the disti…
-Epistemic Quantum Cosmology?
Peter W. Evans, Sean Gryb, Karim P. Y. Thébault
This paper provides a prospectus for a new way of thinking about the wavefunction of the universe: a -epistemic quantum cosmology. We present a proposal that, if successfully im…
Hawking Radiation and Analogue Experiments: A Bayesian Analysis
Radin Dardashti, Stephan Hartmann, Karim P. Y. Thébault +1
We present a Bayesian analysis of the epistemology of analogue experiments with particular reference to Hawking radiation. First, we prove that such experiments can be confirmatory…