A Tale of Two Anachronisms
EmQM15 – Two-electron system correlated by the zero-point field: physical explanation for the spin-statistics connection
EmQM15 – Multipath Interference Tests of Quantum Mechanics
Dr. Gerhard Grössing is Co-Founder and Director of the Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies (AINS) in Vienna, Austria. He studied physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna and at Iowa State University, USA. During his post-doctoral work at Vienna’s Atominstitut, he coined the term and developed, together with Anton Zeilinger, the first “Quantum Cellular Automata”, and he developed an early variant of an “emergent” quantum theory named “Quantum Cybernetics” whose main results were published as a monograph with Springer Verlag, New York. His major research interests cover the foundations of quantum theory and new tools in complex systems research. Apart from his scientific work per se, he has a continued interest in the fields of philosophy and foundations of science, where he also published numerous articles and two books. In recent years, the research of Gerhard Grössing and the AINS has focused on the development of an “Emergent Quantum Mechanics”. He has organized at the University of Vienna the first international conference exclusively devoted to this promising and rapidly developing field, whose contributions are collected in a volume published by the Institute of Physics
EmQM15 – Free Will Theorems in Nonlocal Information Transfer without Nonlocal Communication
EmQM15 – Is the World Local or Nonlocal? – Towards an Emergent Quantum Mechanics 80 Years after EPR
EmQM15 – Ontology of the wave function
The main research of Lev Vaidman is in the fields of Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information. Most of his works belong to theoretical physics, but he also performs some experimental work in quantum optics and writes philosophical papers on the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. His main contributions are variants of quantum measurements: interaction-free measurements (the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb problem), protective measurements, weak measurements (the Aharonov-Albert-Vaidman Effect), non-local measurements (which led to discovery of teleportation of continuous variables). In the area of Quantum Information he invented a secret key distribution with quantum particles in orthogonal states (the Goldenberg-Vaidman protocol), quantum gambling, and practically secure bit commitment. The main tool of his research is the analysis of paradoxes such as the 3-box paradox, the paradox of a photon being at a place through which it cannot pass and more. The Paradoxes help him achieve the goal of deeper understanding of locality and randomness in Nature. (source: Tel Aviv University)
EmQM15 – Ensembles of Bohmian trajectories: Real, Surreal, and Hyper-real