QISS Papers

Probing Hilbert space fragmentation and the block Inverse Participation Ratio

Philipp Frey, David Mikhail, Stephan Rachel, Lucas Hackl
University of Melbourne

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What Does ‘(Non)-Absoluteness of Observed Events’ Mean?

Emily Adlam
UWO London

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General gravitational charges on null hypersurfaces

Gloria Odak, Antoine Rignon-Bret, Simone Speziale
CPT Marseille

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Null Raychaudhuri: Canonical Structure and the Dressing Time

Luca Ciambelli, Laurent Freidel, Robert G. Leigh
Perimeter Institute

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A trace inequality for Euclidean gravitational path integrals (and a new positive action conjecture)

Eugenia Colafranceschi, Donald Marolf, Zhencheng Wang
UCSB

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Global Synthesis of CNOT Circuits with Holes

Ewan Murphy, Aleks Kissinger
Oxford Computer Science

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Matter relative to quantum hypersurfaces

Philipp A. Hoehn, Andrea Russo, Alexander R. H. Smith
OIST

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Predictive Modelling of Quantum Process with Neural Networks

Yan Zhu, Ya-Dong Wu, Qiushi Liu, Yuexuan Wang, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

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Sequence Processing with Quantum Tensor Networks

Carys Harvey, Richie Yeung, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis
Quantinuum

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A clarification on prevailing misconceptions in unimodular gravity

Gabriel R. Bengochea, Gabriel Leon, Alejandro Perez, Daniel Sudarsky
CPT Marseille

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Commuting operations factorise

Renato Renner, Ramona Wolf
ETH Zürich

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Quantum mechanics with real numbers: entanglement, superselection rules and gauges

Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

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Experimental property-reconstruction in a photonic quantum extreme learning machine

Alessia Suprano, Danilo Zia, Luca Innocenti, Salvatore Lorenzo, Valeria Cimini, Taira Giordani, Ivan Palmisano, Emanuele Polino, Nicolò Spagnolo, Fabio Sciarrino, G. Massimo Palma, Alessandro Ferraro, Mauro Paternostro
QILab Rome

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Generation and characterization of polarization-entangled states using quantum dot single-photon sources

Mauro Valeri, Paolo Barigelli, Beatrice Polacchi, Giovanni Rodari, Gianluca De Santis, Taira Giordani, Gonzalo Carvacho, Nicolò Spagnolo, Fabio Sciarrino
QILab Rome

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Painlevé-Gullstrand coordinates discontinuity in the quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder model

Francesco Fazzini, Carlo Rovelli, Farshid Soltani
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

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Light-cone thermodynamics: purification of the Minkowski vacuum

Alejandro Perez, Salvatore Ribisi
CPT Marseille

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The debate over QKD: A rebuttal to the NSA’s objections

Renato Renner, Ramona Wolf
ETH Zürich

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Obstructions to Compositionality

Caterina Puca, Amar Hadzihasanovic, Fabrizio Genovese, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

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The Generative Programs Framework

Mordecai Waegell, Kelvin J. McQueen, Emily C. Adlam
UWO London

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Discreteness Unravels the Black Hole Information Puzzle: Insights from a Quantum Gravity Toy Model

Alejandro Perez, Sami Viollet
CPT Marseille

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Local Inaccessibility of Random Classical Information : Conditional Nonlocality demands Entanglement

Subhendu B. Ghosh, Snehasish Roy Chowdhury, Tathagata Gupta, Anandamay Das Bhowmik, Sutapa Saha, Some Sankar Bhattacharya, Tamal Guha
QICI Hong Kong

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A no-go theorem for absolute observed events without inequalities or modal logic

Nick Ormrod, Jonathan Barrett
Oxford Computer Science

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Which theories have a measurement problem?

Nick Ormrod, V. Vilasini, Jonathan Barrett
Oxford Computer Science

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Quantum-Enhanced Learning of Continuous-Variable Quantum States

Ya-Dong Wu, Giulio Chiribella, Nana Liu
QICI Hong Kong

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Causal structure in the presence of sectorial constraints, with application to the quantum switch

Nick Ormrod, Augustin Vanrietvelde, Jonathan Barrett
Paris-Saclay, Oxford Computer Science

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Quantum Causal Inference with Extremely Light Touch

Xiangjing Liu, Yixian Qiu, Oscar Dahlsten, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

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Graphical CSS Code Transformation Using ZX Calculus

Jiaxin Huang, Sarah Meng Li, Lia Yeh, Aleks Kissinger, Michele Mosca, Michael Vasmer
Oxford Computer Science

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Nonclassicality in correlations without causal order

Ravi Kunjwal, Ognyan Oreshkov
Université Libre Bruxelles

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Matrix Mechanics Mis-Prized: Max Born’s Belated Nobelization

John L. Heilbron, Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

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Relational interpretation of quantum mechanics and Alexander Bogdanov’s worldview

Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

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Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics

Eric G. Cavalcanti, Rafael Chaves, Flaminia Giacomini, Yeong-Cherng Liang
ETH Zürich

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Temporal witnesses of non-classicality in a macroscopic biological system

Giuseppe Di Pietra, Vlatko Vedral, Chiara Marletto
Oxford Physics Department

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A toy model provably featuring an arrow of time without past hypothesis

Pablo Arrighi, Gilles Dowek, Amélia Durbec
Paris-Saclay

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Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics

Eric G. Cavalcanti, Rafael Chaves, Flaminia Giacomini & Yeong-Cherng Liang
ETH Zürich

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Disappearing Without a Trace: The Arrows of Time in Kent’s Solution to the Lorentzian Quantum Reality Problem

Emily Adlam
UWO London

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Linear Ultrastrong Optomechanical Interaction

Kahan Dare, Jannek J. Hansen, Iurie Coroli, Aisling Johnson, Markus Aspelmeyer, Uroš Delić
IQOQI Vienna

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Observers in superposition and the no-signaling principle

Veronika Baumann, Caslav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

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Paradox with Phase-Coupled Interferometers

Saba Etezad-Razavi, Lucien Hardy
Perimeter Institute

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Relational superposition measurements with a material quantum ruler

Hui Wang, Flaminia Giacomini, Franco Nori, Miles P. Blencowe
ETH Zürich

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Average Pure-State Entanglement Entropy in Spin 1/2 Systems with SU(2) Symmetry

Rohit Patil, Lucas Hackl, Marcos Rigol
University of Melbourne

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Royal Holloway, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – Vienna & The Centre de Physique Théorique – UMR 7332 – CNRS and Aix-Marseille Université and Université de Toulon & The University of Western Ontario and Rotman Institute for Philosophy & Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics &Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Vienna

Andrea Di Biagio, Richard Howl, Časlav Brukner, Carlo Rovelli, Marios Christodoulou
, UWO London,

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Incompleteness Theorems for Observables in General Relativity

Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos, George Sparling, Marios Christodoulou

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On the consistency of relative facts

Eric G. Cavalcanti, Andrea Di Biagio, Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

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Probing spectral features of quantum many-body systems with quantum simulators

Jinzhao Sun, Lucia Vilchez-Estevez, Vlatko Vedral, Andrew T. Boothroyd, M. S. Kim
Oxford Physics Department

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Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?

Chris Smeenk, James Owen Weatherall
UWO London

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The principle of a finite density of information

Pablo Arrighi, Gilles Dowek
Paris-Saclay

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A resource theory of activity for quantum thermodynamics in the absence of heat baths

Swati, Uttam Singh, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

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Picturing counting reductions with the ZH-calculus

Tuomas Laakkonen, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, John van de Wetering
Quantinuum

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Probes, purviews, purgatories, parable, paradox?

Josh Kirklin
OIST

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Gravitationally-induced entanglement in cold atoms

Richard Howl, Nathan Cooper, Lucia Hackermüller
Royal Holloway

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Experimental super-Heisenberg quantum metrology with indefinite gate order

Peng Yin, Xiaobin Zhao, Yuxiang Yang, Yu Guo, Wen-Hao Zhang, Gong-Chu Li, Yong-Jian Han, Bi-Heng Liu, Jin-Shi Xu, Giulio Chiribella, Geng Chen, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo
QICI Hong Kong

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On the Inevitable Lightness of Vacuum

Laurent Freidel, Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman, Robert G. Leigh, Djordje Minic
Perimeter Institute

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The Temporal Asymmetry of Influence is Not Statistical

Emily Adlam
UWO London

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On the analogies between gravitational and electromagnetic radiative energy

Henrique Gomes, Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

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The Topology of Causality

Stefano Gogioso, Nicola Pinzani
Université Libre Bruxelles

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The Geometry of Causality

Stefano Gogioso, Nicola Pinzani
Université Libre Bruxelles

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Classification of causally complete spaces on 3 events with binary inputs

Stefano Gogioso, Nicola Pinzani
Université Libre Bruxelles

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Are Entropy Bounds Epistemic?

Emily Adlam
UWO London

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Complete Graphical Language for Hermiticity-Preserving Superoperators

Titouan Carette, Timothée Hoffreumon, Émile Larroque, Renaud Vilmart
Université Libre Bruxelles

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Graph subshifts

Pablo Arrighi, Amélia Durbec, Pierre Guillon
Paris-Saclay

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The Everything-is-a-Quantum-Wave Interpretation of Quantum Physics

Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

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What Is In a Survey? Simulation-Induced Selection Effects in Astronomy

Sarah C. Gallagher, Chris Smeenk
UWO London

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On the geometry of the black-to-white hole transition within a single asymptotic region

Muxin Han, Carlo Rovelli, Farshid Soltani
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

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Completeness for arbitrary finite dimensions of ZXW-calculus, a unifying calculus

Boldizsár Poór, Quanlong Wang, Razin A. Shaikh, Lia Yeh, Richie Yeung, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

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Distilling Text into Circuits

Vincent Wang-Mascianica, Jonathon Liu, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

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Basic ZX-calculus for students and professionals

Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

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Hybrid nonlocality via atom photon interactions with and without impurities

Pritam Halder, Ratul Banerjee, Saptarshi Roy, Aditi Sen De
QICI Hong Kong

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Indeterminism and Bell nonlocality with classical systems

Lorenzo Giannelli, Carlo Maria Scandolo, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

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Unextendible product bases from orthogonality graphs

Fei Shi, Ge Bai, Xiande Zhang, Qi Zhao, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

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Geometry Transition in Spinfoams

Marios Christodoulou, Fabio D’Ambrosio, Charalampos Theofilis
IQOQI Vienna

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Quantum Reference Frames at the Boundary of Spacetime

Viktoria Kabel, Časlav Brukner, Wolfgang Wieland
IQOQI Vienna

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Loop Quantum Gravity and Quantum Information

Eugenio Bianchi, Etera R. Livine
IGC at Penn State

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Entanglement, causality and quantum networks

Emanuele Polino and Fabio Sciarrino
QILab Rome

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Emergence of Riemannian Quantum Geometry

Hal M. Haggard, Jerzy Lewandowski, Hanno Sahlmann
Bard College

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Quantum mechanics and Alexander Bogdanov’s worldview: A conversation

Carlo Rovelli, Michael C. Jackson
CPT Marseille,

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Summing bulk quantum numbers with Monte Carlo in spin foam theories

Pietro Dona, Pietropaolo Frisoni
UWO London

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Any consistent coupling between classical gravity and quantum matter is fundamentally irreversible

Thomas D. Galley, Flaminia Giacomini, John H. Selby
ETH Zürich

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Modelling quantum particles falling into a black hole: the deep interior limit

Alejandro Perez, Salvatore Ribisi, Sami Viollet
CPT Marseille

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Do We Have Any Viable Solution to the Measurement Problem?

Emily Adlam
UWO London

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Spinfoams and high performance computing

Pietro Dona, Muxin Han, Hongguang Liu
UWO London

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Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives on the Cosmological Constant

Adam Koberinski, Bridget Falck, Chris Smeenk
UWO London

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How to sum and exponentiate Hamiltonians in ZXW calculus

Razin A. Shaikh, Quanlong Wang, Richie Yeung
Quantinuum

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Quantum diffeomorphisms cannot make indefinite causal order definite

Anne-Catherine de la Hamette, Viktoria Kabel, Marios Christodoulou, Časlav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

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Philosophical Foundations of Loop Quantum Gravity

Carlo Rovelli, Francesca Vidotto
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute, UWO London

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Cosmological constraints on unimodular gravity models with diffusion

Susana J. Landau, Micol Benetti, Alejandro Perez, Daniel Sudarsky
CPT Marseille

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Geometry from local flatness in Lorentzian spin foam theories

Pietro Dona
UWO London

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Constructive Axiomatics in Spacetime Physics Part II: Constructive Axiomatics in Context

Emily Adlam, Niels Linnemann, James Read
UWO London

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How causation is rooted into thermodynamics

Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

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Experimental superposition of time directions

Teodor Strömberg, Peter Schiansky, Marco Túlio Quintino, Michael Antesberger, Lee Rozema, Iris Agresti, Časlav Brukner, Philip Walther
IQOQI Vienna

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On the Role of Fiducial Structures in Minisuperspace Reduction and Quantum Fluctuations in LQC

Fabio M. Mele, Johannes Münch
OIST, CPT Marseille

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Witnessing the non-objectivity of an unknown quantum dynamics

Davide Poderini, Giovanni Rodari, George Moreno, Emanuele Polino, Ranieri Nery, Alessia Suprano, Cristhiano Duarte, Fabio Sciarrino, Rafael Chaves
QILab Rome

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Quantum Euler angles and agency-dependent spacetime

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Vittorio D’Esposito, Giuseppe Fabiano, Domenico Frattulillo, Philipp A. Hoehn, Flavio Mercati
OIST

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Unpredictability is perfectly possible in a deterministic universe

Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

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Experimental demonstration of input-output indefiniteness in a single quantum device

Yu Guo, Zixuan Liu, Hao Tang, Xiao-Min Hu, Bi-Heng Liu, Yun-Feng Huang, Chuan-Feng Li, Guang-Can Guo, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

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Witnessing superpositions of causal orders by weak measurements at a given time

Onur Pusuluk, Zafer Gedik, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

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Addressable quantum gates

Pablo Arrighi, Christopher Cedzich, Marin Costes, Ulysse Rémond, Benoît Valiron
Paris-Saclay

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Wigner’s friend and relational objectivity

Caslav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

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Inference of gravitational field superposition from quantum measurements

Chris Overstreet, Joseph Curti, Minjeong Kim, Peter Asenbaum, Mark A. Kasevich, Flaminia Giacomini
ETH Zürich

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Measuring incompatibility and clustering quantum observables with a quantum switch

Ning Gao, Dantong Li, Anchit Mishra, Junchen Yan, Kyrylo Simonov, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

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Quantum States of Fields for Quantum Split Sources

Lin-Qing Chen, Flaminia Giacomini, Carlo Rovelli
ETH Zürich, CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute, Université Libre Bruxelles

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Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for graph refinement in Spinfoam Cosmology

Pietropaolo Frisoni, Francesco Gozzini, Francesca Vidotto
UWO London

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Diffuse emission from black hole remnants

Sina Kazemian, Mateo Pascual, Carlo Rovelli, Francesca Vidotto
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute, UWO London

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Existence of processes violating causal inequalities on time-delocalised subsystems

Julian Wechs, Cyril Branciard, Ognyan Oreshkov
Université Libre Bruxelles

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Gravitational time dilation as a resource in quantum sensing

Carlo Cepollaro, Flaminia Giacomini, Matteo G. A. Paris
IQOQI Vienna, Perimeter Institute

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Does Science need Intersubjectivity? The Problem of Confirmation in Orthodox Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics

Emily Adlam
UWO London

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Locally mediated entanglement through gravity from first principles

Marios Christodoulou, Andrea Di Biagio, Markus Aspelmeyer, Časlav Brukner, Carlo Rovelli, Richard Howl
, CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute, Royal Holloway

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Quantum communication through devices in an indefinite input-output direction

Zixuan Liu, Ming Yang, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

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Generic features of a polymer quantum black hole

Johannes Münch, Alejandro Perez, Simone Speziale, Sami Viollet
CPT Marseille

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Wald-Zoupas prescription with (soft) anomalies

Gloria Odak, Antoine Rignon-Bret, Simone Speziale
CPT Marseille

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Experimental nonclassicality in a causal network without assuming freedom of choice

Emanuele Polino, Davide Poderini, Giovanni Rodari, Iris Agresti, Alessia Suprano, Gonzalo Carvacho, Elie Wolfe, Askery Canabarro, George Moreno, Giorgio Milani, Robert W. Spekkens, Rafael Chaves, Fabio Sciarrino
QILab Rome

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Time, space and matter in the primordial universe

Francesca Vidotto
UWO London

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Metriplectic geometry for gravitational subsystems

Viktoria Kabel, Wolfgang Wieland
IQOQI Vienna

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Radiative corrections to the Lorentzian EPRL spin foam propagator

Pietro Donà, Pietropaolo Frisoni, Edward Wilson-Ewing
UWO London

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Tabletop Experiments for Quantum Gravity Are Also Tests of the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Emily Adlam
UWO London

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The nonequilibrium cost of accurate information processing

Giulio Chiribella, Fei Meng, Renato Renner, Man-Hong Yung
QICI Hong Kong

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Watching the Clocks: Interpreting the Page-Wootters Formalism and the Internal Quantum Reference Frame Programme

Emily Adlam
UWO London

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