QISS Papers

You can find the publications of the first phase of the QISS grant here.

Average entanglement entropy of a small subsystem in a constrained pure Gaussian state ensemble

Erik Aurell, Lucas Hackl, Mario Kieburg
University of Melbourne

Preprint: 2505.03696

Is Planckian discreteness observable in cosmology?

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

Preprint: 2405.12534
Journal: Universe 11 (2025) 139

Scientific thinking across the centuries and the foundations of physics

Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Journal: J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 2877 012084, .

Can Alice do science and have friends, in a relational quantum world? Solipsism and Relational Quantum Mechanics

Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2410.20012

Photonic Implementation of Quantum Gravity Simulator

Emanuele Polino, Beatrice Polacchi, Davide Poderini, Iris Agresti, Gonzalo Carvacho, Fabio Sciarrino, Andrea Di Biagio, Carlo Rovelli, Marios Christodoulou
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2207.01680
Journal: Advanced Photonics Nexus, Vol. 3, Issue 3, 036011 (May 2024)

Planck stars, White Holes, Remnants and Planck-mass quasi-particles. The quantum gravity phase in black holes’ evolution and its manifestations

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

Preprint: 2407.09584

Tunneling of quantum geometries in spinfoams

Pietro Dona, Hal M. Haggard, Carlo Rovelli, Francesca Vidotto
Bard College, CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2402.09038
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 109, 106016 (2024)

Diffuse emission from black hole remnants

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

Preprint: 2207.06978
Journal: Class. Quantum Grav. 40 087001

Quantum mechanics and Alexander Bogdanov’s worldview: A conversation

Carlo Rovelli, Michael C. Jackson
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Journal: Syst Res Behav Sci. (2023)

Fresh perspectives on the foundations of quantum physics

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

Journal: Nature Reviews Physics 5, 323–325 (2023).

O perigo da confirmação não-empírica

Carlo Rovelli
UWO London

Journal: Perspectivas 8 (2023) 282-295

Relational interpretation of quantum mechanics and Alexander Bogdanov’s worldview

Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Journal: Systems Research and Behavioral Science 40 (2023) 312

Entanglement, causality and quantum networks

Emanuele Polino and Fabio Sciarrino
QILab Rome

Journal: Europhysics News, 54 1 (2023) 28-31

The Temporal Asymmetry of Influence is Not Statistical

Emily Adlam
UWO London

Journal: Philosophy of Science

Wigner’s friend and relational objectivity

Caslav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

Journal: Nature Reviews Physics, Volume 4, Issue 10, p.628-630

The future of secure communications: device independence in quantum key distribution

Seyed Arash Ghoreishi, Giovanni Scala, Renato Renner, Letícia Lira Tacca, Jan Bouda, Stephen Patrick Walborn, Marcin Pawłowski
ETH Zürich

Preprint: 2504.06350

Black Hole Information From Non-vacuum Localised Quantum States

Ali Akil, Riccardo Falcone, Nicetu Tibau Vidal, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2504.17911

Detecting single gravitons with quantum sensing

Germain Tobar, Sreenath K. Manikandan, Thomas Beitel, Igor Pikovski
OIST

Preprint: 2308.15440
Journal: Nat. Commun. 15, 7229 (2024)

Differentiating and Integrating ZX Diagrams with Applications to Quantum Machine Learning

Quanlong Wang, Richie Yeung, Mark Koch
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2201.13250
Journal: Quantum 8, 1491 (2024)

Entanglement harvesting in quantum superposed spacetime

Anwesha Chakraborty, Lucas Hackl, Magdalena Zych
University of Melbourne

Preprint: 2412.15870

Quantum Gravity Signature in a Thermodynamic Observable

Thomas Strasser, Marios Christodoulou, Richard Howl, Caslav Brukner
Royal Holloway, IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2412.17460

Quantum networks with coherent routing of information through multiple nodes

Hlér Kristjánsson, Yan Zhong, Anthony Munson, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2208.00480
Journal: npj Quantum Inf 10, 131 (2024)

Boltzmann Bridges

Jordan Scharnhorst, David Wolpert, Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2407.02840

Covariance and symmetry algebras

Antoine Rignon-Bret, Simone Speziale
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2403.00730
Journal: EPL 149 (2025) 6, 69002

Matrix Mechanics of a Particle in a One-Dimensional Infinite Square Well

Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2403.09590

Dirac quantum walk on tetrahedra

Ugo Nzongani, Nathanaël Eon, Iván Márquez-Martín, Armando Pérez, Giuseppe Di Molfetta, Pablo Arrighi
Paris-Saclay

Preprint: 2404.09840
Journal: Phys. Rev. A, 110(4), 042418, (2024).

Trading causal order for locality

Ravi Kunjwal, Amin Baumeler
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2202.00440
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 120201 (2023)

A clarification on prevailing misconceptions in unimodular gravity

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

Preprint: 2308.07360
Journal: JCAP11(2023)011

Emergence of Riemannian Quantum Geometry

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

Preprint: 2302.02840
Journal: In Bambi, C., Modesto, L., Shapiro, I. (eds) Handbook of Quantum Gravity. Springer, Singapore (2023)

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

Nick Ormrod, Jonathan Barrett
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2209.03940

Discretizing parametrized systems: the magic of Ditt-invariance

Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 1107.2310
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 106, 104062

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

Preprint: 2208.06210
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 170201 (2023)

Addressable quantum gates

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

Preprint: 2109.08050
Journal: ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing

Unpredictability is perfectly possible in a deterministic universe

Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2210.09050

Making the quantum world accessible to young learners through Quantum Picturalism: An experimental study

Selma Dündar-Coecke, Caterina Puca, Lia Yeh, Muhammad Hamza Waseem, Emmanuel M. Pothos, Thomas Cervoni, Sieglinde M. -L. Pfaendler, Vincent Wang-Maścianica, Peter Sigrist, Ferdi Tomassini, Vincent Anandraj, Ilyas Khan, Stefano Gogioso, Aleks Kissinger, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2504.01013

Quantum generalisation of Einstein’s Equivalence Principle can be verified with entangled clocks as quantum reference frames

Carlo Cepollaro, Flaminia Giacomini
ETH Zürich

Preprint: 2112.03303
Journal: Class. Quantum Grav. 41 185009

Linking Edge Modes and Geometrical Clocks in Linearized Gravity

Kristina Giesel, Viktoria Kabel, Wolfgang Wieland
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2410.17339

Non-abelian symmetry-resolved entanglement entropy

Eugenio Bianchi, Pietro Dona, Rishabh Kumar
CPT Marseille, IGC at Penn State

Preprint: 2405.00597
Journal: SciPost Phys. 17, 127 (2024)

The sum of entanglement and subsystem coherence is invariant under quantum reference frame transformations

Carlo Cepollaro, Ali Akil, Paweł Cieśliński, Anne-Catherine de la Hamette, Časlav Brukner
QICI Hong Kong, IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2406.19448

Quantum Picturalism: Learning Quantum Theory in High School

Selma Dündar-Coecke, Lia Yeh, Caterina Puca, Sieglinde M. -L. Pfaendler, Muhammad Hamza Waseem, Thomas Cervoni, Aleks Kissinger, Stefano Gogioso, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2312.03653
Journal: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2023, pp. 21-32

Quantum Galilei group as quantum reference frame transformations

Angel Ballesteros, Diego Fernandez-Silvestre, Flaminia Giacomini, Giulia Gubitosi
ETH Zürich

Preprint: 2504.00569

Locality Implies Complex Numbers in Quantum Mechanics

Tianfeng Feng, Changliang Ren, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2504.07808

An Exactly Soluble Group Field Theory

Luca Marchetti, Hassan Mehmood, Viqar Husain
OIST

Preprint: 2412.09851

Soft edges: the many links between soft and edge modes

Goncalo Araujo-Regado, Philipp A. Hoehn, Francesco Sartini, Bilyana Tomova
OIST

Preprint: 2412.14548

$text{T}overline{text{T}}$ deformations from AdS$_2$ to dS$_2$

Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez, Andrew Svesko, Manus R. Visser
OIST

Preprint: 2410.18257
Journal: JHEP 01 120 (2025)

$T^2$ deformations in the double-scaled SYK model: Stretched horizon thermodynamics

Sergio E. Aguilar-Gutierrez
OIST

Preprint: 2410.18303

Relational Observables in Group Field Theory

Luca Marchetti, Edward Wilson-Ewing
OIST

Preprint: 2412.14622

Quantum Frame Relativity of Subsystems, Correlations and Thermodynamics

Philipp A. Hoehn, Isha Kotecha, Fabio M. Mele
OIST, UWO London

Preprint: 2308.09131

The Physical Relevance of the Fiducial Cell in Loop Quantum Cosmology

Fabio M. Mele, Johannes Münch
UWO London

Preprint: 2109.10663
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 108, 106004 (2023)

Why ETH? On thermalization and locality

Stefan Eccles
OIST

Preprint: 2502.04784

Uhlmann’s theorem for relative entropies

Giulia Mazzola, David Sutter, Renato Renner
ETH Zürich

Preprint: 2502.01749

Universality of stationary entanglement in an optomechanical system driven by non-Markovian noise and squeezed light

Su Direkci, Klemens Winkler, Corentin Gut, Markus Aspelmeyer, Yanbei Chen
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2502.02979

Characterizing stationary optomechanical entanglement in the presence of non-Markovian noise

Su Direkci, Klemens Winkler, Corentin Gut, Markus Aspelmeyer, Yanbei Chen
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2502.02838

Generalised Process Theories

John H. Selby, Maria E. Stasinou, Matt Wilson, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2502.10368

The classical limit of quantum mechanics through coarse-grained measurements

Fatemeh Bibak, Carlo Cepollaro, Nicolás Medina Sánchez, Borivoje Dakić, Časlav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2503.15642

No quantum advantage for violating fixed-order inequalities?

Veronika Baumann, Ämin Baumeler, Eleftherios-Ermis Tselentis
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2412.17551

Entanglement detection length of multipartite quantum states

Fei Shi, Lin Chen, Giulio Chiribella, Qi Zhao
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2401.03367
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 050201 (2025)

Observation of the quantum equivalence principle for matter-waves

Or Dobkowski, Barak Trok, Peter Skakunenko, Yonathan Japha, David Groswasser, Maxim Efremov, Chiara Marletto, Ivette Fuentes, Roger Penrose, Vlatko Vedral, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Ron Folman
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2502.14535

A Matter-Wave Quantum Superposition of Inertial and Constant Acceleration Motions

Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2502.16716

Collapse-based models for gravity do not violate the Entanglement-Based Witness of non-classicality

Tianfeng Feng, Vlatko Vedral, Chiara Marletto
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2503.19774

Crossed products and quantum reference frames: on the observer-dependence of gravitational entropy

Julian De Vuyst, Stefan Eccles, Philipp A. Hoehn, Josh Kirklin
OIST

Preprint: 2412.15502

Quantum Homogenization as a Quantum Steady State Protocol on NISQ Hardware

Alexander Yosifov, Aditya Iyer, Daniel Ebler, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2412.14544
Journal: Phys. Rev. A 109, 032624 (2024)

Learning Complex Word Embeddings in Classical and Quantum Spaces

Carys Harvey, Stephen Clark, Douglas Brown, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2412.13745

Modal division multiplexing of quantum and classical signals in few-mode fibers

Danilo Zia, Mario Zitelli, Gonzalo Carvacho, Nicolò Spagnolo, Fabio Sciarrino, Stefan Wabnitz
QILab Rome

Preprint: 2412.17578

Device-Independent Randomness Amplification

Anatoly Kulikov, Simon Storz, Josua D. Schär, Martin Sandfuchs, Ramona Wolf, Florence Berterottière, Christoph Hellings, Renato Renner, Andreas Wallraff
ETH Zürich

Preprint: 2412.17931

Characterizing Hybrid Causal Structures with the Exclusivity Graph Approach

Giovanni Rodari, Davide Poderini, Emanuele Polino, Alessia Suprano, Fabio Sciarrino, Rafael Chaves
QILab Rome

Preprint: 2401.00063

Quantum conformal symmetries for spacetimes in superposition

Viktoria Kabel, Anne-Catherine de la Hamette, Esteban Castro-Ruiz, Časlav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2207.00021
Journal: Quantum 8, 1547 (2024)

Finite complexity of the ER=EPR state in de Sitter

Suddhasattwa Brahma, Lucas Hackl, Moatsem Hassan, Xiancong Luo
University of Melbourne

Preprint: 2409.13932

Quantum networks theory

Pablo Arrighi, Amélia Durbec, Matt Wilson
Paris-Saclay

Preprint: 2110.10587
Journal: Quantum 8, 1508 (2024)

On the Role of Locality in the Bose-Marletto-Vedral Effect

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

Preprint: 2411.01285

A correspondence between quantum error correcting codes and quantum reference frames

Sylvain Carrozza, Aidan Chatwin-Davies, Philipp A. Hoehn, Fabio M. Mele
OIST, UWO London

Preprint: 2412.15317

Quantum Reference Frames on Homogeneous Spaces

Jan Głowacki
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2409.07231

Contraction of ZX diagrams with triangles via stabiliser decompositions

Mark Koch, Richie Yeung, Quanlong Wang
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2307.01803
Journal: Phys. Scr. 99 105122

Euclidean and complex geometries from real-time computations of gravitational Rényi entropies

Jesse Held, Xiaoyi Liu, Donald Marolf, Zhencheng Wang
UCSB

Preprint: 2409.17428
Journal: JHEP 02 136 (2025)

Quantum-information methods for quantum gravity laboratory-based tests

Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2410.07262
Journal: Rev.Mod.Phys. 97 None (2025)

Squeezed vacua and primordial features in effective theories of inflation at N2LO

Eugenio Bianchi, Mauricio Gamonal
IGC at Penn State

Preprint: 2410.11812

The Bose-Marletto-Vedral experiment with nanodiamond interferometers: an insight on entanglement detection

Giuseppe Di Pietra, Fabrizio Piacentini, Ettore Bernardi, Ekaterina Moreva, Carmine Napoli, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Marco Genovese, Vlatko Vedral, Chiara Marletto
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2410.19601

Generalizing Bell nonlocality without global causal assumptions

Ravi Kunjwal, Ognyan Oreshkov
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2411.11397

Quantum Gravity, Hydrodynamics and Emergent Cosmology: A Collection of Perspectives

Jibril Ben Achour, Dario Benedetti, Martin Bojowald, Robert Brandenberger, Salvatore Butera, Renata Ferrero, Flaminia Giacomini, Kristina Giesel, Christophe Goeller, Tobias Haas, Philipp A. Höhn, Joshua Kirklin, Luca Marchetti, Daniele Oriti, Roberto Percacci, Antonio D. Pereira, Andreas G. A. Pithis, Mairi Sakellariadou, Sebastian Steinhaus, Johannes Thürigen
ETH Zürich, Université Libre Bruxelles, OIST

Preprint: 2411.12628
Journal: Gen. Rel. Grav. 57, 2 (2025)

Linearization (in)stabilities and crossed products

Julian De Vuyst, Stefan Eccles, Philipp A. Hoehn, Josh Kirklin
OIST

Preprint: 2411.19931

Subsystem decompositions of quantum evolutions and transformations between causal perspectives

Julian Wechs, Ognyan Oreshkov
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2411.16504

Generalised second law beyond the semiclassical regime

Josh Kirklin
OIST

Preprint: 2412.01903

Planar Rotor in Matrix Mechanics and the Role of States in Quantum Physics

Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2406.15866

Quantum Null Geometry and Gravity

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

Preprint: 2407.11132
Journal: JHEP 12 028 (2024)

Why you do not need to worry about the standard argument that you are a Boltzmann brain

Carlo Rovelli, David Wolpert
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2407.13197

Experimental quantum-enhanced kernels on a photonic processor

Zhenghao Yin, Iris Agresti, Giovanni de Felice, Douglas Brown, Alexis Toumi, Ciro Pentangelo, Simone Piacentini, Andrea Crespi, Francesco Ceccarelli, Roberto Osellame, Bob Coecke, Philip Walther
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2407.20364

Quantum Algorithms for Compositional Text Processing

Tuomas Laakkonen, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2408.06061
Journal: EPTCS 406, 2024, pp. 162-196

Steady-state entanglement of interacting masses in free space through optimal feedback control

Klemens Winkler, Anton V. Zasedatelev, Benjamin A. Stickler, Uroš Delić, Andreas Deutschmann-Olek, Markus Aspelmeyer
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2408.07492

Nonequilibrium entanglement between levitated masses under optimal control

Alexander N. Poddubny, Klemens Winkler, Benjamin A. Stickler, Uroš Delić, Markus Aspelmeyer, Anton V. Zasedatelev
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2408.06251

Scalable and interpretable quantum natural language processing: an implementation on trapped ions

Tiffany Duneau, Saskia Bruhn, Gabriel Matos, Tuomas Laakkonen, Katerina Saiti, Anna Pearson, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2409.08777

The Operational Meaning of Total Energy of Isolated Systems in General Relativity

Abhay Ashtekar, Simone Speziale
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2409.06698
Journal: Universe-10-00367 (1) (2024)

Spectral decomposition of field operators and causal measurement in quantum field theory

Robert Oeckl
UNAM

Preprint: 2409.08748
Journal: J. Math. Phys. 66 (2025) 042302

Knot invariants and indefinite causal order

Samuel Fedida, Anne-Catherine de la Hamette, Viktoria Kabel, Časlav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2409.11448

Asymptotic Higher Spin Symmetries I: Covariant Wedge Algebra in Gravity

Nicolas Cresto, Laurent Freidel
Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2409.12178
Journal: Lett.Math.Phys. 115 39 (2025)

Representation theory of Gaussian unitary transformations for bosonic and fermionic systems

Tommaso Guaita, Lucas Hackl, Thomas Quella
University of Melbourne

Preprint: 2409.11628

Thermodynamics without Time

Francesca Vidotto
UWO London

Preprint: 2409.19098

Relational Dynamics with Periodic Clocks

Leonardo Chataignier, Philipp A. Hoehn, Maximilian P. E. Lock, Fabio M. Mele
UWO London, OIST

Preprint: 2409.06479

A typology of quantum algorithms

Pablo Arnault, Pablo Arrighi, Steven Herbert, Evi Kasnetsi, Tianyi Li
Paris-Saclay

Preprint: 2407.05178

Towards Relational Quantum Field Theory

Jan Głowacki
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2405.15455

Towards Compositional Interpretability for XAI

Sean Tull, Robin Lorenz, Stephen Clark, Ilyas Khan, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2406.17583

Indefinite Causal Structure and Causal Inequalities with Time-Symmetry

Luke Mrini, Lucien Hardy
Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2406.18489

A diagrammatic language for the Causaloid framework

Nitica Sakharwade, Lucien Hardy
Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2407.01522

General Communication Enhancement via the Quantum Switch

Zhen Wu, James Fullwood, Zhihao Ma, Siqi Zhou, Qi Zhao, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2407.02726
Journal: Phys. Rev. A 111, 012605 (2025)

Null Infinity and Horizons: A New Approach to Fluxes and Charges

Abhay Ashtekar, Simone Speziale
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2407.03254
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 110, 044049 (2024)

Princeton seminars on physics and philosophy

Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2407.01989

Hybrid Quantum-Classical Machine Learning with String Diagrams

Alexander Koziell-Pipe, Aleks Kissinger
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2407.03673

On the Carrollian Nature of the Light Front

Sucheta Majumdar
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2406.10353
Journal: International Journal of Modern Physics A

Wigner’s friend scenarios: on what to condition and how to verify the predictions

Flavio Del Santo, Gonzalo Manzano, Caslav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2407.06279

A time operator and the time-of-arrival problem in quantum field theory

Daniele Colosi, Robert Oeckl
UNAM

Preprint: 2407.08841

Particle-field duality in QFT measurements

Maria Papageorgiou, Jose de Ramon, Charis Anastopoulos
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2308.14718
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 109, 065024

Eliminating the impossible: Recent progress on local measurement theory for quantum field theory

Maria Papageorgiou, Doreen Fraser
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2307.08524
Journal: Found Phys 54, 26

Relational objectivity in presence of finite quantum resources

Luis C. Barbado, Časlav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2407.04391

What an event is not: unravelling the identity of events in quantum theory and gravity

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

Preprint: 2404.00159

ZX-calculus is Complete for Finite-Dimensional Hilbert Spaces

Boldizsár Poór, Razin A. Shaikh, Quanlong Wang
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2405.10896

Relativization is naturally functorial

Jan Głowacki
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2403.03755

On the definition of the spin charge in asymptotically-flat spacetimes

Laurent Freidel, Seyed Faroogh Moosavian, Daniele Pranzetti
Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2403.19547
Journal: Class. Quantum Grav. (2025) 42 015011

Catalysing Completeness and Universality

Aleks Kissinger, Neil J. Ross, John van de Wetering
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2404.09915

Channel-State duality with centers

Simon Langenscheidt, Daniele Oriti, Eugenia Colafranceschi
UWO London

Preprint: 2404.16004

Typical behaviour of genuine multimode entanglement of pure Gaussian states

Saptarshi Roy
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2404.17265

Gravitational entropy is observer-dependent

Julian De Vuyst, Stefan Eccles, Philipp A. Hoehn, Josh Kirklin
OIST

Preprint: 2405.00114

Semi-device independent characterization of multiphoton indistinguishability

Giovanni Rodari, Leonardo Novo, Riccardo Albiero, Alessia Suprano, Carlos T. Tavares, Eugenio Caruccio, Francesco Hoch, Taira Giordani, Gonzalo Carvacho, Marco Gardina, Niki Di Giano, Serena Di Giorgio, Giacomo Corrielli, Francesco Ceccarelli, Roberto Osellame, Nicolò Spagnolo, Ernesto F. Galvão, Fabio Sciarrino
QILab Rome

Preprint: 2404.18636

Primordial power spectrum at N3LO in effective theories of inflation

Eugenio Bianchi, Mauricio Gamonal
IGC at Penn State

Preprint: 2405.03157
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 110, 104032 (2024)

The communication power of a noisy qubit

Saptarshi Roy, Tamal Guha, Sutapa Saha, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2405.17946
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 080803 (2025)

Geometry of Carrollian Stretched Horizons

Laurent Freidel, Puttarak Jai-akson
Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2406.06709
Journal: Class.Quant.Grav. 42 None (2025)

Quantum effects in gravity beyond the Newton potential from a delocalised quantum source

Lin-Qing Chen, Flaminia Giacomini
ETH Zürich

Preprint: 2402.10288

Identification is Pointless: Quantum Reference Frames, Localisation of Events, and the Quantum Hole Argument

Viktoria Kabel, Anne-Catherine de la Hamette, Luca Apadula, Carlo Cepollaro, Henrique Gomes, Jeremy Butterfield, Časlav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2402.10267

Photonic cellular automaton simulation of relativistic quantum fields: observation of Zitterbewegung

Alessia Suprano, Danilo Zia, Emanuele Polino, Davide Poderini, Gonzalo Carvacho, Fabio Sciarrino, Matteo Lugli, Alessandro Bisio, Paolo Perinotti
QILab Rome

Preprint: 2402.07672
Journal: Phys. Rev. Research 6, 033136

Cosmological Dynamics from Covariant Loop Quantum Gravity with Scalar Matter

Muxin Han, Hongguang Liu, Dongxue Qu, Francesca Vidotto, Cong Zhang
UWO London

Preprint: 2402.07984
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 111 None (2025)

Quantum Circuit Optimization with AlphaTensor

Francisco J. R. Ruiz, Tuomas Laakkonen, Johannes Bausch, Matej Balog, Mohammadamin Barekatain, Francisco J. H. Heras, Alexander Novikov, Nathan Fitzpatrick, Bernardino Romera-Paredes, John van de Wetering, Alhussein Fawzi, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, Pushmeet Kohli
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2402.14396

Null Infinity as a Weakly Isolated Horizon

Abhay Ashtekar, Simone Speziale
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2402.17977
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 110, 044048 (2024)

Gravitationally Mediated Entanglement with Superpositions of Rotational Energies

Gerard Higgins, Andrea Di Biagio, Marios Christodoulou
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2403.02062
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 110 None (2024)

Tsirelson bounds for quantum correlations with indefinite causal order

Zixuan Liu, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2403.02749
Journal: Nat. Commun. 16, 3314 (2025)

On the Time Orientation of Probability

Andrea Di Biagio, Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute, IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2403.01062
Journal: Philosophy of Physics, 2(1), p. 16

Fast classical simulation of quantum circuits via parametric rewriting in the ZX-calculus

Matthew Sutcliffe, Aleks Kissinger
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2403.06777

A complete logic for causal consistency

Will Simmons, Aleks Kissinger
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2403.09297

A de Finetti theorem for quantum causal structures

Fabio Costa, Jonathan Barrett, Sally Shrapnel
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2403.10316
Journal: Quantum 9, 1628 (2025)

Local fraction in Static Causal Orders

Stefano Gogioso, Nicola Pinzani
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2403.15331

Information-theoretic derivation of energy and speed bounds

Lorenzo Giannelli, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2403.13223

Spinfoams, $gamma$-duality and parity violation in primordial gravitational waves

Eugenio Bianchi, Monica Rincon-Ramirez
IGC at Penn State

Preprint: 2403.06053

Causal Graph Dynamics and Kan Extensions

Identification of Causal Influences in Quantum Processes

Isaac Friend, Aleks Kissinger
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2311.08882
Journal: EPTCS 394, 2023, pp. 101-115

Random pure Gaussian states and Hawking radiation

Erik Aurell, Lucas Hackl, Paweł Horodecki, Robert H. Jonsson, Mario Kieburg
University of Melbourne

Preprint: 2311.10562
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 060202

Proceedings 19th International Conference on Quantum Physics and Logic

Stefano Gogioso, Matty Hoban
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2311.08375
Journal: EPTCS 394, 2023

A Pipeline For Discourse Circuits From CCG

Jonathon Liu, Razin A. Shaikh, Benjamin Rodatz, Richie Yeung, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2311.17892

Primordial fluctuations from quantum gravity: 16-cell topological model

Pietropaolo Frisoni, Francesco Gozzini, Francesca Vidotto
UWO London

Preprint: 2312.02399

Locality in the Schroedinger Picture of Quantum Mechanics

Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2312.04701
Journal: MDPI Physics 6 793 (2024)

On the tensorial structure of general covariant quantum systems

Gabriel M. Carral, Iñaki Garay, Francesca Vidotto
UWO London

Preprint: 2312.13374

Understanding the interplay of entanglement and nonlocality: motivating and developing a new branch of entanglement theory

D. Schmid, T.C. Fraser, R. Kunjwal, A. B. Sainz, E. Wolfe, and R. W. Spekkens
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2004.09194
Journal: Quantum 7, 1194 (2023)

Spacetime geometry from canonical spherical gravity

Asier Alonso-Bardaji, David Brizuela
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2310.12951
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 109 (2024) 4, 044065

Nonsingular collapse of a spherical dust cloud

Asier Alonso-Bardaji, David Brizuela
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2312.15505
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 109 (2024) 6, 064023

Completeness of qufinite ZXW calculus, a graphical language for mixed-dimensional quantum computing

Quanlong Wang, Boldizsár Poór
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2309.13014

Light-Matter Interaction in the ZXW Calculus

Giovanni de Felice, Razin A. Shaikh, Boldizsár Poór, Lia Yeh, Quanlong Wang, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2306.02114
Journal: EPTCS 384, 2023, pp. 20-46

Quantum networks boosted by entanglement with a control system

Tamal Guha, Saptarshi Roy, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2206.05247
Journal: Phys. Rev. Research 5, 033214

Device-independent certification of indefinite causal order in the quantum switch

Tein van der Lugt, Jonathan Barrett, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2208.00719
Journal: Nature Communications 14, 5811 (2023)

Quantum autoencoders for communication-efficient quantum cloud computing

Yan Zhu, Ge Bai, Yuexuan Wang, Tongyang Li, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2112.12369
Journal: Quantum Mach. Intell. 5, 27 (2023)

Hawking radiation for detectors in superposition of locations outside a black hole

Jerzy Paczos, Luis C. Barbado
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2308.15149
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 108 None (2023)

Observing ghost entanglement beyond scattering amplitudes in quantum electrodynamics

Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2308.02942

Quantum-enhanced screened dark energy detection

Daniel Hartley, Christian Käding, Richard Howl, Ivette Fuentes
Royal Holloway

Preprint: 1909.02272
Journal: EPJC-23-03-136

Measurement events relative to temporal quantum reference frames

Ladina Hausmann, Alexander Schmidhuber, Esteban Castro-Ruiz
Paris-Saclay

Preprint: 2308.10967
Journal: Quantum 9, 1616 (2025)

A relativistic discrete spacetime formulation of 3+1 QED

Nathanaël Eon, Giuseppe Di Molfetta, Giuseppe Magnifico, Pablo Arrighi
Paris-Saclay

Preprint: 2205.03148
Journal: Quantum 7, 1179 (2023)

Global Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates for Reissner-Nordström spacetime

Farshid Soltani
UWO London

Preprint: 2307.11026
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 108, 124002 (2023)

Bridging the neuroscience and physics of time

Dean Buonomano, Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2110.01976
Journal: Time and Science, Volume 2: Life Sciences, R. Lestienne and P. Harris eds., World Scientific 2023

Remote sensing of a levitated superconductor with a flux-tunable microwave cavity

Philip Schmidt, Remi Claessen, Gerard Higgings, Joachim Hofer, Jannek J. Hansen, Peter Asenbaum, Kevin Uhl, Reinhold Kleiner, Rudolf Gross, Hans Huebl, Michael Trupke, Markus Aspelmeyer
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2401.08854
Journal: Phys. Rev. Applied 22 (2024) 014078

Optimal compilation of parametrised quantum circuits

John van de Wetering, Richie Yeung, Tuomas Laakkonen, Aleks Kissinger
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2401.12877

Lessons from discrete light-cone quantization for physics at null infinity: Bosons in two dimensions

Glenn Barnich, Sucheta Majumdar, Simone Speziale, Wen-Di Tan
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2401.14873
Journal: JHEP 05 (2024) 326

Shadow simulation of quantum processes

Xuanqiang Zhao, Xin Wang, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2401.14934
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 120804 (2024)

Carrollian $Lw_{1+infty}$ representation from twistor space

Laura Donnay, Laurent Freidel, Yannick Herfray
Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2402.00688
Journal: SciPost Phys. 17 118 (2024)

Minimum Detection Efficiencies for Loophole-free Genuine Nonlocality Tests

Subhendu B. Ghosh, Snehasish Roy Chowdhury, Ranendu Adhikary, Arup Roy, Tamal Guha
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2401.16134
Journal: Phys. Rev. A 109, 052202 (2024)

Horizons and Null Infinity: A Fugue in 4 voices

Abhay Ashtekar, Simone Speziale
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2401.15618
Journal: Phys. Rev. D109, L061501 (2024)

Renormalization of conformal infinity as a stretched horizon

Laurent Freidel, Aldo Riello
Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2402.03097
Journal: 2024 Class. Quantum Grav. 41 175013

Interaction of evanescent particles with an Unruh-DeWitt detector

Daniele Colosi, Robert Oeckl, Adamantia Zampeli
UNAM

Preprint: 2310.06716
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 109 (2024) 025009, 27 pages

The thermodynamic cost of choosing

Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2309.08557
Journal: Foundations of Physics, Volume 54, Issue 3, id.28

Quantum Detection of Gravitationally Interacting Dark Matter

Alejandro Perez, Carlo Rovelli, Marios Christodoulou
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute, IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2309.08238
Journal: Phys.Rev.Lett. 133 (2024) 11, 111001

Macroscopic quantum entanglement between an optomechanical cavity and a continuous field in presence of non-Markovian noise

Su Direkci, Klemens Winkler, Corentin Gut, Klemens Hammerer, Markus Aspelmeyer, Yanbei Chen
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2309.12532
Journal: Phys. Rev. Research 6, 013175

Taxonomy for Physics Beyond Quantum Mechanics

Emily Adlam, Jonte R. Hance, Sabine Hossenfelder, Tim N. Palmer
UWO London

Preprint: 2309.12293
Journal: Proc.Roy.Soc.Lond.A 480 None (2024)

Gravity Mediated Entanglement between Oscillators as Quantum Superposition of Geometries

Ofek Bengyat, Andrea Di Biagio, Markus Aspelmeyer, Marios Christodoulou
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2309.16312
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 110 None (2024)

Comparing coherent and incoherent models for quantum homogenization

Anna Beever, Maria Violaris, Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2309.15741
Journal: Phys.Rev.A 110 None (2024)

Observable Thermalization: Theory, Numerical and Analytical Evidence

Lodovico Scarpa, Fabio Anza, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2309.15173

Algebras and Hilbert spaces from gravitational path integrals: Understanding Ryu-Takayanagi/HRT as entropy without invoking holography

Eugenia Colafranceschi, Xi Dong, Donald Marolf, Zhencheng Wang
UCSB

Preprint: 2310.02189
Journal: JHEP 10 None (2024)

Quantum Nonlocality: Multi-copy Resource Inter-convertibility & Their Asymptotic Inequivalence

Subhendu B. Ghosh, Snehasish Roy Chowdhury, Guruprasad Kar, Arup Roy, Tamal Guha, Manik Banik
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2310.16386
Journal: Phys.Rev.Lett. 132 None (2024)

Flexible Error Mitigation of Quantum Processes with Data Augmentation Empowered Neural Model

Manwen Liao, Yan Zhu, Giulio Chiribella, Yuxiang Yang
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2311.01727
Journal: npj Quantum Inf. 11 8 (2025)

Quantum teleportation of a genuine vacuum-one-photon qubit generated via a quantum dot source

Beatrice Polacchi, Francesco Hoch, Giovanni Rodari, Stefano Savo, Gonzalo Carvacho, Nicolò Spagnolo, Taira Giordani, Fabio Sciarrino
QILab Rome

Preprint: 2310.20521
Journal: Nanophoton. 1 45 (2024)

Black Hole Entropy and Planckian Discreteness

Alejandro Perez
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2310.19389
Journal: 2025, Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, p. 531-541

Spinfoams: Foundations

Typical entanglement entropy in systems with particle-number conservation

Yale Cheng, Rohit Patil, Yicheng Zhang, Marcos Rigol, Lucas Hackl
University of Melbourne

Preprint: 2310.19862
Journal: Phys.Rev.B 110 None (2024)

Dimension-independent weak value estimation via controlled SWAP operations

Giulio Chiribella, Kyrylo Simonov, Xuanqiang Zhao
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2311.03941
Journal: Phys.Rev.Res. 6 None (2024)

Experimental certification of contextuality, coherence and dimension in a programmable universal photonic processor

Taira Giordani, Rafael Wagner, Chiara Esposito, Anita Camillini, Francesco Hoch, Gonzalo Carvacho, Ciro Pentangelo, Francesco Ceccarelli, Simone Piacentini, Andrea Crespi, Nicolò Spagnolo, Roberto Osellame, Ernesto F. Galvão, Fabio Sciarrino
QILab Rome

Preprint: 2311.03266
Journal: Science Advances 9, 44, eadj4249 (2023)

Conservation Laws Reveal the Quantumness of Gravity

Tianfeng Feng, Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2311.08971

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

Renato Renner, Ramona Wolf
ETH Zürich

Preprint: 2307.15116

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

Preprint: 2307.08457

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

Alejandro Perez, Sami Viollet
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2307.10254
Journal: Entropy 2023, 25(11), 1479

The Generative Programs Framework

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

Preprint: 2307.11282

Obstructions to Compositionality

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

Preprint: 2307.14461
Journal: EPTCS 397, 2023, pp. 226-245

Light-cone thermodynamics: purification of the Minkowski vacuum

Alejandro Perez, Salvatore Ribisi
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2307.12031
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 109 (2024) 12, 125012

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

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

Preprint: 2307.07797
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 108, 044009 (2023)

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

Preprint: 2308.02422
Journal: Quantum Sci.Technol. 9 None (2024)

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

Preprint: 2308.04543
Journal: Phys.Rev.Lett. 132 None (2024)

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

Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2308.05473
Journal: Quanta 12 164 (2023)

Commuting operations factorise

Renato Renner, Ramona Wolf
ETH Zürich

Preprint: 2308.05792

Sequence Processing with Quantum Tensor Networks

Carys Harvey, Richie Yeung, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2308.07865
Journal: Sci.Rep. 15 7155 (2025)

Predictive Modelling of Quantum Process with Neural Networks

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

Preprint: 2308.08815

Matter relative to quantum hypersurfaces

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

Preprint: 2308.12912
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 109 None (2024)

Global Synthesis of CNOT Circuits with Holes

Ewan Murphy, Aleks Kissinger
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2308.16496
Journal: EPTCS 384, 2023, pp. 75-88

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

Eugenia Colafranceschi, Donald Marolf, Zhencheng Wang
UCSB

Preprint: 2309.02497
Journal: JHEP 04 140 (2024)

Null Raychaudhuri: Canonical Structure and the Dressing Time

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

Preprint: 2309.03932
Journal: JHEP 01 166 (2024)

General gravitational charges on null hypersurfaces

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

Preprint: 2309.03854
Journal: J. High Energ. Phys. 2023, 38 (2023)

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

Emily Adlam
UWO London

Preprint: 2309.03171
Journal: Found.Phys. 54 13 (2024)

Incompleteness Theorems for Observables in General Relativity

Aristotelis Panagiotopoulos, George Sparling, Marios Christodoulou
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2305.04818
Journal: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 131, No. 17, p. 171402 (23 October, 2023)

Relativistic locality can imply subsystem locality

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

Preprint: 2305.05645

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

Rohit Patil, Lucas Hackl, Marcos Rigol
University of Melbourne

Preprint: 2305.11211
Journal: Phys. Rev. B 108, 245101 (2023)

Relational superposition measurements with a material quantum ruler

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

Preprint: 2306.00347
Journal: Quantum 8, 1335 (2024).

Paradox with Phase-Coupled Interferometers

Saba Etezad-Razavi, Lucien Hardy
Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2305.14241
Journal: Phys.Rev.A 110 None (2024)

Observers in superposition and the no-signaling principle

Veronika Baumann, Caslav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2305.15497
Journal: Quantum 8 1481 (2024)

Linear Ultrastrong Optomechanical Interaction

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

Preprint: 2305.16226
Journal: Phys.Rev.Res. 6 None (2024)

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

Emily Adlam
UWO London

Preprint: 2305.13201
Journal: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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

Pablo Arrighi, Gilles Dowek, Amélia Durbec
Paris-Saclay

Preprint: 2306.07121
Journal: New J. Phys. 26 113019 (2024)

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

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

Preprint: 2306.00842
Journal: Eur.Phys.J.H 48 (2023) 1, 11

Nonclassicality in correlations without causal order

Ravi Kunjwal, Ognyan Oreshkov
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2307.02565

Graphical CSS Code Transformation Using ZX Calculus

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

Preprint: 2307.02437
Journal: EPTCS 384, 2023, pp. 1-19

Quantum Causal Inference with Extremely Light Touch

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

Preprint: 2303.10544
Journal: npj Quantum Inf. 11 54 (2025)

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

Preprint: 2204.10273
Journal: Quantum 7, 1028 (2023)

Quantum-Enhanced Learning of Continuous-Variable Quantum States

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

Preprint: 2303.05097
Journal: Phys.Rev.Res. 6 None (2024)

Which theories have a measurement problem?

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

Preprint: 2303.03353

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

Sarah C. Gallagher, Chris Smeenk
UWO London

Preprint: 2302.10774

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

Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2303.00831
Journal: Quantum Rep. 5 475 (2023)

Graph subshifts

Pablo Arrighi, Amélia Durbec, Pierre Guillon
Paris-Saclay

Preprint: 2302.07249

Complete Graphical Language for Hermiticity-Preserving Superoperators

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

Preprint: 2302.04212

Are Entropy Bounds Epistemic?

Emily Adlam
UWO London

Preprint: 2303.10781

Classification of causally complete spaces on 3 events with binary inputs

Stefano Gogioso, Nicola Pinzani
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2303.09925

The Geometry of Causality

Stefano Gogioso, Nicola Pinzani
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2303.09017

The Topology of Causality

Stefano Gogioso, Nicola Pinzani
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2303.07148

On the analogies between gravitational and electromagnetic radiative energy

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

Preprint: 2303.14064
Journal: Philosophy of Physics, 2(1), p. 2

On the Inevitable Lightness of Vacuum

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

Preprint: 2303.17495
Journal: Int.J.Mod.Phys.D 32 None (2023)

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

Preprint: 2303.17223
Journal: Nat. Phys. (2023)

Gravitationally-induced entanglement in cold atoms

Richard Howl, Nathan Cooper, Lucia Hackermüller
Royal Holloway

Preprint: 2304.00734

Probes, purviews, purgatories, parable, paradox?

Josh Kirklin
OIST

Preprint: 2304.00679

Picturing counting reductions with the ZH-calculus

Tuomas Laakkonen, Konstantinos Meichanetzidis, John van de Wetering
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2304.02524
Journal: EPTCS 384, 2023, pp. 89-113

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

Swati, Uttam Singh, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2304.08926

The principle of a finite density of information

Pablo Arrighi, Gilles Dowek
Paris-Saclay

Preprint: 2304.08064

Dark Energy or Modified Gravity?

Chris Smeenk, James Owen Weatherall
UWO London

Preprint: 2304.14591
Journal: Phil.Sci. 91 1232 (2024)

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

Preprint: 2305.07649
Journal: Nature Commun. 16 1403 (2025)

On the consistency of relative facts

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

Preprint: 2305.07343
Journal: Euro Jnl Phil Sci 13, 55 (2023).

How to sum and exponentiate Hamiltonians in ZXW calculus

Razin A. Shaikh, Quanlong Wang, Richie Yeung
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2212.04462
Journal: EPTCS 394, 2023, pp. 236-261

Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives on the Cosmological Constant

Adam Koberinski, Bridget Falck, Chris Smeenk
UWO London

Preprint: 2212.04335
Journal: Universe 2023, 9(3), 134

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

Alejandro Perez, Salvatore Ribisi, Sami Viollet
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2301.03951
Journal: Universe 2023, 9(2), 75

Do We Have Any Viable Solution to the Measurement Problem?

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

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

Preprint: 2301.10261
Journal: Quantum 7, 1142 (2023)

Summing bulk quantum numbers with Monte Carlo in spin foam theories

Pietro Dona, Pietropaolo Frisoni
UWO London

Preprint: 2302.00072
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 107, 106008

Loop Quantum Gravity and Quantum Information

Quantum Reference Frames at the Boundary of Spacetime

Viktoria Kabel, Časlav Brukner, Wolfgang Wieland
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2302.11629
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 108, 106022

Geometry Transition in Spinfoams

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

Preprint: 2302.12622
Journal: Class.Quant.Grav. 41 None (2024)

Unextendible product bases from orthogonality graphs

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

Preprint: 2303.02553
Journal: Phys. Rev. Research 5, 033144

Indeterminism and Bell nonlocality with classical systems

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

Preprint: 2301.10885
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 190201 (2024

Hybrid nonlocality via atom photon interactions with and without impurities

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

Preprint: 2302.11513
Journal: Phys.Rev.A 111 None (2025)

Basic ZX-calculus for students and professionals

Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2303.03163

Distilling Text into Circuits

Vincent Wang-Mascianica, Jonathon Liu, Bob Coecke
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2301.10595

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

Preprint: 2302.12135
Journal: 38th Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS)

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

Preprint: 2302.03872
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 107, 064011

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

Preprint: 2207.10592
Journal: Quantum 7, 958 (2023)

Inference of gravitational field superposition from quantum measurements

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

Preprint: 2209.02214
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 108, 084038 (2023)

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

Onur Pusuluk, Zafer Gedik, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2209.09172

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

Preprint: 2210.17046
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 160201 (2024)

Quantum Euler angles and agency-dependent spacetime

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

Preprint: 2211.11347
Journal: PTEP 2024 (2024) 3, 033A01

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

Preprint: 2211.15638

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

Emily Adlam, Niels Linnemann, James Read
UWO London

Preprint: 2211.05672

Geometry from local flatness in Lorentzian spin foam theories

Pietro Dona
UWO London

Preprint: 2211.04743
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 107 (2023) 6, 066011

Cosmological constraints on unimodular gravity models with diffusion

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

Preprint: 2211.07424
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 108, 043524

Philosophical Foundations of Loop Quantum Gravity

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

Preprint: 2211.06718
Journal: In Bambi, C., Modesto, L., Shapiro, I. (eds) Handbook of Quantum Gravity. Springer, Singapore (2023)

Quantum diffeomorphisms cannot make indefinite causal order definite

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

Preprint: 2211.15685

Contextuality in entanglement-assisted one-shot classical communication

Shiv Akshar Yadavalli, Ravi Kunjwal
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2006.00469
Journal: Quantum 6, 839 (2022)

Determinism Beyond Time Evolution

Emily Adlam
UWO London

Preprint: 2110.07656
Journal: Euro Jnl Phil Sci 12, 73 (2022)

Entanglement-asymmetry correspondence for internal quantum reference frames

Anne-Catherine de la Hamette, Stefan L. Ludescher, Markus P. Mueller
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2112.00046
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 260404 (2022)

Controlling wave-particle duality with quantum entanglement

Kai Wang, Daniel R. Terno, Caslav Brukner, Shining Zhu, Xiao-Song Ma
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2112.11659
Journal: Phys. Rev. A 106, 053715

Two Roads to Retrocausality

Emily Adlam
UWO London

Preprint: 2201.12934
Journal: Synthese 200, 422 (2022)

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

Metriplectic geometry for gravitational subsystems

Viktoria Kabel, Wolfgang Wieland
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2206.00029
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 106, 064053

Radiative corrections to the Lorentzian EPRL spin foam propagator

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

Preprint: 2206.14755
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 106 (2022) 6, 066022

Time, space and matter in the primordial universe

Francesca Vidotto
UWO London

Preprint: 2207.13722
Journal: Advances in Cosmology. Springer, Cham.

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

Preprint: 2210.07263
Journal: Nat Commun 14, 909 (2023)

Quantum communication through devices in an indefinite input-output direction

Zixuan Liu, Ming Yang, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2212.08265
Journal: New J.Phys. 25 (2023) 043017

Generic features of a polymer quantum black hole

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

Preprint: 2212.06708
Journal: Class. Quantum Grav. 40 135003

Wald-Zoupas prescription with (soft) anomalies

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

Preprint: 2212.07947
Journal: Phys. Rev. D 107, 084028

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

Emily Adlam
UWO London

Preprint: 2203.16278
Journal: Synthese volume 200, Article number: 522 (2022)

Existence of processes violating causal inequalities on time-delocalised subsystems

Julian Wechs, Cyril Branciard, Ognyan Oreshkov
Université Libre Bruxelles

Preprint: 2201.11832
Journal: Nature Communications 14, 1471 (2023)

Geometry from quantum temporal correlations

James Fullwood, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2502.13293

Refining embeddings with fill-tuning: data-efficient generalised performance improvements for materials foundation models

Matthew P. Wilson, Edward O. Pyzer-Knapp, Nicolas Galichet, Luke Dicks
Paris-Saclay

Preprint: 2502.13886

Computing the graph-changing dynamics of loop quantum gravity

Thiago L. M. Guedes, Guillermo A. Mena Marugán, Francesca Vidotto, Markus Müller
UWO London

Preprint: 2412.20257

Taming Thiemann’s Hamiltonian constraint in canonical loop quantum gravity: reversibility, eigenstates and graph-change analysis

Thiago L. M. Guedes, Guillermo A. Mena Marugán, Markus Müller, Francesca Vidotto
UWO London

Preprint: 2412.20272

Average mutual information for random fermionic Gaussian quantum states

Lucas Hackl, Mario Kieburg, Joel Maldonado
University of Melbourne

Preprint: 2412.20244

Dissipation-induced Quantum Homogenization for Temporal Information Processing

Alexander Yosifov, Aditya Iyer, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2412.09979
Journal: Phys.Rev.A 111 None (2025)

Formation of nonsingular spherical black holes with holonomy corrections

Asier Alonso-Bardaji
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2410.20529
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 111 (2025) 8, 084023

A Photonic Parameter-shift Rule: Enabling Gradient Computation for Photonic Quantum Computers

Axel Pappalardo, Pierre-Emmanuel Emeriau, Giovanni de Felice, Brian Ventura, Hugo Jaunin, Richie Yeung, Bob Coecke, Shane Mansfield
Quantinuum

Preprint: 2410.02726
Journal: Phys.Rev.A 111 None (2025)

The role of non-classicality in mediated spatial quantum correlations

Salvatore Raia, Giuseppe Di Pietra, Chiara Marletto
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2410.00824

Quantum Mutual Information in Time

James Fullwood, Zhen Wu, Arthur J. Parzygnat, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2410.02137

Universal quantum theory contains twisted logic

Francesco Atzori, Enrico Rebufello, Maria Violaris, Laura T. Knoll, Abdulla Alhajri, Alessio Avella, Marco Gramegna, Chiara Marletto, Vlatko Vedral, Fabrizio Piacentini, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Marco Genovese
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2409.20480

Diagrams and GPTs for Quantum Gravity

Andrea Di Biagio
IQOQI Vienna

Journal: Quantum Views 8, 78 (2024)

The Bose-Marletto-Vedral proposal in different frames of reference and the quantum nature of gravity

Antonia Weber, Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Preprint: 2406.14334

Tomography of clock signals using the simplest possible reference

Nuriya Nurgalieva, Ralph Silva, Renato Renner
ETH Zürich

Preprint: 2406.12973

Quantum homogenization as a quantum steady-state protocol on noisy intermediate-scale quantum hardware

Alexander Yosifov, Aditya Iyer, Daniel Ebler, and Vlatko Vedral
Oxford Physics Department

Journal: Phys. Rev. A 109, 032624

Causal structure in spin-foams

Eugenio Bianchi, Pierre Martin-Dussaud
IGC at Penn State

Preprint: 2109.00986
Journal: Universe 2024, 10(4), 181

Exploring the Local Landscape in the Triangle Network

Elisa Bäumer, Victor Gitton, Tamás Kriváchy, Nicolas Gisin, Renato Renner
ETH Zürich

Preprint: 2405.08939

Spatially local energy density of gravitational waves

Antoine Rignon-Bret, Simone Speziale
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2405.08808
Journal: JHEP 03 (2025) 048

Centerless-BMS charge algebra

Antoine Rignon-Bret, Simone Speziale
CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2405.01526
Journal: Phys.Rev.D 110 (2024) 4, 044050

Space-time deterministic graph rewriting

Pablo Arrighi, Marin Costes, Gilles Dowek, Luidnel Maignan
Paris-Saclay

Preprint: 2404.05838

Scalable spider nests (…or how to graphically grok transversal non-Clifford gates)

Aleks Kissinger, John van de Wetering
Oxford Computer Science

Preprint: 2404.07828
Journal: EPTCS 406, 2024, pp. 79-95

Maximum and minimum causal effects of quantum processes

Kaumudibikash Goswami, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2404.07683

Generic ETH: Eigenstate Thermalization beyond the Microcanonical

Elena Cáceres, Stefan Eccles, Jason Pollack, Sarah Racz
OIST

Preprint: 2403.05197

String diagrams for wave-based computation

Muhammad Hamza Waseem, Alexy D. Karenowska
Quantinuum

Journal: Appl. Phys. Lett. 123, 242402 (2023)

Hollow-core fiber loading of nanoparticles into ultra-high vacuum

Stefan Lindner, Paul Juschitz, Jakob Rieser, Yaakov Y. Fein, Mario Ciampini, Markus Aspelmeyer, Nikolai Kiesel
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2311.13920
Journal: Appl.Phys.Lett. 124 None (2024)

Note on episodes in the history of modeling measurements in local spacetime regions using QFT

Doreen Fraser, Maria Papageorgiou
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2311.03428
Journal: EPJ H 48, 14 (2023)

Scientific Models Are Not Fictions

Erik Curiel
Universität Bonn

On playing gods: The fallacy of the many-worlds interpretation

Luis C. Barbado, Flavio Del Santo
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2311.03467

Learning and Discovering Quantum Properties with Multi-Task Neural Networks

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

Preprint: 2310.11807
Journal: Nature Communications 15, 8796 (2024)

Virtual quantum broadcasting

Arthur J. Parzygnat, James Fullwood, Francesco Buscemi, Giulio Chiribella
QICI Hong Kong

Preprint: 2310.13049
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 110203 (2024)

Quantum reference frames for an indefinite metric

Anne-Catherine de la Hamette, Viktoria Kabel, Esteban Castro-Ruiz, Časlav Brukner
IQOQI Vienna

Preprint: 2112.11473
Journal: Commun Phys 6, 231 (2023)

Switching quantum reference frames in the N-body problem and the absence of global relational perspectives

Augustin Vanrietvelde, Philipp A. Hoehn, Flaminia Giacomini
OISt, ETH Zürich

Preprint: 1809.05093
Journal: Quantum 7, 1088 (2023)

Temporal witnesses of non-classicality in a macroscopic biological system

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

Preprint: 2306.12799
Journal: J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 56 265305

Spinfoams and high performance computing

Experimental superposition of time directions

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

Preprint: 2211.01283
Journal: Phys.Rev.Res. 6 None (2024)

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

Fabio M. Mele, Johannes Münch
OIST, CPT Marseille

Preprint: 2211.01268
Journal: Class. Quantum Grav. 41 245003

How causation is rooted into thermodynamics

Carlo Rovelli
CPT Marseille, UWO London, Perimeter Institute

Preprint: 2211.00888
Journal: Philosophy of Physics, 1(1), p. 11

Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for graph refinement in Spinfoam Cosmology

Pietropaolo Frisoni, Francesco Gozzini, Francesca Vidotto
UWO London

Preprint: 2207.02881
Journal: Class. Quantum Grav. 40 105001

Gravitational time dilation as a resource in quantum sensing

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

Preprint: 2204.03006
Journal: Quantum 7, 946 (2023)

Locally mediated entanglement through gravity from first principles

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

Preprint: 2202.03368
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 130, 100202

The nonequilibrium cost of accurate information processing

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

Preprint: 2203.09369
Journal: Nat Commun 13, 7155 (2022)

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