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The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been discussed since this theme first was brought up by Einstein and Bohr. This article describes a proposal for a new foundation of quantum theory, partly drawing upon ideas from statistical…

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The study of complex systems through the lens of category theory consistently proves to be a powerful approach. We propose that cognition deserves the same category-theoretic treatment. We show that by considering a highly-compact cognitive…

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This essay provides a short introduction to the ideas and potential implications of quantum physics for scholars in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Quantum-inspired ideas pepper current discourse in all of these fields, in ways…

Popular Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Kathryn Schaffer , Gabriela Barreto Lemos

In condensed matter physics and related areas, topological defects play important roles in phase transitions and critical phenomena. Homotopy theory facilitates the classification of such topological defects. After a pedagogic introduction…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-28 Ralph Kenna

The role of topology in elementary quantum physics is discussed in detail. It is argued that attributes of classical spatial topology emerge from properties of state vectors with suitably smooth time evolution. Equivalently, they emerge…

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In this thesis we use the language of sheaf theory in order to develop a deeper understanding of some of the fundamental differences - such as entanglement, contextuality and non-locality - between quantum and classical physics. We first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Carmen Maria Constantin

These notes offer a basic introduction to the primary mathematical concepts of quantum physics, and their physical significance, from the operator and Hilbert space point of view, highlighting more what are essentially the abstract…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-04 Jan Govaerts

The theory of quantum mechanics is examined using non-standard real numbers, called quantum real numbers (qr-numbers), that are constructed from standard Hilbert space entities. Our goal is to resolve some of the paradoxical features of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-03 John V Corbett

In the framework of the topos approach to quantum mechanics we give a representation of physical properties in terms of modal operators on Heyting algebras. It allows us to introduce a classical type study of the mentioned properties.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-23 Hector Freytes , Graciela Domenech , Christian de Ronde

The overwhelming majority of the attempts in exploring the problems related to quantum logical structures and their interpretation have been based on an underlying set-theoretic syntactic language. We propose a transition in the involved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-07 Elias Zafiris , Vassilios Karakostas

How does one formalize the structure of structures necessary for the foundations of physics? This work is an attempt at conceptualizing the metaphysics of pregeometric structures, upon which new and existing notions of quantum geometry may…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Xerxes D. Arsiwalla , Hatem Elshatlawy , Dean Rickles

We present a set of principles and methodologies which may serve as foundations of a unifying theory of Mathematics. These principles are based on a new view of Grothendieck toposes as unifying spaces being able to act as `bridges' for…

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Modal logics have proved useful for many reasoning tasks in symbolic artificial intelligence (AI), such as belief revision, spatial reasoning, among others. On the other hand, mathematical morphology (MM) is a theory for non-linear analysis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Marc Aiguier , Isabelle Bloch , Salim Nibouche , Ramon Pino Perez

The role of topology in QIS with physical connection to the noncommutativity, discretization,supersymmetry, entanglement, nonseparability and CP violation in physics is discussed.

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Quantum information and computation may serve as a source of useful axioms and ideas for the quantum logic/quantum structures project of characterizing and classifying types of physical theories, including quantum mechanics and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Howard Barnum

We survey indications from different branches of Physics that the fine scale structure of spacetime is not adequately described by a manifold. Based on the hints we accumulate, we propose a new structure, which we call a quantum topos. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-07-02 Louis Crane

These expanded lecture notes are based on a tutorial on categorical proof theory presented at the summer school associated with the conference "Topology, Algebra, and Categories in Logic 2021-2022." The chapter delves into various…

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A brief synopsis of recent conceptions and results, the current status and future outlook of our research program of applying sheaf and topos-theoretic ideas to quantum gravity and quantum logic is presented.

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