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The (consistent or decoherent) histories interpretation provides a consistent realistic ontology for quantum mechanics, based on two main ideas. First, a logic (system of reasoning) is employed which is compatible with the Hilbert-space…

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We give a consistent quantum description of time, based on Page and Wootters' conditional probabilities mechanism, that overcomes the criticisms that were raised against similar previous proposals. In particular we show how the model allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 Vittorio Giovannetti , Seth Lloyd , Lorenzo Maccone

Microscopic quantum laws are time-symmetric: nothing in the Schr\"odinger equation or its relativistic extensions distinguishes future from past. Yet measurements produce irreversible records, an apparently one-way causal flow, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Alejandro Frank

The understanding of time and dynamics can be elucidated by examining the concept of entanglement in quantum theory. This particular perspective on time is referred to as the timeless approach, which posits that the universe exists in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-07 H. Hadi , F. Darabi , K. Atazadeh

A quantum clock must satisfy two basic constraints. The first is a bound on the time resolution of the clock given by the difference between its maximum and minimum energy eigenvalues. The second follows from Holevo's bound on how much…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Buzek , R. Derka , S. Massar

Time is a parameter playing a central role in our most fundamental modeling of natural laws. Relativity theory shows that the comparison of times measured by different clocks depends on their relative motions and on the strength of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-11 Pierre Magain , Clémentine Hauret

"Quantum sensing" describes the use of a quantum system, quantum properties or quantum phenomena to perform a measurement of a physical quantity. Historical examples of quantum sensors include magnetometers based on superconducting quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-31 C. L. Degen , F. Reinhard , P. Cappellaro

Quantum scale estimation, as introduced and explored here, establishes the most precise framework for the estimation of scale parameters that is allowed by the laws of quantum mechanics. This addresses an important gap in quantum metrology,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-18 Jesús Rubio

In this paper I discuss the concept of time in physics. I consider the thermal time hypothesis and I claim that thermal clocks and atomic clocks measure different physical times, whereby thermal time and relativistic time are not compatible…

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We prove that the quantum measurement process contains the same warping mechanism that occurs in categorical perception, a phenomenon ubiquitous in human perception. This warping causes stimuli belonging to the same category to be perceived…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-05 Diederik Aerts , Jonito Aerts Arguëlles , Sandro Sozzo

Time reflection and refraction are temporal analogies of the spatial boundary effects derived from Fermat's principle. They occur when classical waves strike a time boundary where an abrupt change in the properties of the medium is…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-09-20 Zhaoli Dong , Hang Li , Tuo Wan , Qian Liang , Zhaoju Yang , Bo Yan

The measurement postulate of quantum theory stands in conflict with the laws of thermodynamics and has evoked debate regarding what actually constitutes a measurement. With the help of modern quantum statistical mechanics, we take the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Emanuel Schwarzhans , Felix C. Binder , Marcus Huber , Maximilian P. E. Lock

Phase-space analysis or time-frequency analysis can be thought as Fourier analysis simultaneously both in time and in frequency, originating from signal processing and quantum mechanics. On groups having unitary Fourier transform, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Ville Turunen

We suggest an interpretation of quantum mechanics, inspired by the ideas of Aharonov et al. of a time-symmetric description of quantum theory. We show that a special final boundary condition for the Universe, may be consistently defined as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yakir Aharonov , Eyal Y. Gruss

Quantum computation offers a promising new kind of information processing, where the non-classical features of quantum mechanics can be harnessed and exploited. A number of models of quantum computation exist, including the now well-studied…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-03 H. J. Briegel , D. E. Browne , W. Dür , R. Raussendorf , M. Van den Nest

Quantum sensing is a rapidly growing approach to probe fundamental physics and explore new phase space for possible new physics with precision and highly sensitive measurements in our quest to understand the deep structure of matter and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Steven D. Bass , Michael Doser

In this paper we argue that one-way quantum computation can be seen as a form of phase transition with the available information about the solution of the computation being the order parameter. We draw a number of striking analogies between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Janet Anders , Damian Markham , Vlatko Vedral , Michal Hajdušek

Quantum computing and the workings of the brain have many aspects in common and have been attracting increasing attention in academia and industry. The computation in both is parallel and non-discrete. Though the underlying physical…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-11-14 Yasunao Katayama

We propose to use the effect of measurements instead of their number to study the time evolution of quantum systems under monitoring. This time redefinition acts like a microscope which blows up the inner details of seemingly instantaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 Michel Bauer , Denis Bernard , Antoine Tilloy

The complementarity between time and energy, as well as between an angle and a component of angular momentum, is described at three different layers of understanding. The phenomena of super-resolution are readily apparent in the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Scott Roger Shepard