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It is known that by longing the duration of a vibrotactile stimuli or applying a damping or an increasing factor to the waveform the perceived intensity is affected in different ways. This paper presents a vibrotactile presentation system…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Takumi Kuhara , Hikari Yukawa , Yoshihiro Tanaka

Evidence for fine-tuning of physical parameters suitable for life can perhaps be explained by almost any combination of providence, coincidence or multiverse. A multiverse usually includes parts unobservable to us, but if the theory for it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Don N. Page

The idea that wave-function collapse is a physical process stems from a misunderstanding of probability and the role it plays in quantum mechanics.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 N. David Mermin

We analyze a system of reacting elements harmonically coupled to nearest neighbors in the continuum limit. An analytic solution is found for traveling waves. The procedure is used to find oscillatory as well as solitary waves. A comparison…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-07 G. Abramson , A. R. Bishop , V. M. Kenkre

In a consistent description of the quantum measurement process, whether the wave or particle-like aspect of a system is revealed depends on the details of the measurement chain, and cannot be interpreted as an objective fact about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Hudson A. Loughlin , Germain Tobar , Evan D. Hall , Vivishek Sudhir

The idea that the wave function represents information, or knowledge, rather than the state of a microscopic object has been held to solve foundational problems of quantum mechanics. Realist interpretation schemes, like Bohmian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Louis Marchildon

Understanding the quantum measurement problem is closely associated with understanding wave function collapse. Motivated by Breuer's claim that it is impossible for an observer to distinguish all states of a system in which it is contained,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 B. K. Jennings

The evolution of a measured system and an experimental apparatus is presented in an unified form. Conditions under which the state of such a total system forms, evaluates and declines from a superposition of states are defined. The problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-26 Janusz Gluza , Jerzy Kosek

A coherent picture of the wavepacket-reduction process is proposed which is formulated in the framework of a deterministic and realist interpretation where the concepts of knowledge or information and of point particles do not appear. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Arthur Jabs

The structure of covariant instruments is studied and a general structure theorem is derived. A detailed characterization is given to covariant instruments in the case of an irreducible representation of a locally compact group.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-16 Claudio Carmeli , Teiko Heinosaari , Alessandro Toigo

For a given many-electron molecule, it is possible to define a corresponding one-electron Schr\"odinger equation, using potentials derived from simple atomic densities, whose solution predicts fairly accurate molecular orbitals for single-…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Jerry L. Whitten

One attractive interpretation of quantum mechanics is the ensemble interpretation, where Quantum Mechanics merely describes a statistical ensemble of objects and not individual objects. But this interpretation does not address why the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Leonardo Pedro

We here discuss the outcome of an hypothetic experiments of populations dynamics, where a set of independent realizations is made available. The importance of ensemble average is clarified with reference to the registered time evolution of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-10-31 Timoteo Carletti , Duccio Fanelli

The Copenhagen Interpretation describes individual systems, using the same Hilbert space formalism as does the statistical ensemble interpretation (SQM). This leads to the well-known paradoxes surrounding the Measurement Problem. We extend…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 James Ax , Simon Kochen

I study the quantum mechanics of a spin interacting with an ``apparatus''. Although the evolution of the whole system is unitary, the spin evolution is not. The system is chosen so that the spin exhibits loss of quantum coherence, or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-08 Andreas Albrecht

In the well known Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum mechanics, advocated by N. Bohr, the physical objects and the experimental results can be described only in a macroscopic language, leaving any possible microscopic description as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 M. Baldo

The approach allowing is considered to represent the solutions such as stationary lonely waves of various nonlinear wave the equations as system of the ordinary differential equations in variable action - angle.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Skripka

We discuss the possibility of making the {\it initial} definitions of mutually different (possibly interacting, or even entangled) systems in the context of decoherence theory. We point out relativity of the concept of elementary physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-21 Miroljub Dugic

The detail structure of the wave function is analyzed at various refinement levels using the methods of wavelet analysis. The eigenvalue problem of a model system is solved in granular Hilbert spaces, and the trajectory of the eigenstates…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Pipek , Sz. Nagy

Fluctuations in the return time statistics of a dynamical system can be described by a new spectrum of dimensions. Comparison with the usual multifractal analysis of measures is presented, and difference between the two corresponding sets…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Hadyn , J. Luevano , G. Mantica , S. Vaienti