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quantum-foundations

23 notes carry this tag — 14 claims, 3 questions, 6 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Does Aharonov's retrocausal two-state-vector formalism have documented contact with CS debates on retrocausality or computation?
  capture promoted 2026-10-28 · quantum-foundations, retrocausality, closed-timelike-curves, computational-complexity, aharonov
• Aaronson's 2005 postselection paper cites Dorit Aharonov, a different person from Yakir Aharonov, with no engagement of the retrocausal weak-value program
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-28 · quantum-foundations, computational-complexity, aharonov, aaronson, false-positive-guard
• Brun and Wilde's 2012 paper extends the Lloyd et al. P-CTC/Aaronson-postselection citation chain to concrete computational speedups including integer factoring
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-28 · quantum-foundations, retrocausality, closed-timelike-curves, postselection, aharonov
• Lloyd et al.'s 2010 postselected-closed-timelike-curve paper cites Aharonov's weak-value paper and Aaronson's postselection result in the same argument
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-28 · quantum-foundations, retrocausality, closed-timelike-curves, postselection, aharonov
• Did the 2016 quantum pigeonhole PNAS paper actually win the Cozzarelli Prize, per PNAS/NAS's own announcement?
  capture promoted 2026-10-27 · physics, quantum-foundations, quantum-pigeonhole, awards, cozzarelli-prize
• What is the exact URL and source_sha for Tirzah Kaufherr's Tel Aviv University faculty page listing her 1981 PhD thesis?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-10-25 · physics, quantum-foundations, aharonov, kaufherr, source-provenance
• Did Aharonov's quantum-frames-of-reference work with Aage Petersen actually predate its 1973/74 and 1984 publication by roughly a decade?
  capture promoted 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, reference-frame, history-of-science, priority
• Does Bohm and Aharonov's 1957 Physical Review paper actually show quantum correlations exceed the natural classical account, ahead of Bell 1964?
  capture promoted 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• Bohm and Aharonov's 1957 result is narrower than Bell's 1964 theorem because the Wu-Shaknov apparatus only ever measured parallel or perpendicular polarizations
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• Bohm and Aharonov's 1957 calculation ruled out Furry's classical-mixture hypothesis, not every classical account of the Wu-Shaknov correlations
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• Tirzah Kaufherr's PhD thesis on quantum frames of reference predates the 1984 Aharonov–Kaufherr journal paper by three years
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, reference-frame, history-of-science, priority
• Abner Shimony heard Aharonov's 1957-paper priority claim directly in the 1960s and built a new Bell test instead of accepting it
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• What is the exact URL and source_sha for Tirzah Kaufherr's Tel Aviv University faculty page listing her 1981 PhD thesis, quoted in claim-kaufherr-1981-phd-thesis-predates-1984-journal-paper-by-three-years?
  question answered 2026-10-24 · physics, quantum-foundations, aharonov, kaufherr, source-provenance
• A Personal History in Quantum Foundations: an Oral History Interview (arXiv:2610.30998)
  capture promoted 2026-10-23 · physics, history-of-science, quantum-foundations, oral-history, arxiv
• Aharonov's 1988 weak-value concept originated from noticing measurement disturbance scales as epsilon-squared while extracted information scales as epsilon
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, weak-value, weak-measurement, history-of-science
• The 2016 quantum pigeonhole principle shows three particles can occupy only two boxes with no two ever found together
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, weak-value, quantum-pigeonhole, history-of-science
• Aharonov's quantum-frames-of-reference work predates its 1973/74 and 1984 publication by roughly a decade
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, reference-frame, history-of-science, priority
• Aharonov's one meeting with Niels Bohr consisted of Bohr lecturing him for an hour rather than hearing his question
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, history-of-science, niels-bohr, anecdote
• Aharonov considers Aharonov-Bohm-type "dynamical" nonlocality more fundamental than Bell-type entanglement
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, aharonov-bohm-effect, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• Bohm and Aharonov's 1957 EPR paper showed quantum correlations exceed the natural classical account, years before Bell's theorem
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science
• The 2016 quantum pigeonhole principle paper won PNAS's Cozzarelli Prize
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, quantum-pigeonhole, awards, cozzarelli-prize
• Did Aharonov's quantum-frames-of-reference work with Aage Petersen actually predate its 1973/74 and 1984 publication by roughly a decade?
  question answered 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, reference-frame, history-of-science, priority
• Does Bohm and Aharonov's 1957 Physical Review paper actually show quantum correlations exceed the natural classical account, ahead of Bell 1964?
  question answered 2026-10-23 · physics, quantum-foundations, epr, bell-theorem, history-of-science