Foundations of Physics

Papers
(The median citation count of Foundations of Physics is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Is Time the Real Line?29
Modeling the Past Hypothesis: A Mechanical Cosmology24
Position as an Independent Variable and the Emergence of the 1/2-Time Fractional Derivative in Quantum Mechanics19
Free Electron Paths from Dirac’s Wave Equation Elucidating Zitterbewegung and Spin18
Beyond the Quantum Membrane Paradigm: A Philosophical Analysis of the Structure of Black Holes in Full QG16
Einstein Completeness as Categoricity15
From Joint to Single-System $$\psi$$-Onticity Without Preparation Independence15
Spontaneous Collapse Theories and Temporal Primitivism about Time’s Direction14
Perspectives in and on Quantum Theory13
Anti-foundationalist Coherentism as an Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics13
Relativistic Hydrodynamic Interpretation of de Broglie Matter Waves12
Weak Ratios12
A Heptalemma for Quantum Mechanics12
The Point of Primitive Ontology12
Can the Ontology of Bohmian Mechanics Consists Only in Particles? The PBR Theorem Says No11
A Pilot-Wave Approach to the Many-Body Problem: Beyond the Small Entanglement Approximation11
The Radiation Field, at the Origin of the Quantum Canonical Operators10
New Insights on the Quantum-Classical Division in Light of Collapse Models10
Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Fractional Space Time Dimensions10
Affine Geometry and Relativity10
Schrödinger Cats and Quantum Complementarity10
Quantum Probability Geometrically Realized in Projective Space10
Towards a Better Understanding of the Electron’s Magnetic Moment: A Reply to Sanchioni9
The Paradox of Classical Reasoning9
Quantum Physics, Digital Computers, and Life from a Holistic Perspective9
Mathematical Models of Photons9
On the Emergent Origin of the Inertial Mass9
Is the Universe in a Mixed State?9
Are Hilbert Spaces Unphysical? Hardly, My Dear!9
Relativistic Corrections to the Quantization of a Classical Spinning Particle with Constant Electric and Magnetic Fields8
From Hamilton-Jacobi to Bohm: Why the Wave Function Isn’t Just Another Action8
Has the Problem of the Motion of a Heavy Symmetric Top been Solved in Quadratures?8
Relational Properties and Relational Quantum Mechanics7
Do(es the Influence of) Empty Waves Survive in Configuration Space?7
Learning from Paradoxes7
Towards an Information Description of Space-Time7
Aspects of Superdeterminism Made Intuitive7
A Note on the Electron’s Magnetic Moment7
The Identification of Mean Quantum Potential with Fisher Information Leads to a Strong Uncertainty Relation6
How Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics can Enrich Each Other: The Case of the Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation6
Energy in Newtonian Gravity6
The Non-vanishing Imprint of Gravitational Waves as the Result of Its Nonlinear Evolution in Space6
Objective Collapse Induced by a Macroscopic Object6
Non-Relativistic Regime and Topology: Topological Term in the Einstein Equation5
Relativistic QFT from a Bohmian Perspective: A Proof of Concept5
A proof that no-signalling implies microcausality in quantum field theory5
Conservation Laws in Quantum Database Search5
On the Growing Universe of Causal Set Theory—An Order-Type Approach5
Prediction and Inference: From Models and Data to Artificial Intelligence5
Causal Set Theory is (Strongly) Causal5
Against Radical Relationalism: in Defense of the Ordinal Structure of Time5
The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics5
Emergent Phenomena in Nature: A Paradox with Theory?5
What is It Like to be a Relativistic GRW Theory? Or: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Still in Conflict After All These Years5
From Global Time to Local Physics5
Coarse-grained Entropy Balance of the Szilard Engine5
Generalized Aharonov-Bohm Effect5
Thermodynamic Signature of Logical Depth in Quantum Circuits5
Eliminating the ‘Impossible’: Recent Progress on Local Measurement Theory for Quantum Field Theory5
The estimation of the mean value of copies of uncertain positions and its relation to the basic structure of quantum mechanics4
Phenomenology, Perspectivalism and (Quantum) Physics4
Weak Particle Presence4
A Decoherence-Based Approach to the Classical Limit in Bohm’s Theory4
Building Spacetime from Effective Interactions Between Quantum Fluctuations4
Understanding Time Reversal in Quantum Mechanics: A New Derivation4
Unitary Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics is a Stronger Physical Postulate than Linear Time Evolution4
Convergence to Bohmian Mechanics in a de Broglie-Like Pilot-Wave System4
Black Hole Entropy from Non-dirichlet Sectors, and a Bounce Solution4
Correction to Article “Free Electron Paths from Dirac’s Wave Equation Elucidating Zitterbewegung and Spin” in Foundations of Physics (2026) 56:104
Beyond the Born Rule in Quantum Gravity4
Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones Toward ψ-Doxastic Interpretations?4
Hodology4
Achronotopic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics4
Avoiding Sparseness in a Flash Ontology4
A Diagrammatic Formulation of Local Realism4
On the Alternatives to the Ideal Mathematical Points-Like Separatedness4
Swampland Revisited4
Revisiting the Charged Harmonic Oscillator in a Uniform Electric Field4
Proposed Experiments for Detecting Contextual Hidden Variables4
On the Role of an Intrinsic Action Uncertainty in Classical Dynamics4
What Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics?4
The Determinacy Problem in Quantum Mechanics3
Plane Wave Solutions to a Proposed “Equation of Everything”3
The Decoherent Arrow of Time and the Entanglement Past Hypothesis3
Life, the Multiverse, and Fine-Tuning3
An Operational Notion of Classicality Based on Physical Principles3
Comment on a No-Go Theorem for $$\psi $$-Ontic Models3
Quantum Mereology and Subsystems from the Spectrum3
A Note on Penrose’s Spin-Geometry Theorem and the Geometry of ‘Empirical Quantum Angles’3
A Viable Varying Speed of Light Model in the RW Metric3
Is Superluminal Signaling Possible in Collapse Theories of Quantum Mechanics?3
Relational Quantum Mechanics: Ozawa’s Intersubjectivity Theorem as Justification of the Postulate on Internally Consistent Descriptions3
The Intrinsic and Extrinsic Hierarchy Problems3
Does Locality Imply Reality of the Wave Function? Hardy’s Theorem Revisited3
Relational Quantum Mechanics and Contextuality3
On perspectivism and relationalism of Relational Quantum Mechanics3
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Particle Trajectories3
The Heuristic Power of Theory Classification, the Case of General Relativity3
Evading Quantum Mechanics à la Sudarshan: Quantum-Mechanics-Free Subsystem as a Realization of Koopman-von Neumann Mechanics3
A Case Study for Leibnizian Ideas in Wolfram Model3
Simulation of Afshar’s Double Slit Experiment3
Curved Spacetimes from Quantum Mechanics3
Physical Thinking and the GHZ Theorem3
Contemporary Perspectivism as a Framework of Scientific Inquiry in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond3
A Stochastic Model of Mathematics and Science3
Proposed Experiments to Clarify the Real Nature of the Quantum Waves3
Infrared Acceleration Radiation3
On Efforts to Decouple Early Universe Cosmology and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology3
Tabletop Experiments for Quantum Gravity Are Also Tests of the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics3
Eliminativism and the QCD $$\theta _{\text {YM}}$$-Term: What Gauge Transformations Cannot Do3
Fisher Information and Quantum Origins of the Adiabatic Law3
The Position-Momentum Commutator as a Generalized Function: Resolution of the Apparent Discrepancy Between Continuous and Discrete Bases3
Why the Global Phase is Not Real3
Microscopic Legendre Transform, Canonical Ensemble and Jaynes’ Maximum Entropy Principle3
A Misleading Naming Convention: De Sitter ‘Tachyonic’ Scalar Fields3
On the Boundary of the Cosmos2
Mass-Dependent Minimal Length and Deformed Quantum Mechanics from Heterotic String Theory2
Locality and Probability in Relativistic Quantum Theories and Hidden Variables Quantum Theories2
The Relational Dissolution of the Quantum Measurement Problems2
Epistemic–Pragmatist Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: A Comparative Assessment2
Peeking Inside the Black Hole Philosophical Considerations on the AMPSS Paradox and its Resolution2
Ground State Quantum Vortex Proton Model2
Composite Observers, Empirical Adequacy, and the Combination Problem in Relational Quantum Mechanics: a Reply to Adlam2
Do We Have any Viable Solution to the Measurement Problem?2
An Extendible Spacetime Without Closed Timelike Curves Whose Every Extension Contains Closed Timelike Curves2
Spin and Contextuality in Extended de Broglie-Bohm-Bell Quantum Mechanics2
Contrary Inferences for Classical Histories within the Consistent Histories Formulation of Quantum Theory2
Some Remarks on Recent Formalist Responses to the Hole Argument2
Bayes Keeps Boltzmann Brains at Bay2
Is Quantum Mechanics Merely a Theory for us?2
Simulating Nelsonian Quantum Field Theory2
Complementary Detector and State Preparation Error and Classicality in the Spin-j Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen–Bohm Experiment2
Perspectivism, Concrete and Abstract2
Trans-statistical Behavior of a Multiparticle System in an Ontology of Properties2
Laws, Initial Conditions and Physical Modality: Lessons from Cosmology2
Reply to Hofer-Szabó: The PBR Theorem hasn’t been Saved2
Indeterminacy in Classical Cosmology with Dark Matter2
A Time-Symmetric Soliton Dynamics à la de Broglie2
Fact-nets: Towards a Mathematical Framework for Relational Quantum Mechanics2
Some Remarks on Recent Approaches to Torsionful Non-relativistic Gravity2
Sometimes Size Does Not Matter2
Schwarzschild Black Hole Perturbed by a Force-Free Magnetic Field2
Contextual Unification of Classical and Quantum Physics2
The Extended Wigner’s Friend, Many-and Single-Worlds and Reasoning from Observation2
A (Strictly) Contemporary Perspective on Trans-Planckian Censorship2
An Epistemic Analysis of Time Phenomenon2
Contextual Bohmian Quantum Field Theories: A Hylomorphic Approach to QFT2
Freedom in the Many-Worlds Interpretation2
A New Organization of Quantum Theory Based on Quantum Probability2
On the Quasi-Separability of Atoms and Molecules2
From Unitarity to Irreversibility: The Role of Infinite Tensor Products and Nested Wigner’s Friends2
Critical Multi-Cubic Lattices: A Novel Implication Algebra for Infinite Systems of Qudit Gates2
Presentist Fragmentalism and Quantum Mechanics1
What Should Be the Ontology for the Standard Model?1
Understanding Modified Two-Slit Experiments Using Path Markers1
Relativity: A Matter of Causality1
Bound State Internal Interactions as a Mechanism for Exponential Decay1
Algorithmic Idealism: What Should You Believe to Experience Next?1
On Fermi’s Resolution of the “4/3 Problem” in the Classical Theory of the Electron1
Whence Deep Realism for Everettian Quantum Mechanics?1
Completely Discretized, Finite Quantum Mechanics1
Can a Bohmian be a Rovellian for all practical purposes?1
Quantum and Relativistic Corrections to Maxwell–Boltzmann Ideal Gas Model from a Quantum Phase Space Approach1
Forewords for the Special Issue ‘Pilot-wave and Beyond: Louis de Broglie and David Bohm’s Quest for a Quantum Ontology’1
Spacetime Superoscillations and the Relativistic Quantum Potential1
Aharonov-Bohm Effect for Bound States in a $$\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$$-symmetric Hamiltonian in a Rotating Reference Frame1
The Evolutionary Versus the All-at-Once Picture of Spacetime1
Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Formalism1
Radical Perspectivalism, Locality and Relativity1
Perspectives on the Quantum State1
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: From Hamming to Wigner and Back Again1
On the Nonreality of the PBR Theorem1
Mathematical Formalism for Nonlocal Spontaneous Collapse in Quantum Field Theory1
‘Oumuamua and meta-empirical confirmation1
Emergence of Gravitational Potential and Time Dilation from Non-interacting Systems Coupled to a Global Quantum Clock1
Causal Lie Products of Free Fields and the Emergence of Quantum Field Theory1
The Quantum Theory of the Electromagnetic Field in the Weyl–Wigner Representation as a Local Realistic Model1
States vs. Changes of States: A Reformulation of the Ontic vs. Epistemic Distinction in Quantum Mechanics1
Role of the Electromagnetic Vacuum in the Transition from Classical to Quantum Mechanics1
The Lorentz Transformation in a Fishbowl: A Comment on Cheng and Read’s “Why Not a Sound Postulate?”1
Does Quantum Information Require Additional Structure?1
Bayesianism, Conditional Probability and Laplace Law of Succession in Quantum Mechanics1
Physical Time and Human Time1
Review of Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant, by Gordon Belot1
On the Continuum Fallacy: Is Temperature a Continuous Function?1
A Simple Quantum Model Linked to Decisions1
Spatio-temporally Graded Causality: A Model1
On the Representations of Bell’s Operators in Quantum Mechanics1
Classical Electromagnetic Interaction of a Charge with a Solenoid or Toroid1
Relational Quantum Mechanics is About Facts, Not States: A Reply to Pienaar and Brukner1
Equivalent Gravities and Equivalence Principle: Foundations and Experimental Implications1
Eliminating the Wavefunction from Quantum Dynamics: The Bi-Hamilton–Jacobi Theory, Trajectories and Time Reversal1
Temporal Global Correlations in Time-Symmetric Collapse Models1
Relaxation to Quantum Equilibrium and the Born Rule in Nelson’s Stochastic Dynamics1
Correction: Quantum Mechanics Based on an Extended Least Action Principle and Information Metrics of Vacuum Fluctuations1
Are Fractional Theories and Models Experimentally Corroborable?1
Eliminating Electron Self-repulsion1
On the Meaning of Local Symmetries: Epistemic-ontological Dialectics1
Arrow of Time and Quantum Physics1
Self-Normalizing Path Integrals1
The Disappearance and Reappearance of Potential Energy in Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics1
Traversable-Wormhole Physics in GBD Theory of Modified Gravity1
Reichenbach’s Forgotten Argument1
Supermeasured: Violating Bell-Statistical Independence Without Violating Physical Statistical Independence1
On the Reality of the Quantum State Once Again: A No-Go Theorem for $$\psi$$-Ontic Models1
The Born Rule as a Natural Transformation of Functors1
Quantum Entanglement: An Analysis via the Orthogonality Relation1
Probabilities and Certainties Within a Causally Symmetric Model1
Derivation of Maxwell’s Equations with Magnetic Monopole from Navier-Cauchy Equation with Stress Couple: "A Modern Reinterpretation of the Ether"1
Antirealism in Sheep’s Clothing1
Functors of Actions1
An Alternative to the Born Rule: Spectral Quantization1
Is the Electron Magnetic Moment Unique?1
Evolution via Projection1
On the Meaning of Local Realism1
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