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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Beyond the Quantum Membrane Paradigm: A Philosophical Analysis of the Structure of Black Holes in Full QG28
Complex-Valued Classical Behavior from the Correspondence Limit of Quantum Mechanics with Two Boundary Conditions24
From Joint to Single-System $$\psi$$-Onticity Without Preparation Independence20
Is Time the Real Line?18
Modeling the Past Hypothesis: A Mechanical Cosmology17
Position as an Independent Variable and the Emergence of the 1/2-Time Fractional Derivative in Quantum Mechanics16
Free Electron Paths from Dirac’s Wave Equation Elucidating Zitterbewegung and Spin14
Einstein Completeness as Categoricity13
Anti-foundationalist Coherentism as an Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics12
Relativistic Hydrodynamic Interpretation of de Broglie Matter Waves12
Spontaneous Collapse Theories and Temporal Primitivism about Time’s Direction12
Perspectives in and on Quantum Theory12
A Pilot-Wave Approach to the Many-Body Problem: Beyond the Small Entanglement Approximation11
Weak Ratios11
A Heptalemma for Quantum Mechanics11
Can the Ontology of Bohmian Mechanics Consists Only in Particles? The PBR Theorem Says No11
The Point of Primitive Ontology11
The Radiation Field, at the Origin of the Quantum Canonical Operators10
Quantum Probability Geometrically Realized in Projective Space10
New Insights on the Quantum-Classical Division in Light of Collapse Models10
Towards a Better Understanding of the Electron’s Magnetic Moment: A Reply to Sanchioni10
Schrödinger Cats and Quantum Complementarity10
Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Fractional Space Time Dimensions9
The Paradox of Classical Reasoning9
Affine Geometry and Relativity9
On the Emergent Origin of the Inertial Mass9
Is the Universe in a Mixed State?9
Quantum Physics, Digital Computers, and Life from a Holistic Perspective9
Are Hilbert Spaces Unphysical? Hardly, My Dear!9
Mathematical Models of Photons8
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?7
A Note on the Electron’s Magnetic Moment7
Relational Properties and Relational Quantum Mechanics7
Aspects of Superdeterminism Made Intuitive7
Learning from Paradoxes7
Do(es the Influence of) Empty Waves Survive in Configuration Space?7
Towards an Information Description of Space-Time7
The Identification of Mean Quantum Potential with Fisher Information Leads to a Strong Uncertainty Relation6
The Non-vanishing Imprint of Gravitational Waves as the Result of Its Nonlinear Evolution in Space6
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
Eliminating the ‘Impossible’: Recent Progress on Local Measurement Theory for Quantum Field Theory5
Relativistic QFT from a Bohmian Perspective: A Proof of Concept5
Non-Relativistic Regime and Topology: Topological Term in the Einstein Equation5
Against Radical Relationalism: in Defense of the Ordinal Structure of Time5
Thermodynamic Signature of Logical Depth in Quantum Circuits5
Prediction and Inference: From Models and Data to Artificial Intelligence5
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
Causal Set Theory is (Strongly) Causal5
Coarse-grained Entropy Balance of the Szilard Engine5
Conservation Laws in Quantum Database Search5
On the Growing Universe of Causal Set Theory—An Order-Type Approach5
A proof that no-signalling implies microcausality in quantum field theory5
The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics5
Objective Collapse Induced by a Macroscopic Object5
Generalized Aharonov-Bohm Effect5
Emergent Phenomena in Nature: A Paradox with Theory?5
Hodology4
Revisiting the Charged Harmonic Oscillator in a Uniform Electric Field4
A Decoherence-Based Approach to the Classical Limit in Bohm’s Theory4
Weak Particle Presence4
Swampland Revisited4
A Diagrammatic Formulation of Local Realism4
Building Spacetime from Effective Interactions Between Quantum Fluctuations4
Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones Toward ψ-Doxastic Interpretations?4
The Bell Experiment and the Limitations of Actors4
Understanding Time Reversal in Quantum Mechanics: A New Derivation4
Convergence to Bohmian Mechanics in a de Broglie-Like Pilot-Wave System4
Avoiding Sparseness in a Flash Ontology4
Phenomenology, Perspectivalism and (Quantum) Physics4
On the Alternatives to the Ideal Mathematical Points-Like Separatedness4
Proposed Experiments for Detecting Contextual Hidden Variables4
On the Role of an Intrinsic Action Uncertainty in Classical Dynamics4
Unitary Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics is a Stronger Physical Postulate than Linear Time Evolution4
Achronotopic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics4
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
The estimation of the mean value of copies of uncertain positions and its relation to the basic structure of quantum mechanics4
What Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics?4
Proposed Experiments to Clarify the Real Nature of the Quantum Waves3
On perspectivism and relationalism of Relational Quantum Mechanics3
A Note on Penrose’s Spin-Geometry Theorem and the Geometry of ‘Empirical Quantum Angles’3
An Extendible Spacetime Without Closed Timelike Curves Whose Every Extension Contains Closed Timelike Curves3
Microscopic Legendre Transform, Canonical Ensemble and Jaynes’ Maximum Entropy Principle3
A Misleading Naming Convention: De Sitter ‘Tachyonic’ Scalar Fields3
Plane Wave Solutions to a Proposed “Equation of Everything”3
Tabletop Experiments for Quantum Gravity Are Also Tests of the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics3
Black Hole Entropy from Non-dirichlet Sectors, and a Bounce Solution3
A Viable Varying Speed of Light Model in the RW Metric3
Quantum Mereology and Subsystems from the Spectrum3
Life, the Multiverse, and Fine-Tuning3
Epistemic Uncertainty from an Averaged Hamilton–Jacobi Formalism3
A Case Study for Leibnizian Ideas in Wolfram Model3
Curved Spacetimes from Quantum Mechanics3
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
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Particle Trajectories3
The Determinacy Problem in Quantum Mechanics3
Does Locality Imply Reality of the Wave Function? Hardy’s Theorem Revisited3
Comment on a No-Go Theorem for $$\psi $$-Ontic Models3
Relational Quantum Mechanics and Contextuality3
Fisher Information and Quantum Origins of the Adiabatic Law3
On Efforts to Decouple Early Universe Cosmology and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology3
The Decoherent Arrow of Time and the Entanglement Past Hypothesis3
Eliminativism and the QCD $$\theta _{\text {YM}}$$-Term: What Gauge Transformations Cannot Do3
The Heuristic Power of Theory Classification, the Case of General Relativity3
Mass-Dependent Minimal Length and Deformed Quantum Mechanics from Heterotic String Theory3
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
The Position-Momentum Commutator as a Generalized Function: Resolution of the Apparent Discrepancy Between Continuous and Discrete Bases3
Evading Quantum Mechanics à la Sudarshan: Quantum-Mechanics-Free Subsystem as a Realization of Koopman-von Neumann Mechanics3
Infrared Acceleration Radiation3
Simulation of Afshar’s Double Slit Experiment3
An Operational Notion of Classicality Based on Physical Principles3
An Epistemic Analysis of Time Phenomenon2
Mathematical Formalism for Nonlocal Spontaneous Collapse in Quantum Field Theory2
Ground State Quantum Vortex Proton Model2
Composite Observers, Empirical Adequacy, and the Combination Problem in Relational Quantum Mechanics: a Reply to Adlam2
Spin and Contextuality in Extended de Broglie-Bohm-Bell Quantum Mechanics2
Some Remarks on Recent Approaches to Torsionful Non-relativistic Gravity2
Critical Multi-Cubic Lattices: A Novel Implication Algebra for Infinite Systems of Qudit Gates2
A Time-Symmetric Soliton Dynamics à la de Broglie2
Sometimes Size Does Not Matter2
A New Organization of Quantum Theory Based on Quantum Probability2
Simulating Nelsonian Quantum Field Theory2
Complementary Detector and State Preparation Error and Classicality in the Spin-j Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen–Bohm Experiment2
The Extended Wigner’s Friend, Many-and Single-Worlds and Reasoning from Observation2
The Relational Dissolution of the Quantum Measurement Problems2
Peeking Inside the Black Hole Philosophical Considerations on the AMPSS Paradox and its Resolution2
Aharonov-Bohm Effect for Bound States in a $$\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$$-symmetric Hamiltonian in a Rotating Reference Frame2
Laws, Initial Conditions and Physical Modality: Lessons from Cosmology2
Reply to Hofer-Szabó: The PBR Theorem hasn’t been Saved2
Bayes Keeps Boltzmann Brains at Bay2
Indeterminacy in Classical Cosmology with Dark Matter2
Fact-nets: Towards a Mathematical Framework for Relational Quantum Mechanics2
From Unitarity to Irreversibility: The Role of Infinite Tensor Products and Nested Wigner’s Friends2
On the Boundary of the Cosmos2
Contextual Unification of Classical and Quantum Physics2
Why the Global Phase is Not Real2
Epistemic–Pragmatist Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: A Comparative Assessment2
Perspectivism, Concrete and Abstract2
Trans-statistical Behavior of a Multiparticle System in an Ontology of Properties2
Do We Have any Viable Solution to the Measurement Problem?2
Freedom in the Many-Worlds Interpretation2
Contextual Bohmian Quantum Field Theories: A Hylomorphic Approach to QFT2
Schwarzschild Black Hole Perturbed by a Force-Free Magnetic Field2
On the Quasi-Separability of Atoms and Molecules2
Some Remarks on Recent Formalist Responses to the Hole Argument2
Contrary Inferences for Classical Histories within the Consistent Histories Formulation of Quantum Theory2
Is Quantum Mechanics Merely a Theory for us?2
From EPR-Schrödinger Paradox to Nonlocality Based on Perfect Correlations2
Locality and Probability in Relativistic Quantum Theories and Hidden Variables Quantum Theories2
A (Strictly) Contemporary Perspective on Trans-Planckian Censorship2
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: From Hamming to Wigner and Back Again1
Preparation in Bohmian Mechanics1
Quantum and Relativistic Corrections to Maxwell–Boltzmann Ideal Gas Model from a Quantum Phase Space Approach1
Functors of Actions1
Correction: Quantum Mechanics Based on an Extended Least Action Principle and Information Metrics of Vacuum Fluctuations1
Relational Quantum Mechanics is About Facts, Not States: A Reply to Pienaar and Brukner1
Presentist Fragmentalism and Quantum Mechanics1
The Quantum Theory of the Electromagnetic Field in the Weyl–Wigner Representation as a Local Realistic Model1
‘Oumuamua and meta-empirical confirmation1
Traversable-Wormhole Physics in GBD Theory of Modified Gravity1
The Disappearance and Reappearance of Potential Energy in Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics1
Self-Normalizing Path Integrals1
Classical Electromagnetic Interaction of a Charge with a Solenoid or Toroid1
Spatio-temporally Graded Causality: A Model1
Antirealism in Sheep’s Clothing1
An Alternative to the Born Rule: Spectral Quantization1
Evolution via Projection1
On the Reality of the Quantum State Once Again: A No-Go Theorem for $$\psi$$-Ontic Models1
Relaxation to Quantum Equilibrium and the Born Rule in Nelson’s Stochastic Dynamics1
Eliminating the Wavefunction from Quantum Dynamics: The Bi-Hamilton–Jacobi Theory, Trajectories and Time Reversal1
The Lorentz Transformation in a Fishbowl: A Comment on Cheng and Read’s “Why Not a Sound Postulate?”1
What Should Be the Ontology for the Standard Model?1
Emergence of Gravitational Potential and Time Dilation from Non-interacting Systems Coupled to a Global Quantum Clock1
Bound State Internal Interactions as a Mechanism for Exponential Decay1
Radical Perspectivalism, Locality and Relativity1
Role of the Electromagnetic Vacuum in the Transition from Classical to Quantum Mechanics1
A Simple Quantum Model Linked to Decisions1
From Bohm’s Vision of Quantum Processes to Quantum Field Theory ... to the Transactional Approach. Variations on the Theme1
Arrow of Time and Quantum Physics1
On the Representations of Bell’s Operators in Quantum Mechanics1
Can a Bohmian be a Rovellian for all practical purposes?1
Is the Electron Magnetic Moment Unique?1
Whence Deep Realism for Everettian Quantum Mechanics?1
Mechanical Model of Maxwell’s Equations and of Lorentz Transformations1
Probabilities and Certainties Within a Causally Symmetric Model1
Perspectives on the Quantum State1
On the Nonreality of the PBR Theorem1
Bayesianism, Conditional Probability and Laplace Law of Succession in Quantum Mechanics1
Does Quantum Information Require Additional Structure?1
Review of Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant, by Gordon Belot1
Understanding Modified Two-Slit Experiments Using Path Markers1
Completely Discretized, Finite Quantum Mechanics1
On the Meaning of Local Symmetries: Epistemic-ontological Dialectics1
The Evolutionary Versus the All-at-Once Picture of Spacetime1
Are Fractional Theories and Models Experimentally Corroborable?1
States vs. Changes of States: A Reformulation of the Ontic vs. Epistemic Distinction in Quantum Mechanics1
Quantum Entanglement: An Analysis via the Orthogonality Relation1
Supermeasured: Violating Bell-Statistical Independence Without Violating Physical Statistical Independence1
Derivation of Maxwell’s Equations with Magnetic Monopole from Navier-Cauchy Equation with Stress Couple: "A Modern Reinterpretation of the Ether"1
On the Continuum Fallacy: Is Temperature a Continuous Function?1
On Fermi’s Resolution of the “4/3 Problem” in the Classical Theory of the Electron1
Spacetime Superoscillations and the Relativistic Quantum Potential1
Physical Time and Human Time1
Forewords for the Special Issue ‘Pilot-wave and Beyond: Louis de Broglie and David Bohm’s Quest for a Quantum Ontology’1
On the Meaning of Local Realism1
Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Formalism1
Equivalent Gravities and Equivalence Principle: Foundations and Experimental Implications1
Temporal Global Correlations in Time-Symmetric Collapse Models1
Reichenbach’s Forgotten Argument1
The Born Rule as a Natural Transformation of Functors1
Algorithmic Idealism: What Should You Believe to Experience Next?1
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