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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Modeling the Past Hypothesis: A Mechanical Cosmology19
Is Time the Real Line?19
From Joint to Single-System $$\psi$$-Onticity Without Preparation Independence16
Free Electron Paths from Dirac’s Wave Equation Elucidating Zitterbewegung and Spin15
Einstein Completeness as Categoricity15
Position as an Independent Variable and the Emergence of the 1/2-Time Fractional Derivative in Quantum Mechanics15
Beyond the Quantum Membrane Paradigm: A Philosophical Analysis of the Structure of Black Holes in Full QG15
Relativistic Hydrodynamic Interpretation of de Broglie Matter Waves13
Spontaneous Collapse Theories and Temporal Primitivism about Time’s Direction13
Perspectives in and on Quantum Theory13
Anti-foundationalist Coherentism as an Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics13
A Heptalemma for Quantum Mechanics12
The Point of Primitive Ontology12
Weak Ratios12
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
Affine Geometry and Relativity10
The Radiation Field, at the Origin of the Quantum Canonical Operators10
Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Fractional Space Time Dimensions10
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
Quantum Probability Geometrically Realized in Projective Space10
Quantum Interference and the Limits of Separability9
Schrödinger Cats and Quantum Complementarity9
Quantum Physics, Digital Computers, and Life from a Holistic Perspective9
On the Emergent Origin of the Inertial Mass9
Are Hilbert Spaces Unphysical? Hardly, My Dear!8
From Hamilton-Jacobi to Bohm: Why the Wave Function Isn’t Just Another Action8
Is the Universe in a Mixed State?8
Mathematical Models of Photons8
Relativistic Corrections to the Quantization of a Classical Spinning Particle with Constant Electric and Magnetic Fields7
Do(es the Influence of) Empty Waves Survive in Configuration Space?7
Has the Problem of the Motion of a Heavy Symmetric Top been Solved in Quadratures?7
Relational Properties and Relational Quantum Mechanics6
Energy in Newtonian Gravity6
A Note on the Electron’s Magnetic Moment6
Learning from Paradoxes6
Aspects of Superdeterminism Made Intuitive6
The Non-vanishing Imprint of Gravitational Waves as the Result of Its Nonlinear Evolution in Space6
The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics5
A proof that no-signalling implies microcausality in quantum field theory5
Generalized Aharonov-Bohm Effect5
The Identification of Mean Quantum Potential with Fisher Information Leads to a Strong Uncertainty Relation5
Causal Set Theory is (Strongly) Causal5
On the Growing Universe of Causal Set Theory—An Order-Type Approach5
Coarse-grained Entropy Balance of the Szilard Engine5
Eliminating the ‘Impossible’: Recent Progress on Local Measurement Theory for Quantum Field Theory5
Prediction and Inference: From Models and Data to Artificial Intelligence5
Against Radical Relationalism: in Defense of the Ordinal Structure of Time5
Emergent Phenomena in Nature: A Paradox with Theory?5
Objective Collapse Induced by a Macroscopic Object5
From Global Time to Local Physics5
Non-Relativistic Regime and Topology: Topological Term in the Einstein Equation5
Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones Toward ψ-Doxastic Interpretations?4
On the Role of an Intrinsic Action Uncertainty in Classical Dynamics4
Conservation Laws in Quantum Database Search4
Building Spacetime from Effective Interactions Between Quantum Fluctuations4
Avoiding Sparseness in a Flash Ontology4
A Diagrammatic Formulation of Local Realism4
Achronotopic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics4
Proposed Experiments for Detecting Contextual Hidden Variables4
Thermodynamic Signature of Logical Depth in Quantum Circuits4
Stochastic Electric Dipole Oscillator in a Nonuniform, Static Electric Field, used to Derive the Classical Electromagnetic Zero-point Radiation Spectrum4
Convergence to Bohmian Mechanics in a de Broglie-Like Pilot-Wave System4
A Decoherence-Based Approach to the Classical Limit in Bohm’s Theory4
Correction to Article “Free Electron Paths from Dirac’s Wave Equation Elucidating Zitterbewegung and Spin” in Foundations of Physics (2026) 56:104
Understanding Time Reversal in Quantum Mechanics: A New Derivation4
Unitary Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics is a Stronger Physical Postulate than Linear Time Evolution4
Hodology4
The estimation of the mean value of copies of uncertain positions and its relation to the basic structure of quantum mechanics4
Beyond the Born Rule in Quantum Gravity4
On the Alternatives to the Ideal Mathematical Points-Like Separatedness4
The Intrinsic and Extrinsic Hierarchy Problems3
Quantum Mereology and Subsystems from the Spectrum3
On perspectivism and relationalism of Relational Quantum Mechanics3
The Heuristic Power of Theory Classification, the Case of General Relativity3
What Price Fiber Bundle Substantivalism? On How to Avoid Holes in Fibers3
An Operational Notion of Classicality Based on Physical Principles3
Relational Quantum Mechanics: Ozawa’s Intersubjectivity Theorem as Justification of the Postulate on Internally Consistent Descriptions3
Comment on a No-Go Theorem for $$\psi $$-Ontic Models3
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Particle Trajectories3
A Case Study for Leibnizian Ideas in Wolfram Model3
The Position-Momentum Commutator as a Generalized Function: Resolution of the Apparent Discrepancy Between Continuous and Discrete Bases3
Non-relativistic Twistor Theory: Newtonian Limits and Gravitationally Induced Collapse3
Life, the Multiverse, and Fine-Tuning3
On Efforts to Decouple Early Universe Cosmology and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology3
Proposed Experiments to Clarify the Real Nature of the Quantum Waves3
Weak Particle Presence3
Does Locality Imply Reality of the Wave Function? Hardy’s Theorem Revisited3
A Stochastic Model of Mathematics and Science3
Contemporary Perspectivism as a Framework of Scientific Inquiry in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond3
Eliminativism and the QCD $$\theta _{\text {YM}}$$-Term: What Gauge Transformations Cannot Do3
A Viable Varying Speed of Light Model in the RW Metric3
The Determinacy Problem in Quantum Mechanics3
A Note on Penrose’s Spin-Geometry Theorem and the Geometry of ‘Empirical Quantum Angles’3
Relational Quantum Mechanics and Contextuality3
The Decoherent Arrow of Time and the Entanglement Past Hypothesis3
Black Hole Entropy from Non-dirichlet Sectors, and a Bounce Solution3
Revisiting the Charged Harmonic Oscillator in a Uniform Electric Field3
Phenomenology, Perspectivalism and (Quantum) Physics3
Plane Wave Solutions to a Proposed “Equation of Everything”3
Infrared Acceleration Radiation3
Tabletop Experiments for Quantum Gravity Are Also Tests of the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics3
Fisher Information and Quantum Origins of the Adiabatic Law3
Curved Spacetimes from Quantum Mechanics3
Mass-Dependent Minimal Length and Deformed Quantum Mechanics from Heterotic String Theory2
Peeking Inside the Black Hole Philosophical Considerations on the AMPSS Paradox and its Resolution2
Contextual Unification of Classical and Quantum Physics2
On the Quasi-Separability of Atoms and Molecules2
Physical Thinking and the GHZ Theorem2
Why the Global Phase is Not Real2
Evading Quantum Mechanics à la Sudarshan: Quantum-Mechanics-Free Subsystem as a Realization of Koopman-von Neumann Mechanics2
Is Quantum Mechanics Merely a Theory for us?2
Some Remarks on Recent Formalist Responses to the Hole Argument2
Freedom in the Many-Worlds Interpretation2
A New Organization of Quantum Theory Based on Quantum Probability2
Ground State Quantum Vortex Proton Model2
Locality and Probability in Relativistic Quantum Theories and Hidden Variables Quantum Theories2
From Unitarity to Irreversibility: The Role of Infinite Tensor Products and Nested Wigner’s Friends2
Epistemic–Pragmatist Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics: A Comparative Assessment2
Perspectivism, Concrete and Abstract2
A Misleading Naming Convention: De Sitter ‘Tachyonic’ Scalar Fields2
The Relational Dissolution of the Quantum Measurement Problems2
Is Superluminal Signaling Possible in Collapse Theories of Quantum Mechanics?2
Sometimes Size Does Not Matter2
Fact-nets: Towards a Mathematical Framework for Relational Quantum Mechanics2
Critical Multi-Cubic Lattices: A Novel Implication Algebra for Infinite Systems of Qudit Gates2
Composite Observers, Empirical Adequacy, and the Combination Problem in Relational Quantum Mechanics: a Reply to Adlam2
Some Remarks on Recent Approaches to Torsionful Non-relativistic Gravity2
Spin and Contextuality in Extended de Broglie-Bohm-Bell Quantum Mechanics2
An Extendible Spacetime Without Closed Timelike Curves Whose Every Extension Contains Closed Timelike Curves2
Contrary Inferences for Classical Histories within the Consistent Histories Formulation of Quantum Theory2
The Extended Wigner’s Friend, Many-and Single-Worlds and Reasoning from Observation2
Bayes Keeps Boltzmann Brains at Bay2
Simulating Nelsonian Quantum Field Theory2
Complementary Detector and State Preparation Error and Classicality in the Spin-j Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen–Bohm Experiment2
Microscopic Legendre Transform, Canonical Ensemble and Jaynes’ Maximum Entropy Principle2
Rescher’s Aporetics and a Road to the Voigt and Lorentz Transformations2
Schwarzschild Black Hole Perturbed by a Force-Free Magnetic Field2
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
On the Boundary of the Cosmos2
A Time-Symmetric Soliton Dynamics à la de Broglie2
On the Meaning of Local Realism1
A Set-Theoretic Analysis of the Black Hole Entropy Puzzle1
Aharonov-Bohm Effect for Bound States in a $$\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$$-symmetric Hamiltonian in a Rotating Reference Frame1
Relativity: A Matter of Causality1
Classical Electromagnetic Interaction of a Charge with a Solenoid or Toroid1
The Quantum Theory of the Electromagnetic Field in the Weyl–Wigner Representation as a Local Realistic Model1
An Alternative to the Born Rule: Spectral Quantization1
On the Meaning of Local Symmetries: Epistemic-ontological Dialectics1
The Lorentz Transformation in a Fishbowl: A Comment on Cheng and Read’s “Why Not a Sound Postulate?”1
Temporal Global Correlations in Time-Symmetric Collapse Models1
Bayesianism, Conditional Probability and Laplace Law of Succession in Quantum Mechanics1
Do We Have any Viable Solution to the Measurement Problem?1
Quantum Entanglement: An Analysis via the Orthogonality Relation1
Relaxation to Quantum Equilibrium and the Born Rule in Nelson’s Stochastic Dynamics1
Radical Perspectivalism, Locality and Relativity1
Forewords for the Special Issue ‘Pilot-wave and Beyond: Louis de Broglie and David Bohm’s Quest for a Quantum Ontology’1
Eliminating the Wavefunction from Quantum Dynamics: The Bi-Hamilton–Jacobi Theory, Trajectories and Time Reversal1
Equivalent Gravities and Equivalence Principle: Foundations and Experimental Implications1
On the Reality of the Quantum State Once Again: A No-Go Theorem for $$\psi$$-Ontic Models1
A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Dealing with Uncertainty in Quantum Mechanics1
Traversable-Wormhole Physics in GBD Theory of Modified Gravity1
Spacetime Superoscillations and the Relativistic Quantum Potential1
Are Fractional Theories and Models Experimentally Corroborable?1
Stern–Gerlach, EPRB and Bell Inequalities: An Analysis Using the Quantum Hamilton Equations of Stochastic Mechanics1
Antirealism in Sheep’s Clothing1
Eliminating Electron Self-repulsion1
Perspectives on the Quantum State1
Bound State Internal Interactions as a Mechanism for Exponential Decay1
On the Nonreality of the PBR Theorem1
Quantum and Relativistic Corrections to Maxwell–Boltzmann Ideal Gas Model from a Quantum Phase Space Approach1
The Disappearance and Reappearance of Potential Energy in Classical and Quantum Electrodynamics1
Contextual Bohmian Quantum Field Theories: A Hylomorphic Approach to QFT1
A Simple Quantum Model Linked to Decisions1
Does Quantum Information Require Additional Structure?1
The Evolutionary Versus the All-at-Once Picture of Spacetime1
Functors of Actions1
Self-Normalizing Path Integrals1
Completely Discretized, Finite Quantum Mechanics1
Understanding Modified Two-Slit Experiments Using Path Markers1
Reichenbach’s Forgotten Argument1
Whence Deep Realism for Everettian Quantum Mechanics?1
Can a Bohmian be a Rovellian for all practical purposes?1
What Should Be the Ontology for the Standard Model?1
The Born Rule as a Natural Transformation of Functors1
Causal Lie Products of Free Fields and the Emergence of Quantum Field Theory1
Evolution via Projection1
Arrow of Time and Quantum Physics1
On the Tensorial Structure of General Covariant Quantum Systems1
States vs. Changes of States: A Reformulation of the Ontic vs. Epistemic Distinction in Quantum Mechanics1
Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Formalism1
On Fermi’s Resolution of the “4/3 Problem” in the Classical Theory of the Electron1
Algorithmic Idealism: What Should You Believe to Experience Next?1
Mathematical Formalism for Nonlocal Spontaneous Collapse in Quantum Field Theory1
Is the Electron Magnetic Moment Unique?1
Spatio-temporally Graded Causality: A Model1
On the Representations of Bell’s Operators in Quantum Mechanics1
Emergence of Gravitational Potential and Time Dilation from Non-interacting Systems Coupled to a Global Quantum Clock1
Derivation of Maxwell’s Equations with Magnetic Monopole from Navier-Cauchy Equation with Stress Couple: "A Modern Reinterpretation of the Ether"1
Physical Time and Human Time1
Review of Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant, by Gordon Belot1
Correction: Quantum Mechanics Based on an Extended Least Action Principle and Information Metrics of Vacuum Fluctuations1
On the Continuum Fallacy: Is Temperature a Continuous Function?1
Presentist Fragmentalism and Quantum Mechanics1
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