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Papers

(The TQCC of Foundations of Physics is 3. 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.)

Article	Citations
Beyond the Quantum Membrane Paradigm: A Philosophical Analysis of the Structure of Black Holes in Full QG	28
Complex-Valued Classical Behavior from the Correspondence Limit of Quantum Mechanics with Two Boundary Conditions	24
From Joint to Single-System $$\psi$$-Onticity Without Preparation Independence	20
Is Time the Real Line?	18
Modeling the Past Hypothesis: A Mechanical Cosmology	17
Position as an Independent Variable and the Emergence of the 1/2-Time Fractional Derivative in Quantum Mechanics	16
Free Electron Paths from Dirac’s Wave Equation Elucidating Zitterbewegung and Spin	14
Einstein Completeness as Categoricity	13
Anti-foundationalist Coherentism as an Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics	12
Relativistic Hydrodynamic Interpretation of de Broglie Matter Waves	12
Spontaneous Collapse Theories and Temporal Primitivism about Time’s Direction	12
Perspectives in and on Quantum Theory	12
The Point of Primitive Ontology	11
A Pilot-Wave Approach to the Many-Body Problem: Beyond the Small Entanglement Approximation	11
Weak Ratios	11
A Heptalemma for Quantum Mechanics	11
Can the Ontology of Bohmian Mechanics Consists Only in Particles? The PBR Theorem Says No	11
Schrödinger Cats and Quantum Complementarity	10
The Radiation Field, at the Origin of the Quantum Canonical Operators	10
Quantum Probability Geometrically Realized in Projective Space	10
New Insights on the Quantum-Classical Division in Light of Collapse Models	10
Towards a Better Understanding of the Electron’s Magnetic Moment: A Reply to Sanchioni	10
Propagation of Electromagnetic Waves in Fractional Space Time Dimensions	9
The Paradox of Classical Reasoning	9
Affine Geometry and Relativity	9

On the Emergent Origin of the Inertial Mass	9
Is the Universe in a Mixed State?	9
Quantum Physics, Digital Computers, and Life from a Holistic Perspective	9
Are Hilbert Spaces Unphysical? Hardly, My Dear!	9
Mathematical Models of Photons	8
Relativistic Corrections to the Quantization of a Classical Spinning Particle with Constant Electric and Magnetic Fields	8
From Hamilton-Jacobi to Bohm: Why the Wave Function Isn’t Just Another Action	8
Has the Problem of the Motion of a Heavy Symmetric Top been Solved in Quadratures?	7
A Note on the Electron’s Magnetic Moment	7
Relational Properties and Relational Quantum Mechanics	7
Aspects of Superdeterminism Made Intuitive	7
Learning from Paradoxes	7
Do(es the Influence of) Empty Waves Survive in Configuration Space?	7
Towards an Information Description of Space-Time	7
The Identification of Mean Quantum Potential with Fisher Information Leads to a Strong Uncertainty Relation	6
The Non-vanishing Imprint of Gravitational Waves as the Result of Its Nonlinear Evolution in Space	6
How Different Interpretations of Quantum Mechanics can Enrich Each Other: The Case of the Relational Quantum Mechanics and the Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation	6
Energy in Newtonian Gravity	6
Generalized Aharonov-Bohm Effect	5
Emergent Phenomena in Nature: A Paradox with Theory?	5
Eliminating the ‘Impossible’: Recent Progress on Local Measurement Theory for Quantum Field Theory	5
Relativistic QFT from a Bohmian Perspective: A Proof of Concept	5
Non-Relativistic Regime and Topology: Topological Term in the Einstein Equation	5
Against Radical Relationalism: in Defense of the Ordinal Structure of Time	5
Thermodynamic Signature of Logical Depth in Quantum Circuits	5
Prediction and Inference: From Models and Data to Artificial Intelligence	5
What is It Like to be a Relativistic GRW Theory? Or: Quantum Mechanics and Relativity, Still in Conflict After All These Years	5
From Global Time to Local Physics	5
Causal Set Theory is (Strongly) Causal	5
Coarse-grained Entropy Balance of the Szilard Engine	5
Conservation Laws in Quantum Database Search	5
On the Growing Universe of Causal Set Theory—An Order-Type Approach	5
A proof that no-signalling implies microcausality in quantum field theory	5
The Open Past in an Indeterministic Physics	5
Objective Collapse Induced by a Macroscopic Object	5
What Ontology for Relational Quantum Mechanics?	4
Hodology	4
Revisiting the Charged Harmonic Oscillator in a Uniform Electric Field	4
A Decoherence-Based Approach to the Classical Limit in Bohm’s Theory	4
Weak Particle Presence	4
Swampland Revisited	4
A Diagrammatic Formulation of Local Realism	4
Building Spacetime from Effective Interactions Between Quantum Fluctuations	4
Quantum Reconstructions as Stepping Stones Toward ψ-Doxastic Interpretations?	4
The Bell Experiment and the Limitations of Actors	4
Understanding Time Reversal in Quantum Mechanics: A New Derivation	4
Convergence to Bohmian Mechanics in a de Broglie-Like Pilot-Wave System	4
Avoiding Sparseness in a Flash Ontology	4
Phenomenology, Perspectivalism and (Quantum) Physics	4
On the Alternatives to the Ideal Mathematical Points-Like Separatedness	4

Proposed Experiments for Detecting Contextual Hidden Variables	4
On the Role of an Intrinsic Action Uncertainty in Classical Dynamics	4
Unitary Time Evolution in Quantum Mechanics is a Stronger Physical Postulate than Linear Time Evolution	4
Achronotopic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics	4
Correction to Article “Free Electron Paths from Dirac’s Wave Equation Elucidating Zitterbewegung and Spin” in Foundations of Physics (2026) 56:10	4
Beyond the Born Rule in Quantum Gravity	4
The estimation of the mean value of copies of uncertain positions and its relation to the basic structure of quantum mechanics	4
Simulation of Afshar’s Double Slit Experiment	3
Plane Wave Solutions to a Proposed “Equation of Everything”	3
Black Hole Entropy from Non-dirichlet Sectors, and a Bounce Solution	3
Quantum Mereology and Subsystems from the Spectrum	3
Life, the Multiverse, and Fine-Tuning	3
Epistemic Uncertainty from an Averaged Hamilton–Jacobi Formalism	3
A Case Study for Leibnizian Ideas in Wolfram Model	3
Curved Spacetimes from Quantum Mechanics	3
Is Superluminal Signaling Possible in Collapse Theories of Quantum Mechanics?	3
Tabletop Experiments for Quantum Gravity Are Also Tests of the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics	3
Relational Quantum Mechanics: Ozawa’s Intersubjectivity Theorem as Justification of the Postulate on Internally Consistent Descriptions	3
A Viable Varying Speed of Light Model in the RW Metric	3
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Particle Trajectories	3
The Determinacy Problem in Quantum Mechanics	3
Does Locality Imply Reality of the Wave Function? Hardy’s Theorem Revisited	3
Relational Quantum Mechanics and Contextuality	3
On Efforts to Decouple Early Universe Cosmology and Quantum Gravity Phenomenology	3
The Decoherent Arrow of Time and the Entanglement Past Hypothesis	3
Eliminativism and the QCD $$\theta _{\text {YM}}$$-Term: What Gauge Transformations Cannot Do	3
The Heuristic Power of Theory Classification, the Case of General Relativity	3
Mass-Dependent Minimal Length and Deformed Quantum Mechanics from Heterotic String Theory	3
Physical Thinking and the GHZ Theorem	3
Comment on a No-Go Theorem for $$\psi $$-Ontic Models	3
Contemporary Perspectivism as a Framework of Scientific Inquiry in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond	3
Fisher Information and Quantum Origins of the Adiabatic Law	3
A Stochastic Model of Mathematics and Science	3
The Position-Momentum Commutator as a Generalized Function: Resolution of the Apparent Discrepancy Between Continuous and Discrete Bases	3
Infrared Acceleration Radiation	3
An Operational Notion of Classicality Based on Physical Principles	3
Proposed Experiments to Clarify the Real Nature of the Quantum Waves	3
On perspectivism and relationalism of Relational Quantum Mechanics	3
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 Curves	3
Microscopic Legendre Transform, Canonical Ensemble and Jaynes’ Maximum Entropy Principle	3
Evading Quantum Mechanics à la Sudarshan: Quantum-Mechanics-Free Subsystem as a Realization of Koopman-von Neumann Mechanics	3
A Misleading Naming Convention: De Sitter ‘Tachyonic’ Scalar Fields	3