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1 EmQM15: Emergent Quantum Mechanics 2015 Journal of Physics: Conference Series Volume 701 Vienna, Austria October 2015 Editors: Gerhard Grossing Hans-Thomas Elze Johannes Mesa Pascasio Jan Walleczek ISBN: ISSN:

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3 Table of contents Volume 701 EmQM15: Emergent Quantum Mechanics October 2015, Vienna, Austria Accepted papers received: 2 March 2016 Published online: 30 March 2016 Preface Preface Peer review statement Papers Invited lectures Is the World Local or Nonlocal? Towards an Emergent Quantum Mechanics in the 21 st Century Jan Walleczek and Gerhard Grössing pg Bell's theorem and the measurement problem: reducing two mysteries to one? Eric G. Cavalcanti pg. 7

4 Bohmian Conditional Wave Functions (and the status of the quantum state) Travis Norsen pg Can decoherence make quantum theories unfalsifiable? Understanding the quantum-toclassical transition without it X. Oriols pg The super-indeterminism in orthodox quantum mechanics does not implicate the reality of experimenter free will J Walleczek pg Conditions for Lorentz-invariant superluminal information transfer without signaling G Grössing, S Fussy, J Mesa Pascasio and H Schwabl pg Momentum exchange in the electron double-slit experiment Herman Batelaan, Eric Jones, Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang and Roger Bach pg Electron system correlated by the zero-point field: physical explanation for the spinstatistics connection A M Cetto and L de la Peña pg. 77

5 Trading drift and fluctuations in entropic dynamics: quantum dynamics as an emergent universality class Daniel Bartolomeo and Ariel Caticha pg Structure Process, Weak Values and Local Momentum B. J. Hiley pg Weak Values, the Reconstruction Problem, and the Uncertainty Principle Charlyne de Gosson and Maurice de Gosson pg Models of spontaneous wave function collapse: what they are, and how they can be tested Angelo Bassi pg Exploring the propagation of relativistic quantum wavepackets in the trajectory-based formulation Hung-Ming Tsai and Bill Poirier pg How quantization of gravity leads to a discrete space-time Gerard 't Hooft pg Probing a gravitational cat state: Experimental Possibilities M. Derakhshani, C. Anastopoulos and B. L. Hu pg. 155

6 Uncertainty relations and precession of perihelion Fabio Scardigli and Roberto Casadio pg Quantum features of natural cellular automata Hans-Thomas Elze pg Atoms of Spacetime and the Nature of Gravity Thanu Padmanabhan pg Nonlinear Schrödinger equation in foundations: summary of 4 catches Lajos Diósi pg All is Lev Vaidman pg EPR paradox, quantum nonlocality and physical reality M Kupczynski pg. 216

7 Dirac neutrino mass from a neutrino dark matter model for the galaxy cluster Abell 1689 Theodorus Maria Nieuwenhuizen pg. 233 Posters Can a sub-quantum medium be provided by General Relativity? Thomas C Andersen pg Local ontology for a dual-rail qubit Pawel Blasiak pg On Undecidability and the Laws of Physics Erik F G van Heusden pg Contextually in a Peres Mermin square using arbitrary operators A Laversanne-Finot, A Ketterer, M R Barros, S P Walborn, T Coudreau, A Keller and P Milman pg Extending Bell's Theorem: Ruling out Paramater Independent Hidden Variable Theories G J Leegwater pg. 253

8 The weak value of spin for atomic systems V Monachello and R Flack pg About what can be witnessed by a Leggett Garg inequality test: modeling its violation Saulo V Moreira, Arne Keller, Thomas Coudreau and Pérola Milman pg Measuring the weak value of momentum in a double slit atom interferometer J Morley, P D Edmunds and P F Barker pg Regularization of derivatives on non-differentiable points Dimiter Prodanov pg A process algebra model of QED William Sulis pg Classical gravity from certain models of emergent quantum mechanics Ricardo Gallego Torromé pg Quantum mechanics emerging from stochastic dynamics of virtual particles Roumen Tsekov pg. 268

9 Gravity-matter entanglement in Regge quantum gravity Nikola Paunkovi and Marko Vojinovi pg Emergent quantum mechanics without wavefunctions J Mesa Pascasio, S Fussy, H Schwabl and G Grössing pg. 274

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