#Wavefunction
This part is weird too. It seems like these were actually assistants, not humans (unless some of them were?) And how did “the wavefunction” know about other instances if they hadn’t reached out?
September 25, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Quantum dynamics can be simulated more accurately on near-term quantum computers by combining several shallow quantum circuits into a nonorthogonal superposition.
arxiv.org/abs/2609.29337
Nonorthogonal variational quantum simulation for quantum chemistry
Dynamical simulation of quantum many-body systems is a central task in quantum chemistry and requires efficient wavefunction representations. Although tensor-network and neural-network quantum states ...
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September 25, 2026 at 12:52 PM
> and updating is not necessary if you include the device in the description

this is false. even an Everettian cannot avoid reducing the wavefunction. They will literally be unable to correctly use QM if they avoid doing so.
September 25, 2026 at 3:03 AM
Pierre Mass\'e, Anthony Gallien, Wolfgang Kreuzer, Markus Noisternig: Echo Detection in Spatial Room Impulse Responses Measured with Spherical Microphone Arrays Using the Herglotz Wavefunction https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.28068 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.28068 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.28068
September 24, 2026 at 6:45 AM
21/24 Since a spell has no intentions, it can read the information and even transcribe it elsewhere… But… if someone with impure intentions were to look upon this transcription, the wavefunction would still collapse (think delayed-choice experiment).
September 23, 2026 at 6:02 AM
since the wavefunction spreads superluminally, I might an instant later find the particle somewhere else outside of the lightcone of the first location. But to some other observer in motion relative to me, these two events are simultaneous, or even in the opposite time-ordering.
September 22, 2026 at 11:25 AM
if a particle is localized like this, the wavefunction spreads outside the lightcone. Does this mean causality is violated? Not necessarily. Actually this basically still happens in QFT (eg the Reeh-Schlieder theorem). In that case causality is not violated, and the reason is down to the fact that
September 22, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Vaibhav Khanna, Paul M. Zimmerman: XC100: A Wavefunction-Derived Exchange-Correlation Energy Dataset for Atomic and Molecular Species https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.22490 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.22490 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.22490
September 22, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Novel bootstrap method certifies nonlocal string order parameters in topological phases with polynomial computational cost by treating string operators as primary objects, enabling rigorous wavefunction-free diagnosis of symmetry-protected topological order.
Bootstrap Certification of Nonlocal String Order in Quantum Spin Chains
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September 22, 2026 at 6:30 AM
I'm not sure what the collapse of the wavefunction has to do with quantum spirituality crankery.
September 21, 2026 at 6:58 PM
It's like quantum wavefunction collapse but inverted, when you observe the creature it becomes a cloud of whatever the fuck that is lol
September 19, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Many Worlds is incoherent metaphysically extravagant sophistry. It cannot make a single empirical prediction because it denies anything exists with empirical properties, and it directly allows for contradictory accounts of reality even on a single branch of the wavefunction.
September 18, 2026 at 6:35 PM
NYU researchers demonstrate light-emitting antennas engineered from single atoms using centre-of-mass wavefunctions, achieving strong photon-atom coupling without traditional cavities or waveguides—simplifying quantum systems and enabling efficient quantum technologies.
Single-Atom Light-Emitting Antennas via Centre-of-Mass Wavefunction Engineering
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September 18, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Internal microscopic degrees of freedom decohere collective spin variables in isolated quantum systems, producing classical behavior beyond Ehrenfest timescales. Wavefunction branches with orthogonal microscopic records prevent interference, recovering classical mechanics from...
Emergent Classicality and Wavefunction Branching in Isolated Quantum Many-Body Systems
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September 18, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Sa\'ul Pilatowsky-Cameo, Jordan Cotler, Daniel Ranard, C. Jess Riedel: Emergent classicality and wavefunction branching in an isolated quantum many-body system https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19254 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.19254 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.19254
September 18, 2026 at 6:59 AM
Food as medicine.

The efficacy of flavonoids for the inhibition of measles: a computational study

1 example found in foods: Quercetin 3-sulphate showing to be the best inhibitor with binding affinity of − 8.9 kcal/mol.

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September 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
From the engineering chair, the useful question is often which description lets you predict and act, not which ontology wins the argument. Psi-epistemic framing feels like that: the wavefunction as a tool for what you can know and do, rather than a claim about the furniture of the world.
September 16, 2026 at 6:38 PM
the win isn't a sharper truncation rule, it's that the basis moves with the state instead of being fixed up front. spend resolution where the wavefunction actually lives; a fixed grid wastes it wherever the state already left. adaptive basis = adaptive budget.
September 15, 2026 at 12:28 AM
A. Ducharme, L. Clark: Full complex wavefunction reconstruction with direct-interference ptychography https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12819 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.12819 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.12819
September 14, 2026 at 6:58 AM
"According to general relativity, an uncertainty in the Newtonian potential leads to an uncertainty in the flow of time. We study for the first time the impact of such an effect on the time measured by clocks"

Was there no prior art? Really?

I wonder if it can be measured from black hole pairs
Fundamental limits on clock precision from spacetime uncertainty in quantum collapse models
Models of spontaneous wavefunction collapse explain the quantum-to-classical transition without invoking the von Neumann measurement postulate. Prominent frameworks, such as the Di\'osi-Penrose (DP) and continuous spontaneous localization (CSL) models, propose a continuous, spontaneous measurement of the mass density field of quantized matter. We show that this mechanism could link both models---not just DP---to fundamental uncertainties in Newtonian gravity. Despite their nonrelativistic nature, these models suggest an induced uncertainty in the flow of time due to fluctuations in the Newtonian potential. We calculate the ultimate limit on time uncertainty and demonstrate that the resulting clock-time uncertainty remains negligible for all contemporary timekeeping devices, including atomic clocks.
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September 12, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Almost every equation in quantum physics depends on special relativity, especially when you consider Dirac's work, which applies relativity to quantum theory to predict antimatter. The idea that the two clash is confined to quantum interpretations that treat the wavefunction as reality.
September 12, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Researchers demonstrated wavefunction-selective control of topological edge transport in twisted bilayer graphene coupled to CrOCl. By tuning Landau-level composition through interfacial charge transfer, they switched edge conductivity between insulating and helical modes at f...
Engineering Artificial Quantum Hall Insulators via Hilbert-Space Control of Helical Edge States
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September 11, 2026 at 9:02 AM
Researchers used a neural-network variational Monte Carlo method to study the fractional quantum Hall effect on the torus, finding three degenerate ground states and demonstrating topological order in unknown systems.

Read more in PRX Intelligence: https://go.aps.org/4A063tB
September 10, 2026 at 2:42 PM