Peter William Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 954194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter William Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter William |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS P W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0214-4748 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction
In a conventional experiment, scientists typically aim to learn about target systems by manipulating source systems of the same material type . In an analogue quantum simulation, by contrast, scientists typically aim to learn about target quantum systems of one material type via an experiment on a source quantum system of a different material type. In this article, we argue that such inferences can be justified by reference to source and target q…
A Sideways Look at Faithfulness for Quantum Correlations
Despite attempts to apply causal modeling techniques to quantum systems, Wood and Spekkens argue that any causal model purporting to explain quantum correlations must be fine tuned; it must violate the assumption of faithfulness. This paper is an attempt to undermine the reasonableness of the assumption of faithfulness in the quantum context. Employing a symmetry relation between an entangled quantum system and a “sideways” quantum system consist…
What’s So Spatial about Time Anyway
Skow ([2007]), and much more recently Callender ([2017]), argue that time can be distinguished from space due to the special role it plays in our laws of nature: our laws determine the behaviour of physical systems across time, but not across space. In this work we assess the claim that the laws of nature might provide the basis for distinguishing time from space. We find that there is an obvious reason to be sceptical of the argument Skow submit…
Quantum Causal Models, Faithfulness, and Retrocausality
Wood and Spekkens ([2015]) argue that any causal model explaining the EPRB correlations and satisfying the no-signalling constraint must also violate the assumption that the model faithfully reproduces the statistical dependences and independences—a so-called ‘fine-tuning’ of the causal parameters. This includes, in particular, retrocausal explanations of the EPRB correlations. I consider this analysis with a view to enumerating the possible resp…
Ψ-epistemic quantum cosmology
Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain: The Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen
Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain: the Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen." Hispanic Research Journal, 17(2), pp. 182–183
Luis Buñuel en su archivo. De ‘Los olvidados’ a ‘Viridiana’
Luis Buñuel en su archivo. De ‘Los olvidados’ a ‘Viridiana’." Hispanic Research Journal, 17(4), pp. 358–359
Retrocausality at no extra cost
All that Almodóvar Allows
The links between Almodóvar and Sirk have been noted by many. Reference is made to the career of Douglas Sirk (1897–1987), the emigré German film director whose 1950s melodramas are striking landmarks of the Hollywood cinema. Following general comments on the overlaps of form by two of the cinema’s greatest stylists, attention is paid to one of the pivotal mechanisms in the narrative structures of their films, the sacrifice of one character as th…
New Slant on the EPR-Bell Experiment
The best case for thinking that quantum mechanics is nonlocal rests on Bell's Theorem, and later results of the same kind. However, the correlations characteristic of Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR)–Bell (EPRB) experiments also arise in familiar cases elsewhere in quantum mechanics (QM), where the two measurements involved are timelike rather than spacelike separated; and in which the correlations are usually assumed to have a local causal explanat…
Casablanca: Movies and Memories
Journal Article Casablanca: Movies and Memories Get access Marc Augé, Casablanca: Movies and Memories, trans. Tom Conley. Minneapolis, MN and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 104 pp. Peter William Evans Peter William Evans [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 51, Issue 3, Autumn 2010, Pages 298–300, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjq020 Published: 01 October 2010
Almodóvar: Labyrinths of Passion
Almodóvar: Labyrinths of Passion
Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s And 1990s
Golden-Age Dramatic Criticism Now
The life of the interior: Dreams in the films of Luis Buñuel
Metropolis: Structures of the super ego
New Slant on the EPR-Bell Experiment
The best case for thinking that quantum mechanics is nonlocal rests on Bell's Theorem, and later results of the same kind. However, the correlations characteristic of Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR)–Bell (EPRB) experiments also arise in familiar cases elsewhere in quantum mechanics (QM), where the two measurements involved are timelike rather than spacelike separated; and in which the correlations are usually assumed to have a local causal explanat…
What’s So Spatial about Time Anyway
Skow ([2007]), and much more recently Callender ([2017]), argue that time can be distinguished from space due to the special role it plays in our laws of nature: our laws determine the behaviour of physical systems across time, but not across space. In this work we assess the claim that the laws of nature might provide the basis for distinguishing time from space. We find that there is an obvious reason to be sceptical of the argument Skow submit…
Retrocausality at no extra cost
Quantum Causal Models, Faithfulness, and Retrocausality
Wood and Spekkens ([2015]) argue that any causal model explaining the EPRB correlations and satisfying the no-signalling constraint must also violate the assumption that the model faithfully reproduces the statistical dependences and independences—a so-called ‘fine-tuning’ of the causal parameters. This includes, in particular, retrocausal explanations of the EPRB correlations. I consider this analysis with a view to enumerating the possible resp…
Metropolis: Structures of the super ego
The life of the interior: Dreams in the films of Luis Buñuel
Golden-Age Dramatic Criticism Now
Terms of Endearment: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1980s And 1990s
Almodóvar: Labyrinths of Passion
Almodóvar: Labyrinths of Passion
Casablanca: Movies and Memories
Journal Article Casablanca: Movies and Memories Get access Marc Augé, Casablanca: Movies and Memories, trans. Tom Conley. Minneapolis, MN and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 104 pp. Peter William Evans Peter William Evans [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Screen, Volume 51, Issue 3, Autumn 2010, Pages 298–300, https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjq020 Published: 01 October 2010
All that Almodóvar Allows
The links between Almodóvar and Sirk have been noted by many. Reference is made to the career of Douglas Sirk (1897–1987), the emigré German film director whose 1950s melodramas are striking landmarks of the Hollywood cinema. Following general comments on the overlaps of form by two of the cinema’s greatest stylists, attention is paid to one of the pivotal mechanisms in the narrative structures of their films, the sacrifice of one character as th…
New Slant on the EPR-Bell Experiment
The best case for thinking that quantum mechanics is nonlocal rests on Bell's Theorem, and later results of the same kind. However, the correlations characteristic of Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR)–Bell (EPRB) experiments also arise in familiar cases elsewhere in quantum mechanics (QM), where the two measurements involved are timelike rather than spacelike separated; and in which the correlations are usually assumed to have a local causal explanat…
Retrocausality at no extra cost
Ψ-epistemic quantum cosmology
Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain: The Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen
Golden Age Drama in Contemporary Spain: the Comedia on Page, Stage and Screen." Hispanic Research Journal, 17(2), pp. 182–183
Luis Buñuel en su archivo. De ‘Los olvidados’ a ‘Viridiana’
Luis Buñuel en su archivo. De ‘Los olvidados’ a ‘Viridiana’." Hispanic Research Journal, 17(4), pp. 358–359
Quantum Causal Models, Faithfulness, and Retrocausality
Wood and Spekkens ([2015]) argue that any causal model explaining the EPRB correlations and satisfying the no-signalling constraint must also violate the assumption that the model faithfully reproduces the statistical dependences and independences—a so-called ‘fine-tuning’ of the causal parameters. This includes, in particular, retrocausal explanations of the EPRB correlations. I consider this analysis with a view to enumerating the possible resp…
A Sideways Look at Faithfulness for Quantum Correlations
Despite attempts to apply causal modeling techniques to quantum systems, Wood and Spekkens argue that any causal model purporting to explain quantum correlations must be fine tuned; it must violate the assumption of faithfulness. This paper is an attempt to undermine the reasonableness of the assumption of faithfulness in the quantum context. Employing a symmetry relation between an entangled quantum system and a “sideways” quantum system consist…
What’s So Spatial about Time Anyway
Skow ([2007]), and much more recently Callender ([2017]), argue that time can be distinguished from space due to the special role it plays in our laws of nature: our laws determine the behaviour of physical systems across time, but not across space. In this work we assess the claim that the laws of nature might provide the basis for distinguishing time from space. We find that there is an obvious reason to be sceptical of the argument Skow submit…
How to Engineer a Quantum Wavefunction
In a conventional experiment, scientists typically aim to learn about target systems by manipulating source systems of the same material type . In an analogue quantum simulation, by contrast, scientists typically aim to learn about target quantum systems of one material type via an experiment on a source quantum system of a different material type. In this article, we argue that such inferences can be justified by reference to source and target q…
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