Karl Svozil

• CV , Research & Publication list
• Teaching (Course notes on "Methods of Theoretical Physics" can be found here and here.)
• A short video on "Quantum Contextuality", some blurbs (e.g., on macroeconomics (also here), public accountability, and aesthetics)
• Address:
  Ao.Univ.Prof. i.R. (ret.) Dr. Karl Svozil
  TU Wien, Institut für Theoretische Physik,
  Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/136, A-1040 Vienna, AUSTRIA
  TEL: +43 1 58801x13614 ( x13601 or 2 Secretary)
  FAX: +43 1 5880113699
  e-mail:svozil@tuwien.ac.at
  ORCHID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6554-2802
  

Some recent publications

• Karl Svozil, ``Converting nonlocality into contextuality'', Physical Review A 110, 012215(6) (2024) , , [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.110.012215], , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Cristian S. Calude, and Karl Svozil, ``Binary quantum random number generator based on value indefinite observables'', Scientific Reports (Nature) 14, 12845 (2024) , , [DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-62566-2], , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Mirko Navara and Karl Svozil, ``Form of contextuality predicting probabilistic equivalence between two sets of three mutually noncommuting observables'', Physical Review A 109(2) 022222(18) (2024) , , [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.109.022222], , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Mohammad H. Shekarriz and Karl Svozil, ``Noncontextual coloring of orthogonality hypergraphs'', Journal of Mathematical Physics 63 (3), 032104 (2022) , , [DOI: 10.1063/5.0062801], , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Hans Havlicek and Karl Svozil, ``Completing bases in four dimensions'', Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 55 (10), 105304 (2022) , , [DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ac4919], , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Generalized Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger arguments from quantum logical analysis'', Foundations of Physics 52 (4), 1-23 (2022) , , [DOI: 10.1007/s10701-021-00515-z], , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Interdimensionality'', Axioms 10 (4), 300 (2021) , , [DOI: 10.3390/axioms10040300], , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Alexander Svozil and Karl Svozil, ``Induction and Physical Theory Formation As Well As Universal Computation by Machine Learning'', in Swarm Intelligence, ed. Andrew Schumann (CRC} Press, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, Boca Raton, FL), ISBN: 978-1-467-4799-8-9, pp. 170-180 (2021) [DOI: 10.1201/9780429028618], , , , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Extensions of Hardy-type true-implies-false gadgets to classically obtain indistinguishability'', Physical Review A 103 (2), 022204(13) (2021) , , [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.103.022204], , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``What Is so Special about Quantum Clicks?'', Entropy 22 (6), 602 (2020). , , [DOI: 10.3390/e22060602], , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX]. Supplement (program code): , [L^aT_eX],

• Karl Svozil, ``Classical Predictions for Intertwined Quantum Observables Are Contingent and Thus Inconclusive'', Quantum Reports 2 (2), 278-292 (2020) , , [DOI: 10.3390/quantum2020018], , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Roots and (Re)sources of Value (In)definiteness Versus Contextuality'', in Quantum, Probability, Logic: The Work and Influence of Itamar Pitowsky, ed. by Meir Hemmo and Orly Shenker (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2020), Jerusalem Studies in Philosophy and History of Science (JSPS, volume 1) ISBN: 978-3-030-34316-3, pp. 521-544 (2020) [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34316-3_24], , , , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Physical (A)Causality. Determinism, Randomness and Uncaused Events'' (Springer, Cham, 2018), xiv+219 pages.

• Karl Svozil, ``Quantum Advantage by Relational Queries About Equivalence Classes'', in High-Performance Computing and Big Data Analysis, ed. by Lucio Grandinetti, Seyedeh Leili Mirtaheri, and Reza Shahbazian (Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2019), Communications in Computer and Information Science book series (CCIS, volume 891) ISBN: 978-3-030-33495-6, pp. 504-512 (2019) [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-33495-6_39], , , , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Adan Cabello, Jose R. Portillo, Alberto Solis and Karl Svozil, ``Minimal true-implies-false and true-implies-true sets of propositions in noncontextual hidden-variable theories'', Physical Review A 98 (1), 012106(8) (2018) , , , [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.012106], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``New Forms of Quantum Value Indefiniteness Suggest That Incompatible Views on Contexts Are Epistemic'', Entropy 20 (6), 406 (2018) , , , [DOI: 10.3390/e20060406], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude and Karl Svozil, ``A variant of the Kochen-Specker theorem localising value indefiniteness'', Journal of Mathematical Physics 56(10), 102201(1-17) (2015) , , , [DOI: 10.1063/1.4931658], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Non-contextual chocolate ball versus value indefinite quantum cryptography'', Theoretical Computer Science 560 (Part 1, Special Issue on Quantum Cryptography), 82-90 (2014) , , , [DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2014.09.019], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude and Karl Svozil, ``Value-indefinite observables are almost everywhere'', Physical Review A 89 (3), 032109 (2014) , , , [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.89.032109], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Unscrambling the Quantum Omelette'', International Journal of Theoretical Physics 53(10), 3648-3657 (2014) , , , [DOI: 10.1007/s10773-013-1995-3], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Alastair A. Abbott, Cristian S. Calude, Jonathan Conder and Karl Svozil, ``Strong Kochen-Specker theorem and incomputability of quantum randomness'', Physical Review A 86 (6), 062109 (2012) , , , [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.062109], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Physical Unknowables'', in Kurt Gödel and the Foundations of Mathematics, ed. by Matthias Baaz, Christos H. Papadimitriou, Hilary W. Putnam, Dana S. Scott and Charles L. Harper (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2011), pp. 213-251 , , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Cristian S. Calude, Michael J. Dinneen, Monica Dumitrescu and Karl Svozil, ``Experimental evidence of quantum randomness incomputability'', Physical Review A 82, 022102 (2010) [8 pages], , , , [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.022102], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``The diagonalization method in quantum recursion theory'', Quantum Information Processing 9(2), 295-305 (2010), , , , [DOI: 10.1007/s11128-009-0115-z], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Proposed direct test of a certain type of noncontextuality in quantum mechanics'', Physical Review A 80, 040102 (2009), , , , [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.040102], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Three criteria for quantum random-number generators based on beam splitters'', Physical Review A 79, 054306 (2009), , , , [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.054306], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Contexts in quantum, classical and partition logic'', in Handbook of Quantum Logic and Quantum Structures, ed. by Kurt Engesser, Dov M. Gabbay and Daniel Lehmann (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2008), pp. 551-586 , [DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-52869-8.50015-3], , , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Staging quantum cryptography with chocolate balls'', American Journal of Physics 74(9), 800-803 (2006) , , , [DOI:10.1119/1.2205879], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Are simultaneous Bell measurements possible?'', New Journal of Physics 8, 39 (2006) , , , [DOI:10.1088/1367-2630/8/3/039], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Communication cost of breaking the Bell barrier'', Physical Review A 72, 050302(R) (2005) , , , [DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.72.050302], [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].

• Daniel M. Greenberger and Karl Svozil, ``Quantum Theory Looks at Time Travel'', in Quo Vadis Quantum Mechanics?, ed. by A. Elitzur, S. Dolev and N. Kolenda (Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2005), pp. 63-72 [DOI:10.1007/3-540-26669-0_4], ]. , , [L^aT_eX].

• Stefan Filipp and Karl Svozil, ``Generalizing Tsirelson's Bound on Bell Inequalities Using a Min-Max Principle'', Physical Review Letters 93, 130407 (2004). [ DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.130407], , , , [L^aT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Quantum information in base n defined by state partitions'', Physical Review A 66, 044306 (2002) [ DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.66.044306], , , , , [L^aT_eX]].

• Niko Donath and Karl Svozil, ``Finding a state among a complete set of orthogonal states'' Physical Review A 65, 044302 (2002) [ DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.65.044302], , , , , [L^aT_eX].

• Karl Svozil, ``Conventions in relativity theory and quantum mechanics'' Foundations of Physics 32(4), 479-502 (2002); An appendix contains a complete proof of Alexandrov's theorem using methods of affine geometry. [DOI:10.1023/A:1015017831247], , , , [L^aT_eX].

• Itamar Pitowsky and Karl Svozil, ``Optimal tests of quantum nonlocality'' Physical Review A 64, 014102 (2001) [ DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.64.014102], , , , , [L^aT_eX].

• K. Svozil, D. Felix and K. Ehrenberger, ``Amplification by stochastic interference'', Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 29, L351-L354 (1996) [ DOI:10.1088/0305-4470/29/13/007], , .

• Karl Svozil and Josef Tkadlec, ``Greechie diagrams, nonexistence of measures in quantum logics and Kochen-Specker type constructions'', Journal of Mathematical Physics 37, 5380-5401 (1996) [DOI:10.1063/1.531710], , , [L^aT_eX], [BibT_eX].