dr. M.P. Seevinck

[Photograph of dr. M.P. Seevinck]

Full name: dr. Michael Patrick Seevinck, a.k.a. Michiel Seevinck (In the Netherlands I am called by the name of Michiel)


NEW (12 Nov 2009): Frederike Elisabeth Seevinck

Curriculum Vitae (February 4, 2010)

November 2009: awarded a Veni research grant. This 3-year post-doctoral scholarship is part of the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme of the Dutch National Science Organisation (NWO).

Successful defense of doctoral dissertation, entitled Parts and Wholes. An Inquiry into Quantum and Classical Correlations, at Utrecht University on October 27, 2008.
A hard copy is obtainable via Igitur of the Utrecht University Library. A4-size also available through arXiv or philsci-archive.

From April 1, 2009 until August 1, 2009, I was at the Centre for Time, Philosophy Faculty, Sydney, as a Visiting Scholar.

Academic Output


    A: REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

  1. Nonlocal setting and outcome information for violation of Bell's inequality
    Michael Seevinck (co-authored with M. Pawlowski, J. Kofler, T. Paterek, C. Brukner). Submitted. arXiv: 0903.5042 (2009).
            Manuscript:   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   eprintweb.org

  2. Monogamy of Correlations vs. Monogamy of Entanglement
    Michael Seevinck. Accepted for publication in Quantum Information Processing, December 2009.
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   Google Scholar

  3. Discerning Elementary Particles
    Michael Seevinck (co-authored with F.A. Muller). Philosophy of Science, 76 (April 2009) pp. 179-200.
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv   PhilSci
            Cited by:   Citebase   Google Scholar

  4. Separability criteria for genuine multiparticle entanglement
    Michael Seevinck (co-authored with Otfried Gühne). Submitted. arXiv: 0905.1349 (2009).
            Manuscript:   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   Google Scholar

  5. Partial separability and entanglement criteria for multiqubit quantum states
    Michael Seevinck (co-authored with Jos Uffink). Physical Review A, Vol. 78, 032101 (2008).
       -Selected for the September 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
       -Selected for the September 15, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   prola   Google Scholar

  6. Strenghtened Bell inequalities for orthogonal spin directions.
    Michael Seevinck (co-authored with Jos Uffink). Physics Letters A, Vol. 372, 1205 (2008).
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   Google Scholar

  7. Local commutativity versus Bell inequality violation for entangled states and versus non-violation for separable states
    Michael Seevinck (co-authored with Jos Uffink). Physical Review A, Vol.76, 042105 (2007).
       -Selected for the October 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   prola   Google Scholar

  8. Comment on "A local realist model for correlations of the singlet state" (Eur. Phys. J. B 53:139-142, 2006)
    Michael Seevinck (co-authored with Jan-Åke Larsson). The European Physical Journal B, vol 58, p.51 (2007).
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   Google Scholar

  9. Classification and monogamy of three-qubit biseparable Bell correlations.
    Michael Seevinck. Physical Review A, Vol. 76, 012106 (2007).
       -Selected for the July 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
       -Selected for the July 23, 2007 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology.
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   prola   Google Scholar

  10. Separable quantum states do not have stronger correlations than local realism. A comment on quant-ph/0611126 by Z. Chen.
    Michael Seevinck. ArXiv: quant-ph/0701003. December 2006.
            Manuscript:   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   Google Scholar

  11. Is standard quantum mechanics technologically inadequate?
    Michael Seevinck (co-authored with F.A. Muller). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 58, 595-604 (2007).
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   PhilSci
            Cited by:

  12. The quantum world is not built up from correlations.
    Michael Seevinck. Foundations of Physics, Vol. 36, 1573-1586, 2006.
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv   PhilSci
            Cited by:   Citebase   Google Scholar

  13. Belleterie van EPR
    Michi(a)el Seevinck. Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Natuurkunde, Vol. 71, p. 354 (2005).
            Manuscript:   Published version
            Cited by:

  14. Addendum to ''Sufficient conditions for three particle entanglement and their tests in recent experiments''.
    Michael Seevinck (co-authored with Geza Tóth, Otfried Gühne and Jos Uffink). Physical Review A, Vol. 72, 014101 (2005).
       -Selected for the July 2005 issue of Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   prola   Google Scholar

  15. Holism, Physical Theories and Quantum Mechanics
    Michael Seevinck. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Vol. 35B, 693-712 (2004).
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv   PhilSci
            Cited by:   Citebase   Google Scholar

  16. Bell-type Inequalities for Partial Separability in N-particle systems and Quantum Mechanical Violations.
    Michael Seevinck (co-authored with George Svetlichny). Physical Review Letters, Vol. 89, 060401 (2002).
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   prola   Google Scholar

  17. Sufficient conditions for three particle entanglement and their tests in recent experiments.
    Michael Seevinck (co-authored with Jos Uffink). Physical Review A, Vol. 65, 012107 (2001).
            Manuscript:   Published version   DOI   arXiv
            Cited by:   Citebase   prola   Google Scholar




    Drafts and submissions


  18. Deriving standard Bell inequalities from non-locality and its repercussions for the (im)possibility of doing experimental metaphysics.
    Michael Seevinck. To be submitted.

  19. Deep Hidden Variables
    Michael Seevinck. To be submitted.




    B: DISSERTATION and THESIS

  20. Parts and Wholes. An Inquiry into Quantum and Classical Correlations.
    Doctoral Dissertation. Utrecht University, October 2008. 284 pages. A4-size also available through arXiv or philsci-archive. A hard copy is obtainable via Igitur of the Utrecht University Library .

  21. Entanglement, Local Hidden Variables and Bell-inequalities. An investigation in multi-partite quantum mechanics.
    Masters Thesis, Utrecht University, June 2002 . [PDF]




    C: TRANSLATIONS

  22. The Circularity in von Neumann's Proof.
    Translation from German to English of 'Der Zirkel in NEUMANNs Beweis', section 7 from the essay of Grete Hermann 'Die Naturphilosophischen Grundlagen der Quantenmechanik'. Abhandlungen der Fries'schen Schule 6, 2 (1935), pp. 69-152.

  23. On the causal connection of the world. An extension of classical dynamics.
    Translation from German to Englisch of 'Über den Wirkungszusammenhang der Welt. Eine Erweiterung der klassischen Dynamik', by H. Tetrode, Zeitschrift für Physik, vol. 10, 317-328 (1922).

  24. The logic of non-simultaneously decidable propositions.
    Translation from German to Englisch of 'Die Logik nicht gleichzeitig entscheidbarer Aussagen', by Ernst Specker. Dialectica, vol. 14, 239-246 (1960).

  25. An invariant variation principle for the motion of many electrical mass particles.
    Translation from German to Englisch of 'Ein invarianter Variationssatz für die Bewegung mehrerer elektrischer Massenteilchen.', by A.D. Fokker. Zeitschrift für Physik, vol. 58, 386 - 393 (1929).


    D: POSTER

  26. Local commutativity versus Bell inequality violation for entangled states and versus non-violation for separable states. Presented at the Vienna Symposium on the Foundations of Modern Physics, June 7-10, 2007.

  27. What is Non-Classical about Quantum Entanglement? Presented at the Departmental Day, Sub-faculty of Physics, Utrecht University. June 12, 2008.




    E: TALKS

  28. Discerning elementary particles. Talk held at EPSA09, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, October 22 2009.

  29. Analyzing passion at a distance: progress in experimental metaphysics? Talk held at workshop ESF programme "The philosophy of science in European perspective", Zeist, the Netherlands, October 19 2009.

  30. Analyzing passion at a distance: progress in experimental metaphysics? Talk held at Centre for Time, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. June 10, 2009; and at the Workshop: Philosophical Perspectives on Understanding Quantum Mechanics at the the CLEA Institute, Free University Brussels (VUB), Brussels, Belgium. October 9, 2009.

  31. Analyzing passion at a distance: progress in experimental metaphysics? Talk held at Centre for Quantum Dynamics, Griffith's University, Brisbane, Australia. June 3, 2009; and at Center for Quantum Computer Technology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. June 4, 2009.

  32. Einstein on theory construction and unification. Lessons for current theoretical physics. Invited talk held at Spacetime & Relativity workshop, Center for Time, Sydney, Australia. April 15, 2009.

  33. Monogamy, entanglement and deep hidden variables.
    Invited talk held on February 24 2009 at IQOQI, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Innsbruck, Austria.

  34. Monogamy, entanglement and deep hidden variables.
    Invited talk held on February 12 2009 at DAMTP, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.

  35. Deep Hidden Variables.
    Invited talk held at the Young Researchers Conference, December 8-12, 2008. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada.

  36. Parts and Wholes. On some results from my dissertation.
    Talk held at the two-day conference on the foundations of quantum mechanics, October 30-31, 2008. CLEA, Free University Brussels, Belgium.

  37. Deep Hidden Variables.
    Talk held at the one-day conference on the foundations of quantum mechanics, October 28, 2008. Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

  38. What is beneath the surface? On deeper level hidden-variables and comparing surface and subsurface levels.
    Talk held at the Workshop on 'Causality and Locality in Physics', 13 June 2008. Center for Logic and Philosophy of science, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

  39. On the merits of modeling quantum mechanics via semi-classical models.
    Talk held at the conference Models and Simulation 2, 11-13 October 2007. Center for Logic and Philosophy of science, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.

  40. Deriving standard Bell inequalities from non-locality and its repercussions for the (im)possibility of doing experimental metaphysics.
    Talk held at the 15th UK and European meeting on the Foundations of Physics in Leeds, UK, March 29, 2007 and at the Oxford Philosophy of Physics Group, Oxford University, UK, November 30, 2006. [Oxford version]

  41. Bell Inequalities and Entanglement
    Talk held at a departmental day (department of Physics, Utrecht University), The Netherlands, June 21, 2006.

  42. Stunningly Stronger Bell inequalities
    Invited talk held at the One day European conference on the philosophy and foundations of physics, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 24th May 2006.

  43. Simulating Local Realism by Quantum mechaincs. Entanglement as a necessary resource to simulate all local hidden variable correlations.
    Talk held at the 33rd annual Philosophy of Science Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 10-14 April 2006. [PDF]

  44. The Quantum world is not build up out of correlations (although the quantum state is).
    Transparancies of a talk held on September 1st 2005 at the conference 'Philosophical and Foundational issues in Quantum Theory', September 1-5, 2005, Budapest, Hungary. [PDF]

  45. Holisme, emergentie, eigenschapstoekenning en begripsvorming vanuit fysisch perspectief.
    Transparancies of a talk [in Dutch] held on 13 juli 2005 for the 'Dynamische Systeem Groep' at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. [PDF]

  46. Historical and Conceptual Aspects of von Neumann's No Hidden Variables Argument
    Transparencies of talk presented at 13th UK meeting on the Philosophy of Physics,York, UK in September 2004 and at the Utrecht IGG Colloquium on Thursday October 7th, 2004. [PDF]

  47. Quantum Operations and Measurement.
    Transparencies of talk presented at Oviedo for the 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science on the quantum operations formalism. August 11th, 2003. [PDF]

  48. Multi-partite Entanglement versus multi-partite Non-locality.
    Transparencies of talk presented at Oxford, at Utrecht and at Nijmegen. Version: Februari 2003. [PDF]

  49. A Criterion for Holism in Quantum Mechanics.
    Transparencies of invited talk presented at Bonn for the International Workshop on Holism in Physical Theories July 6th, 2003 and at 12th UK conference of foundations of physics at Leeds, 2-6 September, 2003. Version: September 2003 Leeds. [PDF] ( Bonn-version [PDF])

  50. Grete Hermann. Philosopher, Physicist and Mathematician before her time? Transparencies of talk presented at Utrecht Denklunch. Fall 2002. [PDF]





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