Research5
Publications & preprints
Our written output — preprints, peer-reviewed papers, technical notes, and theses. Most work is openly available, and we planned to keep that stance into the future, per the philosophy and the elective commitment thereof for that constitutes the model of RHINELAB.
2026
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Encoding-Modelling Theory (AET): A Pre-formal Theory of Modelling
Zenodo preprint · 2026
A precursor formulation of Ambiance-Encoding Theory (AET), proposing a framework that separates empirically accessible physical systems (the ambiance space) from their formal descriptions (the encoding space). It identifies three interconnected validation requirements — explicit ambiance specification independent of formalism, encoding justification grounded in ambiance rather than mathematical convenience, and systematic classification of structures as ambiance-invariant or encoding artefacts — addressing a foundational gap between operationalisation and description.
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Quantum Theory of the Ettingshausen Effect in Quantum Wells: A Review
Zenodo preprint · 2026
Using the quantum kinetic equation method, this review investigates electron transport in low-dimensional systems under the simultaneous influence of a magnetic field, a static electric field, and a laser field. It derives an explicit analytical expression for the Ettingshausen coefficient and clarifies electron–optical-phonon scattering mechanisms. For GaAs/GaAsAl quantum wells the effect is enhanced relative to bulk semiconductors as a consequence of quantum confinement, with a non-linear dependence on temperature and laser frequency.
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Artificial Intelligence — On Philosophical Arguments, Technical and General Landscape
Zenodo preprint · 2026
An introductory examination of artificial intelligence that traces its intellectual roots, from questions of rationality and intelligence in the philosophy of mind through to the 20th-century computational shift from "philosophical debate with no ends, to actual reverse engineering and implementation." A historical survey of the term's development and its conceptual precursors.
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Quantum Well Structure and Nonlinear Absorption Interaction: A Review
Zenodo preprint · 2026
A review of quantum wells and the systems built on them — the foundational reasoning behind the model and its physical interpretation. It examines nonlinear absorption effects across quantum-well configurations, including half-parabolic, asymmetric, and finite variants, with and without perpendicular electric fields, and traces the historical development of quantum-well concepts and low-dimensional restrictive well geometries.
2025
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Foundations of Artificial Intelligence Frameworks: Notion and Limits of AGI
arXiv preprint · 2025
We argue that artificial general intelligence cannot emerge from current neural network paradigms regardless of scale. Drawing on the Chinese Room and Gödelian arguments, neuroscience, computer science, and learning theory, we contend that neural networks are architecturally insufficient for genuine understanding — static function approximators of a limited encoding framework, a "sophisticated sponge." We critique foundations the field relies on, distinguish existential facilities (computational substrate) from architectural organisation (interpretive structures), and outline what genuine machine intelligence would require.