TEMPORAL FORMALISMS

Quantum time symmetry

Aharonov, Yakir, Peter G. Bergmann, and Joel L. Lebowitz. “Time Symmetry in the Quantum Process of Measurement.” Physical Review 134, no. 6B, 1964, B1410–B1416. Foundational paper for the ABL rule and time-symmetric treatment of quantum measurement. Core reference for systems described between preparation and post-selection.
Aharonov, Yakir, and Lev Vaidman. “The Two-State Vector Formalism of Quantum Mechanics: An Updated Review.” In Time in Quantum Mechanics. Springer, 2002. Reference text for the two-state vector formalism: a system at an intermediate time described by a state evolving from the past and a second state fixed by a later measurement.
Vaidman, Lev. “The Two-State Vector Formalism.” arXiv:0706.1347, 2007. Compact technical overview of the formalism and its interpretive consequences.

Wheeler, John Archibald. “The ‘Past’ and the ‘Delayed-Choice’ Double-Slit Experiment.” In Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Theory, edited by A. R. Marlow. Academic Press, 1978. Canonical delayed-choice formulation. The experimental arrangement is fixed after the quantum system has entered the apparatus, forcing a distinction between naive histories and observable arrangements.
Kim, Yoon-Ho, Rong Yu, Sergei P. Kulik, Yanhua Shih, and Marlan O. Scully. “Delayed ‘Choice’ Quantum Eraser.” Physical Review Letters 84, no. 1, 2000, 1–5. Experimental reference for delayed-choice quantum erasure. Essential for separating retrocausal language from signal transmission into the past.
Ma, Xiao-Song, Johannes Kofler, Angie Qarry, Nuray Tetik, Thomas Scheidl, Rupert Ursin, Sven Ramelow, et al. “Quantum Erasure with Causally Disconnected Choice.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 110, no. 4, 2013. Extension of delayed-choice quantum eraser logic under stricter spacetime separation.

Price, Huw. Time’s Arrow and Archimedes’ Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time. Oxford University Press, 1996. Major philosophical source for thinking time asymmetry from outside ordinary temporal perspective. Central for resisting the assumption that causal asymmetry is primitive.
Price, Huw. “Toy Models for Retrocausality.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics 39, no. 4, 2008, 752–761. Useful for minimal retrocausal structures and for distinguishing retrocausal models from metaphysical spectacle.
Friederich, Simon. “Retrocausality in Quantum Mechanics.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019. Overview of motivations, models and objections in retrocausal approaches to quantum mechanics. Use as orientation, not doctrine.
Wharton, Ken. “Lagrangian-Only Quantum Theory.” Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 46, 2013. All-at-once / boundary-condition approach. Important for thinking systems constrained globally rather than evolved from initial data alone.

Wheeler, John Archibald, and Richard P. Feynman. “Interaction with the Absorber as the Mechanism of Radiation.” Reviews of Modern Physics 17, no. 2–3, 1945, 157–181. Classical electrodynamic source for advanced and retarded interactions. Useful for historical depth, but not interchangeable with quantum post-selection.
Cramer, John G. “The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.” Reviews of Modern Physics 58, no. 3, 1986, 647–687. Interpretation using offer and confirmation waves. Important reference, but should be handled carefully: its ontology is not identical to TSVF or all-at-once approaches.
Costa de Beauregard, Olivier. “Time Symmetry and the Einstein Paradox.” Il Nuovo Cimento B 42, 1977. Historical source for retrocausal and time-symmetric readings of quantum correlations.

Dummett, Michael. “Bringing About the Past.” The Philosophical Review 73, no. 3, 1964, 338–359. Philosophical reference on whether actions can affect the past. Useful for separating logical, causal and epistemic versions of backward influence.
Lewis, David. “Causation.” Journal of Philosophy 70, no. 17, 1973, 556–567. Counterfactual account of causation. Not retrocausal, but important as the background against which temporal direction and dependency are usually formalized.
Reichenbach, Hans. The Direction of Time. University of California Press, 1956. Classical reference on temporal direction, entropy and causal asymmetry.
Huw Price and Richard Corry, eds. Causation, Physics, and the Constitution of Reality: Russell’s Republic Revisited. Oxford University Press, 2007. Useful collection for the relation between causation and physical theory.

Boltzmann, Ludwig. Lectures on Gas Theory. 1896–1898. Historical foundation for statistical mechanics and entropy. Use for the physical background of temporal asymmetry.
Eddington, Arthur S. The Nature of the Physical World. Cambridge University Press, 1928. Source of the phrase “arrow of time.” Important for the cultural and physical framing of temporal direction.
Albert, David Z. Time and Chance. Harvard University Press, 2000. Modern philosophical treatment of statistical mechanics, entropy and the past hypothesis.
Callender, Craig. What Makes Time Special? Oxford University Press, 2017. Broad philosophical account of time, specialness and physical asymmetry.