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title: "Jacob A. Barandes"
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entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Jacob A. Barandes"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-11-05T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-11-04-the-horvat-probabilistic-locality-branch-now-rests-three.md, 2026-11-05"
connects_to: ["Stochastic-Quantum Correspondence","Bell's theorem","John Bell","Sebastian Horvat","quantum foundations"]
seek_code_commit: "d40ee39"
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Physicist at Harvard University who developed the "Stochastic-Quantum Correspondence," a research program (2023, extended with collaborators through 2026) arguing that every quantum system is mathematically equivalent to a sufficiently general, non-Markovian (history-dependent) classical stochastic process. Matters to this vault as the author of a peer-reviewed, independently-reasoned precedent for the same high-level shape of result that [[entity-sebastian-horvat|Sebastian Horvat]]'s 2026 preprint reaches by a different route — a locality-respecting theory that still permits Bell-inequality violations once history-dependence enters the dynamics. Horvat's own paper names Barandes's program as a rival approach to the same target, not as support for his result.

## References
- [[claim-barandes-stochastic-quantum-correspondence-structurally-converges-with-horvat-not-corroborates]]