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[19] ai.viXra.org:2512.0105 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-31 20:11:52
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 11 Pages.
This note reports a replicated, high-resolution Bell-transport experiment on IBM Quantum superconducting hardware using a prefix-path protocol that controls spatial heterogeneity across transport lengths. A single physical qubit chain is fixed and increasing transport length L is realized via prefixes of that chain, so that L changes depth while keeping qubits nested rather than switching to different qubit subsets.We reconstruct the Bell-state fidelity F_{Phi+}(L) from Pauli correlators E_{XX}, E_{YY}, E_{ZZ} and apply a minimal drift correction using interleaved full-Phi+ control blocks. Beyond a single-chain sweep (high-resolution run), we perform a comparative geometry test across three disjoint physical chains on the same backend. The effective decay scale extracted from the same protocol differs significantly across chains (with >10 sigma separations), providing operational evidence that the transport decay scale is geometry-dependent under fixed compilation constraints.Motivated by the Rate Inheritance Principle (RIP) framing, we also investigate whether a phase-sensitive static correlation metric measured on idle chains can predict dynamical transport decay. A curated three-chain set exhibits an ordering agreement between a static Ramsey-X nearest-neighbor covariance metric and the transport decay scales mu measured on the same chains. However, scale-up studies over n=18 randomly sampled chains and a preregistered out-of-sample prediction test do not show statistically significant monotone association under permutation testing. Accordingly, we interpret the static—dynamic ordering agreement as conditional and geometry-specific under the present operationalization, while the geometry dependence of dynamical decay is robust.
Category: Quantum Physics
[18] ai.viXra.org:2512.0102 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-31 01:35:33
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 8 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: Please cite listed scientific references)
We derive the local one-loop term proportional to the scalar curvature R in the Euclidean effective action induced by integrating out matter fields on a curved background. Using Schwinger proper-time regularization with cutoff ε = Λ^{-2} and the Seeley—DeWitt coefficient a1, we extract the quadratically divergent contribution proportional to ∫ d^4x √g R. We fix a single Euclidean convention for the Einstein—Hilbert action, specify the Laplacian sign convention, and make the Laplacian—Lichnerowicz identity explicit to remove sign ambiguities in the fermionic sector. We provide a unified bookkeeping coefficient A1^(eff) for scalars, fermions, and gauge+ghost packages, and the corresponding induced Newton coupling within the stated scheme. A compact species table and a minimal reproducible computation snippet are included.
Category: Quantum Physics
[17] ai.viXra.org:2512.0101 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-31 01:06:02
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 9 Pages.
We formulate a non-Gaussian, finite-volume, and uniform-in-Λ extension of the clustering—recovery bridge for interacting lattice systems. Using an explicit collar geometry with buffer width w, we propose that uniform exponential clustering implies approximate quantum Markov structure and the existence of a recovery channel acting on the buffer whose reconstruction error decays exponentially in w. We relate this formulation to conditional mutual information via the Fawzi—Renner bound and discuss an operational Heisenberg-picture quasi-locality strengthening for recovery. We provide finite-size numerical evidence in 1D transverse-field Ising model Gibbs states by comparing Petz and averaged rotated-Petz recovery. The data show exponential-in-w decay of recovery errors and reveal a consistent prefactor—slope trade-off: rotated-Petz can be better at small buffer width while Petz often exhibits a faster decay and overtakes beyond a modest crossover width.
Category: Quantum Physics
[16] ai.viXra.org:2512.0099 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-29 21:46:06
Authors: Michael Zot
Comments: 7 Pages.
This paper treats active inference as an organ-level physical mechanism rather than a metaphor or purely cognitive theory. Using the System Emergence Discovery Protocol (SEDP), we reconstruct active inference as a composed functional system that produces bounded, persistent observers from noisy sensory inputs and limited action channels. The analysis frames active inference as a process theory derived from the Free Energy Principle, in which a system maintains structural and functional integrity by minimizing variational free energy through coupled perception and action, conditioned on a statistical boundary defined by a Markov blanket.Active inference is formalized as a mapping from local measurement records at a boundary to bounded internal states, action policies, and maintained separation between internal and external degrees of freedom. Markov blankets are treated strictly as conditional independence boundaries, variational free energy as a computable upper bound on surprise, and thermodynamic persistence as local maintenance through dissipation rather than any violation of the second law. The framework is constrained by explicit SEDP locks, including an operational definition, a unified success predicate, lesion-style failure modes, minimality arguments, and empirical witness classes.The paper argues that active inference functions as an "observer organ" that enables agents to persist long enough to sample, store, and act on records. In this sense, it can be treated as upstream of the Objectivity Organ, which produces stable, shared facts in the environment. Together, these mechanisms clarify how observers and objective facts can co-emerge from the same physical substrate without invoking privileged access, consciousness assumptions, or metaphysical primitives. Clinical interpretations are discussed cautiously as mechanistic hypotheses about precision weighting rather than diagnostic claims.
Category: Quantum Physics
[15] ai.viXra.org:2512.0095 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-28 19:35:01
Authors: Rudolph Elliot Willis
Comments: 5 Pages.
Wave—particle duality is a foundational feature of quantum mechanics, yet the physical processes underlying single-particle interference remain an open question. Here I investigate a dynamical mechanism based on spontaneous stochastic mass—energy interconversion at subatomic scales. By allowing particle mass to fluctuate in time, consistent with Einstein’s mass—energy equivalence, I derive a modified Schrödinger equation containing a stochastic kinetic-phase term. Applying this framework to the double-slit experiment, I show that interference arises from coherent, path-dependent phase accumulation while remaining fully compatible with localized detection events described by standard quantum mechanics. The model yields a closed-form expression for fringe visibility, predicts a characteristic momentum- and mass-dependent decoherence rate, admits a path-integral formulation, and enables direct experimental bounds using existing neutron, electron, and atom interferometry data. These results provide a physically motivated, testable mechanism underlying quantum interference without altering the formal axioms of quantum mechanics.
Category: Quantum Physics
[14] ai.viXra.org:2512.0091 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-27 17:26:11
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 7 Pages.
We derive the local contribution proportional to the scalar curvature R in the Euclidean one-loop effective action obtained by integrating out matter fields on a curved background. Using a Schwinger cutoff ε = Λ^{-2} and the Seeley—DeWitt coefficient a1, we extract the quadratically divergent term multiplying ∫ d^4x sqrt(g) R. We fix a single Euclidean convention for the Einstein—Hilbert action, state an explicit Laplacian convention, and write the Lichnerowicz/Weitzenböck identity in a sign-robust form so that the fermionic contribution is unambiguous. We provide a unified bookkeeping coefficient A1^(eff) such that W_R^total = -(A1^(eff)/(32π^2)) Λ^2 ∫ d^4x sqrt(g) R, and hence an induced Newton constant G_ind via comparison with the Euclidean Einstein—Hilbert action. We also include the minimal gauge+ghost package in background Feynman gauge, a species table, and a short reproducible numerical snippet.
Category: Quantum Physics
[13] ai.viXra.org:2512.0085 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-24 22:30:35
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 10 Pages.
We present an operational research program linking (i) geometry as suppressibility of cross-region influence, (ii) membranes as engineered interfaces implementing that suppressibility, and (iii) life as sustained maintenance of internal organization under finite resources. The framework composes: a law-grade thermodynamic inequality relating incremental maintenance power to the instantaneous loss rate of an organization functional; a static geometric suppression layer in which cross-interface leakage admits an envelope of the form poly(mε)e^{-mε} (with Kν(mε) as a canonical representative in massive homogeneous models); and a dynamical hinge, the Rate Inheritance Principle (RIP), connecting static suppression to separation-dependent effective dynamical rates. To avoid sign and quantifier errors, we distinguish upper and lower rate envelopes κ↑(ε) and κ↓(ε) and state precisely which claims require which envelope. We further separate a law-grade Δ-track (energy pinching) from a conditional biology-grade E-track (general conditional expectations). We add two interface anchors: a recoverability layer via conditional mutual information and the Fawzi—Renner guarantee, and a minimal Davies interface lemma showing how correlator envelopes imply Davies-rate envelopes in standard weak-coupling settings. We propose a concrete electrical testbed using membrane-embedded spin probes to measure dephasing-rate envelopes and detect near-zero-frequency rate floors that yield a resource horizon. A dependency and falsification matrix is provided to make the logical structure audit-friendly.
Category: Quantum Physics
[12] ai.viXra.org:2512.0081 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-23 10:38:28
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 13 Pages.
Maintaining quantum coherence against uncontrolled open-system dynamics is a control task with unavoidable thermodynamic cost. In a finite-dimensional setting with battery-assisted thermal operations at bath temperature T, we define an incremental (extra) maintenance power P_extra(rho) that isolates the cost of stabilizing coherence at fixed populations. For Markovian uncontrolled dynamics rho_t = exp(t L)(rho) we prove a single-law lower bound P_extra(rho) >= k_B T * Cdot_loss(rho), where C(rho) = S(rho || Delta[rho]) is relative-entropy coherence to energy pinching Delta and Cdot_loss(rho) := - d/dt C(rho_t) at t=0. This statement is operational, observer-independent, and geometry-free.We then formulate a falsifiable dynamical bridge between static locality/clustering and decoherence rates: the Rate Inheritance Principle (RIP). Using an operatorial Dirichlet-form identity, we highlight a concrete failure mode whereby near-zero Bohr-frequency channels can induce distance-independent rate floors, despite static clustering. These ingredients motivate a purely operational notion of a "cut": a resource boundary separating maintainable coherence from regimes where classical-like effective descriptions are enforced under finite control budgets.We provide falsifiable protocols that distinguish static one-shot work from sustained maintenance power across quantum platforms and interface geometries, including a numerical stress test (uniform floor versus collar-induced suppression) in a gapped transverse-field Ising chain with remote dissipation. Finally, we offer an Outlook for cognitive systems as resource-limited physical agents, connecting the operational resource boundary to the Free-Energy Principle at a methodological (non-phenomenological) level. We do not propose collapse mechanisms, do not derive the Born rule, and make no claims about phenomenological consciousness.
Category: Quantum Physics
[11] ai.viXra.org:2512.0073 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-19 17:44:57
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 22 Pages.
We present a finite-dimensional technical core for interpreting the quantum—classical boundary as a control-resource limitation: a state is operationally "classical" (relative to a chosen conditional expectation) whenever sustaining coherence is infeasible under a finite available power budget.Using battery-assisted thermal operations at temperature T and energy pinching Δ, we quantify coherence by C(ρ)=S(ρ||Δ[ρ]) and define its instantaneous loss rate under uncontrolled Markovian dynamics. An imported maintenance inequality yields the operational bound P_extra(ρ) ≥ k_B T · dotC_loss(ρ).We isolate the dynamical hinge required for geometric scaling claims: the relation between geometric separation and effective decoherence rates. In Davies generators we provide interface lemmas: an exact ω=0 Dirichlet identity implying witness-based lower bounds via a KMS commutator with S(0), and a sufficient envelope-suppression lemma under explicit infrared exclusion plus a quasi-local spectral-tail hypothesis.Finally, we provide TFIM exact-diagonalization witness protocols computing R(ε) and optimized local witnesses R_opt(ε), including scaling tests with ε=ε(N) and temperature sweeps over β. We also report state-side micro-tests on weak-coherence families, confirming plateau behavior of dotC_loss/C and controlled ω=0 scaling in γ(0) and β, with numerical stability checks.
Category: Quantum Physics
[10] ai.viXra.org:2512.0072 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-19 18:23:38
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 6 Pages.
In gapped open quantum systems with localized couplings, static correlations across an operational interface of width ε are exponentially suppressed by the mass gap. Independently, the energetic cost of maintaining quantum coherence is governed by the rate at which coherence is lost under uncontrolled dynamics. What is currently missing is a principled connection between these two facts: how geometric suppression of static correlations constrains dynamical decoherence rates.We formulate the Rate Inheritance Principle (RIP): the hypothesis that effective coherence-loss rates inherit the same suppression envelope as static correlations across an operational interface. We distinguish a weak upper-envelope form, which admits partial microscopic support, from a stronger envelope-class conjecture. We analyze microscopic plausibility within Davies-type weak-coupling dynamics, provide surrogate numerical evidence using tunable buffer-chain models, and identify explicit failure modes. RIP is presented as a falsifiable hypothesis with clearly delimited scope.When combined with independently established maintenance-power bounds, RIP supplies the missing dynamical input needed to interpret the quantum—classical transition as a resource boundary rather than an interpretational postulate.
Category: Quantum Physics
[9] ai.viXra.org:2512.0071 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-19 18:31:21
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 4 Pages.
Maintaining quantum coherence against uncontrolled open-system dynamics is an operational control task with unavoidable thermodynamic cost. In finite dimensions, explicit lower bounds on the minimal power required to stabilize coherence can be derived under standard Markovian assumptions, independently of geometric or field-theoretic structure.At the same time, many model-specific results indicate that static correlations in gapped systems are geometrically suppressed, raising the question of how such suppression might influence dynamical decoherence rates and, consequently, coherence-maintenance power. Bridging these two domains requires additional dynamical input that is not provided by static clustering alone.This article does not introduce new technical results. Instead, it provides an architectural closure of the coherence-maintenance program by explicitly separating: (i) results that are proven without additional structure, (ii) conditional interfaces that depend on standard open-system dynamics or geometric assumptions, and (iii) open dynamical hypotheses. In particular, we identify rate inheritance—the relation between static correlation envelopes and effective decoherence rates—as the unique unresolved hinge on which geometric scaling arguments depend.By making this logical structure explicit, the framework remains robust under partial refutation: even if specific inheritance hypotheses fail, coherence maintenance remains a well-defined operational resource with unavoidable dynamical costs. The purpose of this paper is architectural rather than technical.
Category: Quantum Physics
[8] ai.viXra.org:2512.0070 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-19 18:38:28
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 5 Pages.
In gapped quantum many-body systems, static correlations decay exponentially with distance. A common heuristic expectation is that this geometric suppression carries over to dynamical decoherence rates induced by local environments. This expectation has been isolated as the Rate Inheritance Principle (RIP).We perform a direct stress test of RIP in a fully specified Davies-type Markovian setting. We consider a one-dimensional gapped spin chain weakly coupled to a thermal bosonic bath through a strictly local system operator supported near a site j0. To avoid ambiguities associated with state preparation, we formulate RIP operatorially: for operators supported at distance ε from the coupling region, we define an effective decay-rate envelope κ(ε) from the Heisenberg-picture Liouvillian.Numerical results show that rate inheritance is conditional. In energy-exchange-dominated regimes, κ(ε) decreases with separation, consistent with geometric suppression. In contrast, in regimes dominated by near-zero-Bohr-frequency channels, κ(ε) can saturate with distance despite static clustering. Combined with standard thermodynamic maintenance bounds, these results yield an operational resource horizon: whenever effective rate floors persist under increasing separation, sustained coherence becomes impossible under finite available power.
Category: Quantum Physics
[7] ai.viXra.org:2512.0064 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-17 19:09:08
Authors: Lluis Eriksson
Comments: 11 Pages.
We propose an operational reinterpretation of the quantum—classical transition: classical-like behavior coincides with regimes where sustaining coherence becomes resource-infeasible under available control budgets. The quantitative framework draws on two companion preprints: (i) lower bounds on coherence-maintenance power under battery-assisted thermal operations, and (ii) geometric suppression envelopes in massive Gaussian split configurations. We separate one-shot work costs (static) from maintenance power costs (dynamic) and isolate the unique non-derived bridge—the inheritance of geometric suppression by relaxation rates—as a falsifiable interface hypothesis. Two worked prototypes ground the program: an exact qubit-dephasing computation showing rate domination in a standard Markovian model, and an $epsilon$-tunable buffer-chain surrogate yielding numerical evidence of $epsilon$-dependent rate suppression consistent with a gapped envelope class. The framework reframes the Heisenberg cut as a resource boundary rather than a fundamental discontinuity.
Category: Quantum Physics
[6] ai.viXra.org:2512.0040 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-11 17:11:00
Authors: Avery Spranger
Comments: 49 Pages.
The conventional model of physical reality presumes that the past exists as a fixed sequence ofobjective events and that human memory serves only as a passive retrieval mechanism for theseevents. This paper challenges both assumptions through a synthesis of quantum informationtheory and contemporary neuroscience. Drawing on the quantum measurement problem andWheeler’s It from Bit principle (Wheeler, 1989; Landauer, 1991; Floridi, 2011), reality isexamined as a fundamentally informational structure that becomes determinate only through actsof observation. This informational framework is then contrasted with empirical evidence frommemory reconsolidation research, which demonstrates that memory retrieval destabilizes andbiologically re-encodes prior experiences (Nader et al., 2000; Dudai, 2004; Sara, 2000). Thecentral hypothesis proposed is that identity functions as the continuous observer required tostabilize quantum informational collapse, yet this identity is sustained by a biologically mutableneural archive (Conway & Pleydell-Pearce, 2000; Damasio, 1999). Consequently, alterations inmemory do not merely affect subjective interpretation of the past but may restructure theinformational conditions that govern the observer’s present experiential reality. The paperconcludes by considering the philosophical and ethical implications of this synthesis for theoriesof selfhood, causation, and participatory cosmology (Farah, 2002; Earp et al., 2014).
Category: Quantum Physics
[5] ai.viXra.org:2512.0036 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-08 22:33:25
Authors: Justin Howard-Stanley
Comments: 16 Pages.
We demonstrate measurement-basis-dependent quantum steering and discord in four-qubit en-tangled states implemented on quantum hardware. By varying measurement angle θ ∈ [0, 90], weobserve quantum steering increasing as S(θ) = 0.264 sin2 (θ) + 0.168 (R 2 = 0.943) while quantum discord decreases as D(θ) = 0.939 cos2(θ)−0.017 (R 2 = 0.993). We identify a sharp phase transition at θ ∗ = 76.88 ± 0.5 where three-tangle crosses zero, marking a continuous transformation between GHZ-like and W-like entanglement character. These results establish active measurement-based control of multipartite quantum correlations with implications for quantum communication protocols and distributed quantum computing. Total experimental dataset comprises 440,000 quantum measurements across 55 angular settings, providing high-precision mapping of the steering-discord relationship and unprecedented resolution of the entanglement phase transition.
Category: Quantum Physics
[4] ai.viXra.org:2512.0034 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-08 22:20:47
Authors: B. G. Preza
Comments: 5 Pages. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
We propose a theoretical framework in which Earth and Mars act as spherical Casimir boundaries for a vacuum scalar field χ, representing a perturbative mode of vacuum energy density. Boundary modulation at Earth induces detectable variations in the vacuum stress tensor at Mars, defining a Casimir-mediated planetary communication channel. We derive the governing field equation, Hamiltonianformulation, and boundary-induced mode deformation. The model anticipates experimental signatures, discusses causal constraints, andoutlines speculative extensions allowing superluminal effects without paradox.
Category: Quantum Physics
[3] ai.viXra.org:2512.0033 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-07 20:11:56
Authors: Jamie Stas
Comments: 24 Pages.
Recent work by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka (2014) demonstrates that scattering amplitudes in certain quantum field theories can be computed from purely geometric objects—the amplituhedron—without reference to spacetime coordinates or local interactions. This 'spacetime elimination' program suggests that familiar spacetime and locality may be emergent bookkeeping conveniences rather than fundamental ontology. Parallel developments in quantum gravity, particularly holographic dualities and the Ryu-Takayanagi formula relating entanglement entropy to area, indicate that spacetime geometry itself may emerge from entanglement structure on lower-dimensional boundaries.We develop this into an observer-physics framework yielding novel perspectives on three seemingly unrelated problems: (i) the quantum measurement problem, (ii) the nature of phenomenal consciousness and its relation to brain dynamics, and (iii) dark matter phenomenology observed in galaxies and clusters. The central proposal is that there exists a timeless 'surface field'—a holographically encoded information substrate—on which all physically relevant structure is encoded as positive geometries and entanglement patterns. Biological observers function as specialized interfaces that select and interpret particular slices of this substrate. Quantum measurement, on this view, is not physical wavefunction collapse but biological interpretation-path selection: decoherence-stabilized coupling between the surface field and an observer's internal predictive hierarchy.This framework: (1) dissolves the measurement problem by reconceiving 'collapse' as interface-limited interpretation; (2) reframes the 'hard problem' of consciousness as an interface-coupling problem rather than emergence from matter; (3) naturally produces an effective dark matter component through gravitational coupling to unselected branch structure in semiclassical gravity. We develop the formal foundations, specify biological interface architecture, derive consequences for quantum experiments, neuroscientific signatures, and galactic dynamics, and show compatibility with existing empirical data while yielding novel, falsifiable predictions.
Category: Quantum Physics
[2] ai.viXra.org:2512.0030 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-07 18:09:34
Authors: Kase Branham
Comments: 3 Pages.
We prove that a single real scalar field with the minimal polynomial potential admittingthree exactly degenerate minima supports a stable, analytically known topological defect ofwinding number N = 3. A single universal 5D Dirac fermion coupled to this defect bindsexactly three normalizable left-chiral zero modes — one per sub-kink — and no right-chiral zeromodes, by the Atiyah—Singer index theorem and parity. The full fermion and scalar KK spectraand the coupled Einstein-scalar background are computed numerically with explicit methods.All non-zero modes lie above 9.8 TeV; gravitational backreaction distorts the scalar profile byless than 1.2%. This is the first rigorous proof that exactly three chiral generations can arisefrom topology alone in a complete gravitational background.
Category: Quantum Physics
[1] ai.viXra.org:2512.0014 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-05 00:59:51
Authors: Clinton J. Shaffer
Comments: 20 Pages. (Note by ai.viXra.org Admin: Please cite listed scientific references)
This paper suggests a concept for an aether flowing vertically into matter that potentially explains gravity and discusses a candidate model for the composition of such an aether. Such an aether composition could provide a mechanism for electromagnetism, and strong forces, as well as, providing a sensible mechanism for quantum gravity. Further the existence of an aether could also help many other physical phenomena make better sense. The null test result of the Michelson-Morley experiment resulted, in the conclusion that there was no aether, and that conclusion remains today. The basis of the Michelson-Morley experiment was the assumption that the earth traveled through the aether; an assumption that overlooked the possibility that the aether flows directly and vertically into all matter including the earth from all spherical directions. For an aether to continuously flow into a mass, it must convert into something else that can flow back out again. Perhaps two or more aether components flow into matter, including vacuum energy, where these components somehow combine to form something else, such as thermal photons, which flow back out of matter. The inward flowing components cause a gravitational drag force while passing through matter but the outward flowing components do not. As the aether converges towards a spherical center, it must accelerate and I speculate that this acceleration is the cause of the gravitational time dilation, which in turn, results in the gravitational drag force. The thermal photons radiating into space would gradually give up energy to the aether of space until the photons dissolve back into aether components and vacuum energy. Electromagnetism, and strong forces could potentially be explained as an exchange of aether components between positive and negative charges. An aether could also help explain other phenomena such as the duality of light, mass and energy, vacuum friction, and the unexplained thermal energies radiating from planets. This paper suggests a possible composition of the aether, as well as, two experiments that could be performed with the potential of supporting an aether flowing into matter. Unproven ideas are offered to provoke new thinking.
Category: Quantum Physics