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Physics papers 27 papers
Physicists. Quantum mechanics and its foundations, qubit and device physics, decoherence and leakage, entanglement, anyons and topological matter, superconductivity, thermodynamics of physical systems, spacetime, cosmology and quantum biology.
Metrology. Sensing, Fisher information and precision Tagged papers: 39.
Time as a Nested Ultrametric Hierarchy of Cycles: Formalization, Scaling, and Testable Predictions
Physical time is usually represented as a continuous Archimedean line, yet every operational clock is a periodic process and these processes nest across many orders of magnitude. Existing work on nested frozen‑state hierarchies in kinetically constrained quantum models, ultrametric order‑parameter…
Viscoelastic Gating of Nuclear Spin Coherence in Microtubules: A Quantitative Assessment
Biological cells operate at 310 K, a temperature at which thermal fluctuations are expected to destroy quantum coherence on sub‑picosecond scales. The viscoelastic gating hypothesis proposes that the frequency‑dependent mechanical response of the cytoskeleton attenuates environmental coupling,…
Differential Einthoven‑Inspired Readout for Superconducting Qubit Measurement: Theory and Projected Fidelity Gains
Readout error dominates the overhead of quantum error correction in superconducting processors, limiting logical error rates and scaling prospects. Existing dispersive readout chains suffer from common‑mode disturbances such as amplifier drift, thermal fluctuations, and stray coupling, which add…
Network Tracing Capacity as an Informational Event Horizon: A Delay-Based Causal Bound for Networked Control
Distributed control systems—power-electronics clusters, vehicle platoons, coordinated robot fleets—stabilize unstable plants through communication networks, and the latency of that communication, not the control law, frequently decides whether stabilization succeeds. Existing design practice treats…
Local Hilbert-Space Dimension as a Resolution Parameter: Information-Theoretic Bounds for Qudit Quantum Cellular Automata as Substrates of Emergent Holographic Geometry
Discrete models of quantum gravity lack a computable criterion for when their emergent geometry becomes semiclassical, and the system sizes at which quantum cellular automata (QCA) show holographic entanglement structure remain out of reach of exact simulation. We ask whether enlarging the local…
Ultrametric $p$‑Adic Noise Structure and Heisenberg‑Limited Quantum Metrology: Error Resilience by Geometry, Not Overhead
Quantum metrology seeks phase sensitivities that surpass the standard quantum limit (SQL) $\Delta\theta\propto N^{-1/2}$, aiming for the Heisenberg limit $\Delta\theta\propto N^{-1}$. Decoherence typically destroys this advantage, and active error‑correction incurs prohibitive overhead for near‑term…
The Calibration Loop as Fixed Point: Ontological Underdetermination of the Qubit by Its Own Metrology
Engineered qubits are certified through a closed calibration chain in which drive pulses, readout discriminators, and tomographic validation mutually calibrate one another. This self‑referential loop raises the question of whether the physical referent of the qubit label (collective circuit mode,…
Appearance Under Relativistic Motion: A Quantitative Re‑Examination Across Thermodynamic, Radiative, and Structural Channels
A recurring question in relativistic physics is whether a physical system “appears” invariant to an observer moving at relativistic speed. The gap is definitional: “appears invariant” is ambiguous without specifying the observable and the measurement protocol. We operationally define appearance…
Non-Anthropocentric Natural Units for Area and Information in Holographic Entropy Bounds
The holographic entropy bound is conventionally stated in bits, a unit that embeds two human conventions: integer counting of states and the choice of logarithm base 2. This paper asks whether the bound can be restated entirely in observer-independent quantities, and it situates the question in the…
Thermal Quantum Sensing at High Temperature: Exact Fisher‑Information Bounds, Universal Metrics, and the Work Cost of Quadratic Signals
Thermal fluctuations are usually treated as a nuisance that degrades quantum‑enhanced sensing, yet for certain signal encodings heat can improve the metrological response of a probe. We study thermal quantum sensors governed by a Hamiltonian $H$ and subjected to a unitary signal…
Boundary-Crossing Paths as a Local, Computable Bound on Network Emergence
Emergent features of a networked system—behaviors visible in the coupled whole but absent from any isolated part—are usually measured globally, which obscures where in the network they originate. Building on the recent proposal that every emergent feature of a network system is produced by a route…
Algorithmic Graph-Search Design of Heralded Linear Optical Circuits for Multipartite Entanglement: A Reconciled Quantitative Assessment
Heralded multipartite photonic entanglement underpins quantum communication, distributed sensing, and fault-tolerant computation, yet the manual synthesis of linear-optical circuits that generate a prescribed target state remains a combinatorial bottleneck. A recent preprint [1,2] recasts this…
Conditional Truths and the Locale Framework: Map, Territory, and the Rendering Interface
Every physical statement is a conditional truth: it holds only within a locale --- a specified vacuum or symmetry sector, background geometry, medium, energy scale, or observer frame. This paper formalizes the resulting locale framework in four moves. First, a catalog of conditional truths (photon…
Signal-Worker Boundary Confinement: A Corrected Ontology of Surface vs Bulk Transport
The Signal-Worker (S-W) ontology — boson = signal (the delocalized field instruction), fermion = worker (the localized state that performs work) — is the QNFO corpus's proposed decomposition of the wave–particle duality fog. This paper delivers the red-team-hardened correction of that ontology's…
Searching for P-Adic Log-Periodic Signatures in the Cosmic Microwave Background Bispectrum: Upper Bounds from Planck 2018
We search for p-adic (ultrametric) log-periodic signatures in the cosmic microwave background bispectrum. Radix-locked oscillations with angular frequency omega_p = 2*pi/ln(p), p in {2,3,5,7}. Upper bounds from Planck 2018: epsilon_p < 2.5 at 95% CL, no detection; within single-modulation model this…
No Thing There: Control, Readout, and Self-Referential Metrology in Engineered Quantum Systems
Pedagogical bridge between qubit ontology critique and working physics. Explains what control pulses actually manipulate and what readout measures, across superconducting transmon, trapped-ion, and spin qubit platforms. Includes electrical seesaw analogy, self-referential metrology formalization,…
Cryptochrome Magnetoreception: The Radical Pair Mechanism and Its Implications for Quantum Biology
Review of radical pair mechanism in cryptochrome and avian magnetoreception.
Bruhat-Tits Readout Protocol: Measuring the ZBW Z2 Invariant in Majorana Systems
Proposes three measurement protocols for the p-adic Z_2 invariant: Direct current-correlator measurement, Hensel-lifting amplification via the Bruhat-Tits building, and Gromov delta-hyperbolicity comparison of ZBW trajectories in Dirac/Majorana systems.
Clockwork Cosmos
Classical physics operates on the foundational assumption that space and time form a smooth, infinitely divisible continuum. Providing the mathematical scaffolding for calculus, this geometric model allowed early physicists to calculate macroscopic gravitational trajectories with high reliability.…
Architecture of Experience
The universe is saturated with a chaotic ocean of energy that we call the electromagnetic spectrum. This spectrum stretches from the longest radio waves, which can be miles long, to the shortest gamma rays, which are smaller than an atom. Between these two extremes lies an infinite gradation of…
From Peaks to Pixels
This paper demonstrates the structural isomorphism between the physical quantization of continuous waves (e.g., peak counting) and the information-theoretic process of signal digitization. Using a computational simulation of 50 randomized waveforms, we compare the Shannon entropy of discrete peak…
Spacetime Volume and Fractal Surfaces
The optimization of complex systems is traditionally bifurcated into distinct frameworks: quantum information theory, which prioritizes the minimization of spacetime volume (circuit complexity), and biophysics, which has historically focused on volume-filling metabolic scaling (WBE model). This…
ASYMMETRIC ELECTRON TRANSPORT ARISING FROM INTRINSIC STRUCTURAL CHIRALITY
A central objective in modern condensed matter physics is to establish a direct, predictive link between the microscopic quantum properties of a material’s electronic structure and its macroscopic, functional responses. Recent advances in spectroscopy have provided unprecedented insight into the…
Engineering Macroscopic Quantum Coherence in Disordered Moiré Metamaterials
The study of moiré materials is defined by a central paradox: the experimental observation of robust, macroscopic quantum phases, such as superconductivity and topological insulation, in devices known to possess significant atomistic disorder. This work bridges this “disorder-topology gap” by…
Hydrodynamic Gating of Nuclear Spin Coherence v2
Standard neurobiological models assume the mammalian brain is too warm and wet to sustain macroscopic quantum states, creating a “thermal wall” that seemingly precludes quantum cognition. However, the “viscosity paradox” of the cytoplasm reveals that while the cellular interior is structurally…
Waves Do Math
Stand at the edge of the ocean. One is at the boundary between two worlds: the solid, seemingly definite world underfoot, and the fluid, ever-changing world of the sea. Intuition tells us these are fundamentally different kinds of existence. Intuition is wrong. This treatise demonstrates that there…
Statistics is the Bridge
The universe is not a tale of inevitability but a probabilistic tapestry where every moment teeters between decay and creation, governed by the silent arithmetic of possibility. At its core, this tension is captured by entropy—a measure of disorder often misunderstood as an inexorable slide into…
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