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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.
Teaching. Course and seminar material Tagged papers: 34.
ZX Diagrams at the Seam: Spiders, Pauli Webs, Gadgets, and the Cafeteria Problem of Cross-Disciplinary Imports
Diagrammatic languages are the most successful interface between quantum computing and the human mind. The ZX calculus — with its spiders, Pauli webs, and gadgets — is taught as the intuitive picture of quantum processes, and its completeness theorems are among the finest results in the field. Yet…
Frequency as Valuation Theory: The Rational Ratio at the Heart of Physical Law
Frequency in dimensionless Planck units is a rational ratio a/b in Q. The Compton frequency of a fundamental particle is its invariant identity — its prime spectrum.
The Revolutionary Beginner's Guide to Quantum Computing: Why We Don't Have Quantum Computers Yet — and What the Geometric Alternative Offers
A 20-chapter beginner's guide to quantum computing that starts with an honest question — why don't we have quantum computers yet? — rather than the usual "here's what a qubit is." The guide teaches the standard curriculum (qubits, entanglement, algorithms, error correction) accurately, explains why…
Knowing Patterns: An Epistemology for People Tired of Being Fixed
No steps. No habits to install. No “mindset shifts” to practice until they stick. No journaling prompts. Descriptions of how patterns work. In physics. In biology. In the daily motion of attention, mood, action, and thought. Descriptions of what a “thing” actually is (a temporary knot of relations)…
Syntactic Generation
Traditional models of physical reality rely on the assumption of foundational substances. These base materials are typically conceptualized as particles, fields, or continuous spatial manifolds. Such approaches inevitably generate persistent philosophical dualisms and questions regarding ultimate…
Static Architecture of Reality
URL: https://papers.qnfo.org/papers/static-architecture-of-reality/ Date: 2026-03-21 Version: 1.0.1 Human consciousness presents a world in constant flux. From the rotation of planets to the decay of particles, every measurement confirms a dynamic universe. This experience of temporal flow is so…
Double Pendulum as a Topological Bridge
The double pendulum serves as the paradigmatic model for the transition from integrability to chaos, yet its potential as a rigorous bridge between classical nonlinear dynamics and quantum open systems remains underutilized. By treating the system’s phase space as a topologically tiled manifold…
Topology of Quanta
The historical development of quantum mechanics was marked by a profound bifurcation between physical intuition and mathematical formalism, a divergence often characterized as a category error that delayed the integration of topology into physics by nearly a century. This paper argues that the…
WINDING NUMBERS AND STRANGE LOOPS
The historical preference for linear mathematical frameworks in physics represents a profound ontological oversight. This paper establishes that physical reality emerges not from linear foundations with circular corrections, but from circular/topological primitives with linear projections. The…
Standard Model
The Standard Model (SM) of particle physics represents the most precise and empirically successful framework devised for describing fundamental particles and their interactions. This rigorous empirical success is intrinsically coupled with severe, formally demonstrable theoretical deficiencies that…
Continuum is Real
For over a century, physics has been defined by an ontological schism. The continuous, deterministic, and local reality described by classical mechanics and general relativity stands in direct opposition to the discrete, probabilistic, and non-local phenomena of quantum mechanics. This division has…
Quantum Mechanics as Applied Wave Harmonics
This textbook introduces a deterministic derivation and reinterpretation of quantum mechanics from the first principles of classical wave mechanics. It argues that all phenomena conventionally attributed to quantum mechanics are emergent properties of a fundamentally classical reality composed of…
The Simplicity of Reality: Deconstructing the Mathematical Epicycles of Modern Physics
Simplicity of Reality: Deconstructing the Mathematical Epicycles of Modern Physics Abstract: This paper argues that the impenetrable mathematical abstraction of modern theoretical physics is not a necessary feature of reality, but a direct symptom of a flawed ontological foundation initiated by…
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