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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.
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Vacuum Dielectric Modulation and Propellant‑less Thrust: Energy‑Density, Momentum‑Conservation, and Thrust Limits
Propellant‑less thrust would eliminate the mass penalty of carrying reaction mass and could transform spacecraft design. Recent capacitor‑discharge experiments report micro‑newton forces, but no quantitative analysis has examined whether a spatially varying vacuum permittivity can generate thrust…
Thermodynamic Feasibility of Tubulin Conformational Switching as a Heat‑Free Parallel Computation Substrate
Cellular information processing is limited by the heat generated during molecular state changes, which constrains the scalability of intracellular computing architectures. The hypothesis that tubulin dimers in microtubules can act as binary switches with near‑Landauer‑limited energy consumption has…
Adelic p‑adic Vacuum Energy Suppression and the Cosmological Constant Problem
The observed dark‑energy density $\rho_{\Lambda}^{\rm obs}\approx10^{-47}\,\text{GeV}^4$ is smaller than the naïve quantum‑field‑theoretic vacuum estimate by roughly $10^{120}$, a discrepancy that blocks predictive cosmology. Existing proposals retain the Archimedean real number field and invoke…
When Reconstruction Knowledge Exceeds System Information: Thermodynamic and Algorithmic Limits
Reconstructing a scrambled physical or digital system—such as a burned manuscript, a highly entangled quantum state, or a tomographic image—requires auxiliary information that is not contained in the scrambled object itself. Existing reconstruction techniques often assume that the required knowledge…
The Speed of Light as a Regularization Parameter of a Distributed-Estimation Vacuum: Causal Bandwidth, Early-Stopping Suppression, and Latency Congestion
The speed of light $c$ is measured, codified in the SI, and used daily, but it is normally treated as a kinematic axiom rather than as a parameter with a physical function. This paper develops and quantifies the conjecture that a finite causal speed acts as a regularization parameter of a vacuum…
Quantization as Hydrodynamic Relaxation: Eigenstates as Attractor Basins in a Dissipative Madelung Fluid
Quantum measurement is presently modeled as an instantaneous stochastic collapse, a postulate that conflicts with the continuous unitary dynamics of the Schrödinger equation and hampers the error budgets of quantum hardware. A deterministic alternative is proposed: by adding a minimal linear drag…
The Base State Hypothesis: A Falsification Protocol for a Substrate Capable of Hosting the Standard Model, Audited Against Contemporary Quantum Platforms
The feasibility of a single, explicitly constructible quantum object—a “Base State”—serving as a substrate for the Standard Model is examined. Existing quantum hardware provides only limited quantitative data: the Tianyan‑287 superconducting processor (105 qubits; single‑qubit gate fidelity 99.90 %,…
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…
Passive Signal as Passive Controller: A Systems-Theoretic Feasibility Analysis of the Signal‑Worker Ontology
Engineers who must stabilize fragile quantum or mesoscopic states face a trade‑off between active control, which continuously injects energy, and passive structural control, which encodes stabilizing information in the environment but lacks a certification theory. The Signal‑Worker (S‑W) ontology…
Parity-Protected Superconducting Qubits at 4 K: A Reconciled Thermodynamic Error-Budget Analysis
Scalable superconducting quantum computing is conventionally operated at millikelvin temperatures, where the cooling power available from dilution refrigerators is severely limited. This paper tests the conjecture that a thermodynamic bottleneck at millikelvin temperatures could be relieved by…
Thermodynamic Bottlenecks on Floquet Driving of Superconducting Matter: Quasiparticle Poisoning, Heat Extraction, and Design Rules
Floquet engineering—periodic modulation of a Hamiltonian to synthesize effective dynamics—is attractive for superconducting circuits and materials, but a driven superconductor is an open system: every absorbed drive photon must be dissipated into a cryogenic bath, and above-gap absorption breaks…
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…
Decoherence as the Ultimate Consequence of Linear Accumulation
We argue that quantum decoherence is not a qualitatively distinct phenomenon requiring new physical postulates, but the inevitable long-time consequence of a single structural assumption: that small environmental perturbations accumulate linearly in the phase space of a system–environment composite.…
The Thermodynamic Wall: Heat Dissipation as a Boundary Condition on Quantum Coherence Time
We introduce the thermodynamic wall: a boundary-condition formulation of the trade-off between macroscopic heat dissipation and quantum coherence time in engineered systems. Just as computational wall models in fluid dynamics encode unresolved near-boundary physics into an enriched boundary…
Finite-Distinction Quantum Mechanics: Unitary Evolution and Superposition as the Large-Distinction Limit of Stochastic Thermodynamics
A finite-entropy world is a finite-distinction world: uncountable precision is unphysical, while computable depth and p-adic valuation remain physically real. The state-space geometry of finite distinctions is combinatorial and ultrametric; quantum mechanics read as thermodynamics is a stochastic…
A Critical Treatise on the Load-Bearing Assumptions of Quantum Mechanics, Thermodynamics, and Computation
The electron is the most precisely measured particle in physics and the workhorse of modern computation, yet the theoretical structure in which it lives rests on assumptions that are load-bearing but rarely interrogated: the complex Hilbert-space postulate, the spin-statistics theorem's premises,…
The Informational Universe: A Synthesis of Holographic Bounds, Thermodynamic Gravity, and Finite-Dimensional Quantum Constraints
We present a synthesis of three established research programs — the holographic entropy bound, thermodynamic gravity, and the finite-dimensional Hilbert space constraint — into a unified informational framework for physical law. The framework's core claim is that entanglement entropy in any finite…
Quantitative Simulation of the Brain's Cognitive Architecture
The human brain seamlessly integrates noisy local inputs into a globally consistent percept, a phenomenon that Euclidean models struggle to adequately explain. Theoretical physics suggests that frustrated complex systems settle into hierarchical equilibria characterized by ultrametric topologies.…
Syntactic Token Calculus
Formalize the observer as a self-enclosing boundary that applies a finite-resolution truncation to the infinite syntactic web. Model thermodynamics, the arrow of time, and quantum decoherence as epistemic artifacts of lossy boundary projection, expressed entirely without numerical probabilities,…
Quantum Brain Dynamics
URL: https://papers.qnfo.org/papers/quantum-brain-dynamics-and-superdeterminism/ Date: 2026-03-11 Version: 1.0 Historically, scientists viewed the human mind as a purely chemical and electrical machine operating under standard thermodynamic laws. This classical model defines the brain as a complex…
Structural Mediation of Planckian Dissipation in Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
The pursuit of macroscopic quantum coherence in strongly correlated electron systems is fundamentally limited by Planckian dissipation, a universal scattering rate that renders active-dynamic control thermodynamically untenable. This paper introduces “Quantum Architectonics,” a design paradigm that…
Ultrametric Relaxation Dynamics in Topological Quantum Memory
The scalability of Topological Quantum Computing (TQC) is currently impeded by a “Thermodynamic Wall,” where the entropy generation from active error correction cycles scales exponentially with logical qubit count. This paper proposes a paradigm shift from active gate synthesis to passive…
Structural vs Driven Quantum Coherence
The pursuit of ambient superconductivity is hampered by a fundamental trade-off between active, energy-intensive control and passive, structural stability. Current literature lacks a unified framework that connects the thermodynamic costs of information, substrate complexity, and the disparate…
Thermodynamics of Knowing
This paper re-frames the physical basis of knowledge as a non-equilibrium thermodynamic process. We reject equilibrium models and identify the “Epistemic Cut” as a dissipative phase transition in a driven open quantum system, specifically the Dicke Model. Through mean-field simulations, we…
Adaptive Thick Skin
Standard approaches to robustness in open systems rely on static topological protection, maintaining a constant energy bias to enforce non-reciprocity. However, this strategy incurs a prohibitive thermodynamic cost, or “quiet tax,” during benign environmental conditions. Here, the “Adaptive Thick…
Coherent Tunneling
Standard biological paradigms conceptualize the organism as a stochastic chemical engine governed by reaction-diffusion kinetics. However, this classical view fails to account for the thermodynamic anomaly of living matter, which sustains macroscopic order against the entropic decay of the…
Superfluid Substrate
The paradoxes limiting contemporary physics—from the vacuum energy catastrophe to the thermodynamic scaling of quantum computers—are artifacts of a static ontology. A unified framework is defined where physical systems are topological modes within a dynamic, relativistic condensate. By modeling the…
THERMODYNAMIC GENESIS OF THE STANDARD MODEL
This paper investigates the thermodynamic viability of the Base State-Disturbance ontology, which posits that the Standard Model emerges from a topological phase transition in the early universe. We hypothesize that the vacuum is the ground state of a Rank-42 Walker-Wang model derived from the…
THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY OF A FILAMENTARY VACUUM
The theoretical program of analogue gravity has established a robust kinematic correspondence between the propagation of excitations in condensed matter systems and the behavior of quantum fields in curved spacetime. This framework, developed over decades of research, posits that the geometric…
Twisted Cuprate Twistronics and the Thermodynamic Scaling of Topological Quantum Computation
The induction of a 25 meV chiral topological gap in 45-degree twisted Bi-2212 heterostructures enables intrinsically protected quantum computation at 4 Kelvin, effectively resolving the thermodynamic and input-output bottlenecks that constrain current millikelvin superconducting architectures. The…
Derivation of Einstein from Thermodynamics
Objective: To derive the Einstein field equations of general relativity from thermodynamic principles applied to local causal horizons, framed within the category-theoretic language of scale-invariant relationships. This derivation formalizes the physical argument of Jacobson (1995) and demonstrates…
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