Emergence of four dimensional quantum mechanics from a deterministic theory in 11 dimensions

Quantum Systems in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology

2017

Long lasting coherence in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes has been observed even at physiological temperatures (1; 2; 3). Experiments have demonstrated quantum coherent behaviour in the long-time operation of the D-Wave quantum computer as well (4; 5). Quantum coherence is the common feature between the two phenomena. However, the 'decoherence time' of a single flux qubit, the component of the D-Wave quantum computer, is reported to be on the order of nanoseconds, which is comparable to the time for a single operation and much shorter than the time required to carry out a computation on the order of seconds. An explanations for the factor of 10 8 discrepancy between the single flux qubit coherence time and the long-time quantum behaviour of an array of thousand flux qubits was suggested within a theory where the flux qubits are coupled to an environment of particles called gravonons of high density of states (6; 7). The coherent evolution is in high dimensional spacetime and can be understood as a solution of Schrödinger's time-dependent equation.Explanations for the quantum beats observed in 2D Fourier transform electronic spectroscopy of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson (FMO) protein complex in the green sulfur bacteria are presently sought in constructing transport theories based on quantum master equations where 'good' molecular vibrations ('coloured noise') in the chlorophyll and the surrounding protein scaffold knock the exciton oscillations back into coherence (8; 9). These 'good' vibrations are claimed to have developed in three billion years of natural selection. These theories, however, face the discomforting experimental observation that "attempts to scramble vibrational modes or to shift resonances with isotopic substitution miserably failed to affect the beating signals" (10). As a possible way out of this dilemma we adopted the formalism of the quantum computation to the quantum beats in the FMO protein complex.

Section: Chooser Mechanism Beables Created With the Chooser Mechanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

How Can the Green Sulfur Bacteria in the Depths of the Black Sea Use Quantum Computing for Light Harvesting?

Quantum Systems in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology

2017

“…This point is detailed in Ref. [74]. The wave packet describing the screen is perfectly determined and if the experimenters were able to prepare it accurately, they could determine the site where the diffracting molecule sticks.…”

Section: The Chooser Mechanism ("Collapse")mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…4 and 5 have been applied to problems of adsorbate localization [69], adsorbate diffusion [70], scattering of massive particles from nano lattices [74], behaviour of quantum computers [50]. In the case of adsorbate diffusion a discrepancy of nearly nine orders of magnitude between the results of CQM and experiment could be removed.…”

Section: Induced Scattering In the Gravonon Continuum Leads To Quantumentioning

confidence: 99%

Copenhagen Quantum Mechanics Emerges from a Deterministic Schrödinger Theory in 11 Dimensional Spacetime Including Weak Field Gravitation

2015

Found Phys

We construct a world model consisting of a matter field living in 4 dimensional spacetime and a gravitational field living in 11 dimensional spacetime. The seven hidden dimensions are compactified within a radius estimated by reproducing the particle-wave characteristics of diffraction experiments. In the presence of matter fields the gravitational field develops localized modes with elementary excitations called gravonons which are induced by the sources (massive particles). The final world model treated here contains only gravonons and a scalar matter field. The gravonons are localized in the environment of the massive particles which generate them. The solution of the Schrödinger equation for the world model yields matter fields which are localized in the 4 dimensional subspace. The localization has the following properties: (i) There is a chooser mechanism for the selection of the localization site. (ii) The chooser selects one site on the basis of minor energy differences and differences in the gravonon structure between the sites, which at present cannot be controlled experimentally and therefore let the choice appear statistical. (iii) The changes from one localization site to a neighbouring one take place in a telegraph-signal like manner. (iv) The times at which telegraph like jumps occur depend on subtleties of the gravonon structure which at present cannot be controlled experimentally and therefore let the telegraph-like jumps appear statistical. (v) The fact that the dynamical law acts in the configuration space of fields living in 11 dimensional spacetime lets the events observed in 4 dimensional spacetime appear non-local. In this way the phenomenol- ogy of CQM is obtained without the need of introducing the process of collapse and a probabilistic interpretation of the wave function. Operators defining observables need not be introduced. All experimental findings are explained in a deterministic way as a consequence of the time development of the wave function in configuration space according to Schrödinger's equation without the need of introducing a probabilistic interpretation.

Localized gravitons as essence of dark energy: Implications for accelerated cosmic expansion

2019

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

A theory of Emerging Quantum Mechanics (EQM) has been developed [1] con-tributing to the understanding of the measurement problem by assigning a quantum dynamical process to collapse within Schrödinger’s theory. EQM treats cosmological problems in a quantum field theory in high dimensional spacetime (11D) including matter and the gravitational field. Gravity is quantized in the weak interaction limit. The EQM Lagrangian contains terms up to fourth order in the gravitational field. Second and fourth order terms are associated with repulsive dark energy and third order terms with attractive dark matter effects. Gravonon-gravonon repulsion, i.e. dark energy in EQM, modifies the structure of the gravitational field and leads to accelerated expansion of the universe. Quantum diffusion of the matter particles in three dimensional space is suggested as the mechanism of the expansion of the universe. The rate of expansion is given by the frequency of the soft gravitational modes. A lower limit of the deceleration parameter for the expansion of the universe, derived in EQM, is in the range between -0.6 and -0.8, an observed value of -0.55 has been reported.