Low temperature motion of hydrogen on metal surfaces signals breakdown of quantum mechanics in 3+1 dimensions

2015

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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Abstract. We develop a deterministic theory which accounts for the coupling of a high dimensional continuum of environmental excitations (called gravonons) to massive particle in a very localized and very weak fashion. For the model presented Schrödinger's equation can be solved practically exactly in 11 spacetime dimensions and the result demonstrates that as a function of time an incoming matter wave incident on a screen extinguishes, except at a single interaction center on the detection screen. This transition is reminiscent of the wave -particle duality arising from the "collapse" (also called "process one") postulated in the Copenhagen-von Neumann interpretation. In our theory it is replaced by a sticking process of the particle from the vacuum to the surface of the detection screen. This situation was verified in experiments by using massive molecules. In our theory this "wave-particle transition" is connected to the different dimensionalities of the space for particle motion and the gravonon dynamics, the latter propagating in the hidden dimensions of 11 dimensional spacetime. The fact that the particle is detected at apparently statistically determined points on the screen is traced back to the weakness and locality of the interaction with the gravonons which allows coupling on the energy shell alone. Although the theory exhibits a completely deterministic "chooser" mechanism for single site sticking, an apparent statistical character results, as it is found in the experiments, due to small heterogeneities in the atomic and gravonon structures.

Section: The Sticking Time Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

2015

J. Phys.: Conf. Ser.

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“…In the problem of diffusion of an adsorbed particle on a solid surface the Hamiltonian has been chosen as [69,70]:…”

Section: Telegraph Signals ("Quantum Jumps")mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1 and has been published in Ref. [70]. The analytical derivation of why and how telegraph signal like changes in the state of a quantum system, entangled with gravonons in the environment, occur, is presented in Ref.…”

Section: Telegraph Signals ("Quantum Jumps")mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The adsorbate motion, which we want to investigate, occurs, however, in the presence of other masses, which have already induced a structure in the gravonon field. The modelling of the pre-existing gravonon structure has been described in a previous paper [70]. The modification of the gravonon structure induced by matter fields has also been described in Ref.…”

Section: Model For the Non-interacting And The Matter-induced Gravonomentioning

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%

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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.

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

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.