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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…
Relaxation in Noisy Quantum Maps versus Classical Iterative Algorithms: A Shared Decay Law with a Divergent Semiclassical Limit
Operators of hybrid classical-quantum compute facilities must decide, before any hardware is committed, whether a relaxation-type workload converges faster as a classical stationary iteration on a CPU cluster or as a repeatedly applied noisy quantum map on a quantum co-processor; no side-by-side…
Quantization as Hydrodynamic Relaxation: Eigenstates as Attractor Basins in a Dissipative Madelung Fluid
We develop a research program in which quantum jumps are reinterpreted as continuous, deterministic relaxation events in the Madelung hydrodynamic picture of quantum mechanics, where the wavefunction $\psi=\sqrt{\rho}\,e^{iS/\hbar}$ becomes a compressible fluid with density $\rho$ and velocity…
Thermodynamic Divergence of Active Quantum Error Correction Overhead: A Kapitza-Limited Feasibility Threshold for Gate-Based Architectures
Active quantum error correction (QEC) is conventionally analyzed as an algorithmic resource problem: how many physical qubits and gate cycles are needed per logical qubit. We propose a complementary thermodynamic feasibility criterion. In a gate-based architecture, every QEC cycle is driven by…
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" the same, or in any sense invariant, to an observer moving at relativistic speed relative to it. We re-frame this question operationally: invariance of what quantity, under which measurement protocol? We analyze…
The Base State Hypothesis: A Falsification Protocol for a Substrate Capable of Hosting the Standard Model, Audited Against Contemporary Quantum Platforms
We formalize the question of whether a single, explicitly constructible quantum object — a "Base State" — could serve as a substrate on which the structure of the Standard Model is hosted, rather than the Standard Model being assembled from particle-like primitives on a qubit-gate substrate. A Base…
Passive Signal as Passive Controller: A Systems-Theoretic Feasibility Analysis of the Signal-Worker Ontology
The Signal-Worker (S-W) ontology interprets the boson as a signal — a delocalized field instruction — and the fermion as a worker — the localized state that performs work, and proposes that passive, structure-encoded control is thermodynamically superior to active, energy-intensive control. A…
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…
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…
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 Resource Burden of Active Quantum Error Correction: A Scaling Analysis of Qubit, Bandwidth, and Energy Overheads
Active quantum error correction (QEC) protects quantum information only by continuously consuming physical resources: qubits, measurement bandwidth, classical processing, and energy. While the theoretical foundations of QEC are mature, the resource burden of running a code—rather than constructing…
Thermodynamic Budgeting for Hybrid Quantum-Classical Computing: A Three-Layer Energy Model with Explicit Arithmetic and a 15-Month Validation Roadmap
Hybrid quantum-classical (HQC) computing is the dominant near-term paradigm, yet its energy accounting is rarely made explicit: the classical control, readout, cryogenic, and orchestration hardware surrounding the quantum processing unit (QPU) can dominate the total power budget, eroding any…
Thermodynamic Trade-off Frontiers for Neuromorphic Processors: A Quantum-Inspired Non-Equilibrium Model of the Energy–Speed Boundary
Neuromorphic processors promise order-of-magnitude gains in energy efficiency, but no predictive framework currently connects device-level dissipation to system-level computational throughput. We develop a non-equilibrium thermodynamic model in which a neuromorphic processor is treated as a driven,…
The Margolus-Levitin Bound and Energy-Time Limits for Quantum Computation at the Landauer Scale
The Margolus-Levitin (ML) bound establishes a fundamental limit on the speed of quantum evolution, stating that a system with mean energy $\langle H \rangle$ above its ground state requires a minimum time $\tau \ge \pi\hbar/(2\langle H\rangle)$ to evolve between orthogonal states. This preprint…
Landauer-Limit Energy Floor and JPCUB Normalization for Cryogenic Quantum Control Electronics
Cryogenic quantum control electronics dissipate energy many orders of magnitude above the thermodynamic minimum implied by Landauer's principle, and the gap matters for the joules-per-compute economics of fault-tolerant machines. This paper computes the Landauer floor for a rotated surface-code…
Error Correction Is a Landauer Machine: The Thermodynamic Floor of Quantum Error-Correction Overhead
Every cycle of active (measurement-based) quantum error correction is an erasure process priced by Landauer's principle at no less than kT ln 2 per erased bit; correction overhead therefore converges to a positive thermodynamic floor, (n-k)/k * kT ln 2 per logical qubit per round for an n,k…
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 Joules-per-Solution Metric: Definition, Measurement Protocol, and Anti-Gaming Provisions for Honest Computational Benchmarking
We define and formalize the joules-per-solution (J/S) metric as a universal, cross-domain measure of computational energy efficiency. The metric accounts for six energy components: computation, memory, I/O, cooling, power conversion, and amortized manufacturing. We provide a closed-form definition,…
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…
The Physics of Computation: Fundamental Limits and the Honest Boundaries of Post-Classical Computing
Phase III of the Qubit Delusion series. Examines fundamental physical limits on computation: Landauer bound, Margolus-Levitin theorem, Bremermann limit, Bekenstein bound. Shows that quantum error-correction overhead (1e2-1e3 physical operations per logical operation) multiplies thermodynamic cost…
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 Abacus
The scalability of active, gate-based quantum computers is fundamentally challenged by the “Thermodynamic Wall,” where the heat from control electronics becomes prohibitive. This study computationally investigates the “Quantum Abacus,” a passive quantum computing architecture that circumvents this…
Spectral Dynamics and Thermodynamic Stability in the Arithmetic Quantum Framework
The scalability of fault-tolerant quantum computing is currently obstructed by a “Thermodynamic Wall,” where the entropy generated by active error correction (QEC) cycles scales exponentially with the number of logical qubits. This research addresses the crisis by proposing a transition from active,…
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…
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…
Autonomous Dissipative Quantum Processing
Current quantum computing architectures face a thermodynamic bottleneck where the energy cost of classical error correction scales superlinearly with system size. Reliance on exogenous classical control imposes a latency and power penalty that renders hybrid paradigms unscalable for exascale…
Thermodynamic Veto
The realization of commercially viable, fault-tolerant quantum computing is precluded not by engineering immaturity but by a fundamental percolation phase transition driven by correlated noise and thermodynamic constraints, which render the required system scales physically uncorrectable. The status…
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…
Escaping the Millikelvin Death Spiral
Standard quantum architectures rely on dilution refrigeration to suppress thermal noise, tethering the industry to a non-scalable 20 mK thermal floor. The cooling power at millikelvin temperatures scales poorly, creating a “mainframe constraint” that limits widespread deployment. Here, a 4-Kelvin…
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 AND TOPOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS ON BIOLOGICAL QUANTUM PROCESSING
This study establishes a rigorous quantitative boundary between engineered quantum systems and biological matter, defined by the thermodynamic cost of information protection. By benchmarking the 2025 Google “Willow” superconducting processor—which requires cryogenic isolation (20 mK) and active…
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 Imperative
Standard quantum computing paradigms assume that minimizing temperature is the primary pathway to coherence, driving massive investment in millikelvin dilution refrigeration. However, a fundamental thermodynamic paradox remains unsolved: cooling capacity scales superlinearly with temperature…
Thermodynamic Scaling of 4-Kelvin Topological Processors
Standard superconducting quantum processors are currently constrained by the thermodynamic bottleneck of millikelvin dilution refrigeration, which precludes the integration of high-speed control logic and limits scalability. This reliance on the 20 mK regime creates a “mainframe constraint” where…
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…
Thermodynamic Viability and the Universality of Feynman Matter
The dominant paradigm for universal quantum computation, predicated on active error correction, is fundamentally constrained by a thermodynamic wall, a phase transition where the entropy produced by control operations catastrophically overwhelms the system. This study quantifies this constraint,…
Thermodynamics of Structural Persistence (Topological Memory)
The prevailing paradigm in quantum information preservation—active intervention—relies on continuous, energy-intensive error correction cycles to suppress entropic decay. This approach faces a fundamental scaling limitation: the latency horizon, where the time delay of the control loop exceeds the…
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…
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…
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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