Are quantum spins but small perturbations of ontological Ising spins?

DOI10.1007/S10701-020-00370-4zbMATH Open1454.81019arXiv2008.01721OpenAlexW3101053080MaRDI QIDQ828404FDOQ828404

Authors: Hans-Thomas Elze 

Publication date: 8 January 2021

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The dynamics-from-permutations of classical Ising spins is generalized here for an arbitrarily long chain. This serves as an ontological model with discrete dynamics generated by pairwise exchange interactions defining the unitary update operator. The model incorporates a finite signal velocity and resembles in many aspects a discrete free field theory. We deduce the corresponding Hamiltonian operator and show that it generates an exact terminating Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. Motivation for this study is provided by the Cellular Automaton Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. We find that our ontological model, which is classical and deterministic, appears as if of quantum mechanical kind in an appropriate formal description. However, it is striking that (in principle arbitrarily) small deformations of the model turn it into a genuine quantum theory. This supports the view that quantum mechanics stems from an epistemic approach handling physical phenomena.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.01721

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicscellular automatonqubitBaker-Campbell-Hausdorff formulaIsing spinontological state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie (super)algebras to physics, etc. (17B81) Algorithmic information theory (Kolmogorov complexity, etc.) (68Q30) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Dynamic lattice systems (kinetic Ising, etc.) and systems on graphs in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C20)

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