Quantum theory as a critical regime of language dynamics

DOI10.1007/S10701-015-9937-YzbMATH Open1326.81011arXiv1501.02710OpenAlexW2118744211MaRDI QIDQ892935FDOQ892935

Alexei Grinbaum

Publication date: 12 November 2015

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

Abstract: Some mathematical theories in physics justify their explanatory superiority over earlier formalisms by the clarity of their postulates. In particular, axiomatic reconstructions drive home the importance of the composition rule and the continuity assumption as two pillars of quantum theory. Our approach sits on these pillars and combines new mathematics with a testable prediction. If the observer is defined by a limit on string complexity, information dynamics leads to an emergent continuous model in the critical regime. Restricting it to a family of binary codes describing `bipartite systems,' we find strong evidence of an upper bound on bipartite correlations equal to $2.82537$. This is measurably different from the Tsirelson bound. The Hilbert space formalism emerges from this mathematical investigation as an effective description of a fundamental discrete theory in the critical regime.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1501.02710

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zbMATH Keywords

continuitycritical phenomenaalgebraic coding theoryTsirelson boundbipartite correlationsreconstruction of quantum theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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