The universal path integral

DOI10.1007/S11128-015-1178-7MaRDI QIDQ264655zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Seth Lloyd, Olaf Dreyer

Publication date 1 April 2016

Published in Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.2850

zbMATH Keywords

quantum informationalgorithmic informationdecoherent historiespath integralstheory of everything

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Abstract: Path integrals represent a powerful route to quantization: they calculate probabilities by summing over classical configurations of variables such as fields, assigning each configuration a phase equal to the action of that configuration. This paper defines a universal path integral, which sums over all computable structures. This path integral contains as sub-integrals all possible computable path integrals, including those of field theory, the standard model of elementary particles, discrete models of quantum gravity, string theory, etc. The universal path integral possesses a well-defined measure that guarantees its finiteness, together with a method for extracting probabilities for observable quantities. The universal path integral supports a quantum theory of the universe in which the world that we see around us arises out of the interference between all computable structures.

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