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Quantum and Classical mechanics vs QFT

General Physics 2026-02-26 v1

Abstract

15 years ago Dmitry Diakonov wrote the paper "Towards lattice-regularized Quantum Gravity", arXiv:1109.0091. In his approach, gravity with metric and tetrads arise from pre-geometric quantum fields leading to unusual dimensions of physical quantities. In particular, particle masses are dimensionless. We are trying to extend the Akama-Diakonov-Wetterich theory by introducing the Planck constants \hbar and / ⁣ ⁣h=c{/\!\!h}=\hbar c as elements of the emergent metric. The inverse Planck constant 1/1/\hbar has the dimension of frequency, and, therefore, the mass MM of a particle, which has the dimension ω\hbar\omega, is dimensionless. In this extension, quantum mechanics emerges from the intrinsic quantum fields either in the symmetry breaking mechanism (GUT), or in the opposite mechanism of emergent symmetry in the low-energy corner (anti-GUT). In both cases, quantum mechanics (QM) serves as a bridge between the area of quantum fields (QFT) in the limit 1/01/\hbar \rightarrow 0, and the area of classical physics (CM) in the limit 0\hbar \rightarrow 0. In the GUT scheme the inverse Planck constants, 1/1/\hbar and 1/! ⁣h1/{\\!\!h}, play the role of the order parameter of the symmetry breaking phase transition from the pre-geometric QFT state to the QM state, in which the quantum mechanics emerges together with the space-time metric. In this phase transition, the integration over field variables in the QFT phase transforms to a path integral formulation of QM, which in turn yields the laws of classical mechanics in the limit 1/1/\hbar \rightarrow \infty.

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@article{arxiv.2602.21243,
  title  = {Quantum and Classical mechanics vs QFT},
  author = {G. E. Volovik},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.21243},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

14 pages, no figures, devoted to 15 years of Dmitry Diakonov paper "Towards lattice-regularized Quantum Gravity", arXiv:1109.0091

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