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The Universe from a Single Particle II

High Energy Physics - Theory 2021-10-19 v2 Mathematical Physics Differential Geometry math.MP

Abstract

We continue to explore, in the context of a toy model, the hypothesis that the interacting universe we see around us could result from single particle (undergraduate) quantum mechanics via a novel spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) acting at the level of probability distributions on Hamiltonians (rather than on states as is familiar from both Ginzburg-Landau superconductivity and the Higgs mechanism). In an earlier paper [7] we saw qubit structure emerge spontaneously on C4\mathbb{C}^4 and C8\mathbb{C}^8, and in this work we see C6\mathbb{C}^6 spontaneously decomposing as C2C3\mathbb{C}^2\otimes \mathbb{C}^3 and very curiously C5\mathbb{C}^5 (and C7\mathbb{C}^7) splitting off one (one or three) directions and then factoring. This evidence provides additional support for the broad hypothesis: Nature will seek out tensor decompositions where none are present. We consider how this finding may form a basis for the origins of interaction and ask if it can be related to established foundational discussions such as string theory.

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@article{arxiv.2108.12709,
  title  = {The Universe from a Single Particle II},
  author = {Michael Freedman and Modjtaba Shokrian Zini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12709},
  year   = {2021}
}

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