The Universe from a Single Particle II
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 and , and in this work we see spontaneously decomposing as and very curiously (and ) 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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