0604142v1

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{field, particle, equation}
{energy, gaussian, time}
{phase, path, phys}
{theory, mechanics, state}
{time, decoherence, evolution}
{information, entropy, channel}
{bell, inequality, local}
{equation, function, exp}
{measurement, state, measurements}

Gauge Symmetry of the Third Kind and Quantum Mechanics as an Infrared Phenomenon

Hans-Thomas Elze

abstract: We introduce functional degrees of freedom by a new gauge principle related to the phase of the wave functional. Thereby, quantum mechanical systems are seen as dissipatively embedded part of a nonlinear classical structure producing universal correlations. There are a fundamental length and an entropy/area parameter, besides standard couplings. For states that are sufficiently spread over configuration space, quantum field theory is recovered.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0604142
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
12 pages. To appear in the Festschrift "A Sense of Beauty in Physics" dedicated to Adriano Di Giacomo on occasion of his 70th birthday
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0604142
journal_ref:
Sense of Beauty in Physics: A Volume in Honour of Adriano Di Giacomo, edited by M. D'Elia, K. Konishi, E. Meggiolaro, P. Rossi (Edizioni Plus, Pisa University Press, Pisa, 2006), 275-286
created:
2006-04-19

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