Quantum information dynamics intrinsic to the Standard Model

by Jeffrey Yepez (University of Hawaii)

Tuesday Oct 30, 2018, 3:00 PM → 4:00 PM Pacific/Honolulu

W417A

Presented is a quantum informational explanation of the gauge group structure of the Standard Model. This explanation relies upon several basic constraints on the particle dynamics allowable in nature. If the Standard Model can be faithfully represented on a fermionic quantum computer, then the dynamical evolution of the particles and fields in nature must be reducible to a unitary quantum algorithm. An heuristic construction of this unitary quantum algorithm is presented leading to a quantum information dynamics model (implemented on a qubit array) that contains the Standard Model. One major departure from quantum field theory is that the qubit array represents quantized space--in the form of a tensor product space with eight qubits per point, where each qubit carries its own (weighted) spin angular momentum. The unitarity of the quantum information dynamics model guarantees conservation of probability.  Along with local probability conservation at each point, bit number (color) and angular momentum are also conserved. The particle content of the Standard Model particle is represented by a generating function in polynomial form.