Four revolutions in physics and the second quantum revolution -- a unification of force and matter by quantum information

Xiao-Gang Wen

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Four revolutions in physics and the second quantum revolution -- a unification of force and matter by quantum information

Xiao-Gang Wen

General Physics · Submitted 28 Aug 2017

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The authors' main claim In other words, the new world view suggests that elementary particles (the bosonic force particles and fermionic matter particles) all originated from quantum information (qubits): they are collective excitations of an entangled qubit ocean that corresponds to our space.

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CitationXiao-Gang Wen. "Four revolutions in physics and the second quantum revolution -- a unification of force and matter by quantum information." arXiv:1709.03824 (2017). https://pith.science/paper/6PXTJ24Y

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Newton's mechanical revolution unifies the motion of planets in the sky and falling of apple on earth. Maxwell's electromagnetic revolution unifies electricity, magnetism, and light. Einstein's relativity revolution unifies space with time, and gravity with space-time distortion. The quantum revolution unifies particle with waves, and energy with frequency. Each of those revolution changes our world view. In this article, we will describe a revolution that is happening now: the second quantum revolution which unifies matter/space with information. In other words, the new world view suggests that elementary particles (the bosonic force particles and fermionic matter particles) all originated from quantum information (qubits): they are collective excitations of an entangled qubit ocean that corresponds to our space. The beautiful geometric Yang-Mills gauge theory and the strange Fermi statistics of matter particles now have a common algebraic quantum informational origin.

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Newton's mechanical revolution unifies the motion of planets in the sky and falling of apple on earth. Maxwell's electromagnetic revolution unifies electricity, magnetism, and light. Einstein's relativity revolution unifies space with time, and gravity with space-time distortion. The quantum revolution unifies particle with waves, and energy with frequency. Each of those revolution changes our world view. In this article, we will describe a revolution that is happening now: the second quantum revolution which unifies matter/space with information. In other words, the new world view suggests that elementary particles (the bosonic force particles and fermionic matter particles) all originated from quantum information (qubits): they are collective excitations of an entangled qubit ocean that corresponds to our space. The beautiful geometric Yang-Mills gauge theory and the strange Fermi statistics of matter particles now have a common algebraic quantum informational origin.

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Through the years the emergence principle has been extremely useful in condensed matter physics (CMP) (see for instance, [ref] ).

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So the impossible become possible: all elementary particles (the bosonic force particles and fermionic matter particles) can emerge from long range entangled qubit ether and be unified by quantum information [ref] .

Emergence of helicity +/- 2 modes (gravitons) from qubit models · It from qubit, not bit – A second quantum revolution · 1.00
So the impossible become possible: all elementary particles (the bosonic force particles and fermionic matter particles) can emerge from long range entangled qubit ether and be unified by quantum information [ref] .

Topological order: from long-range entangled quantum matter to an unification of light and electrons · It from qubit, not bit – A second quantum revolution · 1.00
So the impossible become possible: all elementary particles (the bosonic force particles and fermionic matter particles) can emerge from long range entangled qubit ether and be unified by quantum information [ref] .

A lattice non-perturbative definition of an SO(10) chiral gauge theory and its induced standard model · It from qubit, not bit – A second quantum revolution · 1.00

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