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Contextual unification of classical and quantum physics

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arxiv 2209.01463 v2 pith:ENUOPNML submitted 2022-09-03 quant-ph physics.hist-ph

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Following an article by John von Neumann on infinite tensor products, we develop the idea that the usual formalism of quantum mechanics, associated with unitary equivalence of representations, stops working when countable infinities of particles (or degrees of freedom) are encountered. This is because the dimension of the corresponding Hilbert space becomes uncountably infinite, leading to the loss of unitary equivalence, and to sectorization. By interpreting physically this mathematical fact, we show that it provides a natural way to describe the "Heisenberg cut", as well as a unified mathematical model including both quantum and classical physics, appearing as required incommensurable facets in the description of nature.

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  1. Heading towards an Algebraic Heisenberg Cut

    quant-ph 2024-12 reject novelty 5.0 of 10

    The paper models photon detection with avalanche diodes to argue that Hilbert-space sectorisation, not environmental decoherence, makes measurement outcomes classical, but the central overlap calculation is inconsistent.

  2. Double-Exponential Quasi-Orthogonality: The Geometry of Decoherence

    quant-ph 2026-05 accept novelty 4.0 of 10

    Quasi-orthogonal packing capacity of a D-dimensional Hilbert space is exponential in D (doubly exponential in particle number), so typical environmental branch overlaps are exponentially small in entropy.

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