MetaTime v41: Quantum Transitions as Information Erasure – Deriving the Photon from Landauer's Principle
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| contents | <p>Standard physics correctly predicts that an excited electron decays to a lower orbital and emits<br>a photon, yet its explanatory nucleus is tautological: “the system minimizes energy.” Energy<br>is treated as primitive, and the reason the Universe exports energy to the vacuum is delegated<br>to spontaneous emission postulates or to an external reservoir, without an information-theoretic<br>accounting of the discarded degrees of freedom. Building on MetaTime Modelo 3, where the<br>Standard Model is formulated as a boundary open effective field theory (open-EFT) with a causal nonMarkovian influence functional characterized by a running latency ΓL(µ), we propose a mechanistic<br>reinterpretation: an excited orbital is not merely “higher energy” but a state of higher algorithmic<br>complexity—a larger bulk entanglement wedge footprint required to stabilize its boundary geometry<br>against vacuum noise. Orbital relaxation is a compression event that erases a definite information<br>budget ∆I into the traced-out bath. By Landauer’s principle, erasing ∆I bits must dissipate energy<br>E ≥ kBTeff ln 2 ∆I. We identify the emitted photon as this mandatory Landauer export and treat its<br>frequency ω as the bath’s erasure clock rate, yielding the exchange relation Eγ ≃ ℏω ≃ kBTeff ln 2 ∆I.<br>The Planck relation thus emerges as an informational exchange rate: Planck’s constant is the “price<br>of a bit” evaluated at the vacuum’s effective erasure temperature. For the hydrogen Lyman-α<br>transition 2p → 1s in free vacuum, defining ∆I via a Jensen–Shannon information metric on orbital<br>probability densities gives ∆I2p→1s = 0.64079 bits and implies an effective erasure temperature<br>Teff ≃ 2.66 × 105 K. We outline falsifiable extensions in which Teff and ΓL become environmentally<br>tunable (cavity QED, dense media), producing correlated deviations in line shapes and relaxation<br>pathways beyond standard QED vacuum fluctuations.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | MetaTime v41: Quantum Transitions as Information Erasure – Deriving the Photon from Landauer's Principle Peyru, Dario Landauer's Principle, Information Erasure, Jensen-Shannon Divergence, Quantum Thermodynamics, Lyman-alpha transition, Orbital Complexity, Shannon Entropy, Vacuum Energy, Quantum Information. <p>Standard physics correctly predicts that an excited electron decays to a lower orbital and emits<br>a photon, yet its explanatory nucleus is tautological: “the system minimizes energy.” Energy<br>is treated as primitive, and the reason the Universe exports energy to the vacuum is delegated<br>to spontaneous emission postulates or to an external reservoir, without an information-theoretic<br>accounting of the discarded degrees of freedom. Building on MetaTime Modelo 3, where the<br>Standard Model is formulated as a boundary open effective field theory (open-EFT) with a causal nonMarkovian influence functional characterized by a running latency ΓL(µ), we propose a mechanistic<br>reinterpretation: an excited orbital is not merely “higher energy” but a state of higher algorithmic<br>complexity—a larger bulk entanglement wedge footprint required to stabilize its boundary geometry<br>against vacuum noise. Orbital relaxation is a compression event that erases a definite information<br>budget ∆I into the traced-out bath. By Landauer’s principle, erasing ∆I bits must dissipate energy<br>E ≥ kBTeff ln 2 ∆I. We identify the emitted photon as this mandatory Landauer export and treat its<br>frequency ω as the bath’s erasure clock rate, yielding the exchange relation Eγ ≃ ℏω ≃ kBTeff ln 2 ∆I.<br>The Planck relation thus emerges as an informational exchange rate: Planck’s constant is the “price<br>of a bit” evaluated at the vacuum’s effective erasure temperature. For the hydrogen Lyman-α<br>transition 2p → 1s in free vacuum, defining ∆I via a Jensen–Shannon information metric on orbital<br>probability densities gives ∆I2p→1s = 0.64079 bits and implies an effective erasure temperature<br>Teff ≃ 2.66 × 105 K. We outline falsifiable extensions in which Teff and ΓL become environmentally<br>tunable (cavity QED, dense media), producing correlated deviations in line shapes and relaxation<br>pathways beyond standard QED vacuum fluctuations.</p> |
| title | MetaTime v41: Quantum Transitions as Information Erasure – Deriving the Photon from Landauer's Principle |
| topic | Landauer's Principle, Information Erasure, Jensen-Shannon Divergence, Quantum Thermodynamics, Lyman-alpha transition, Orbital Complexity, Shannon Entropy, Vacuum Energy, Quantum Information. |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18624266 |