The Gauge Symmetry of the Third Kind and Quantum Mechanics as an Infrared Limit
arXiv:hep-th/0605154 · doi:10.1142/S0219749907002657
Abstract
We introduce functional degrees of freedom by a new gauge principle related to the phase of the wave functional. Thus, quantum mechanical systems are dissipatively embedded into a nonlinear classical dynamical structure. There is a necessary fundamental length, besides an entropy/area parameter, and standard couplings. For states that are sufficiently spread over configuration space, quantum field theory is recovered.
7 pages. To appear in International Journal of Quantum Information. Talk at "Advances in Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information with Atoms and Photons", Torino, May 2-5, 2006