The Emerging Quantum

William M. Honig

Jincheng Zhang

In this paper we introduce a novel theoretical framework called Self‑Emergent Law Dynamics (SELD) that describes how local effective laws can arise spontaneously within large‑scale quantum systems. The central proposition of SELD is that the collective behavior of many interacting quantum degrees of freedom can give rise to emergent dynamical equations that are not evident in the microscopic Hamiltonian but become locally valid over certain spatial and temporal scales. We develop a mathematical description of SELD, define the local effective law L_eff(x), and discuss how quantum simulators can be employed to explore and validate these emergent phenomena. The potential breakthroughs of this approach include new insights into the emergence of classical physics from quantum mechanics, the design of adaptive quantum materials, and novel mechanisms for controlling quantum dynamics in engineered systems. By focusing on the dynamics rather than static properties, SELD opens a pathway to understanding how physical laws themselves may be dynamic, context‑dependent, and capable of self‑organization in complex quantum environments.

Michael Anderson

Wallace Chipidza, Yan Li, Atefeh Mashatan +2 more

Emerging technologies have a high potential for impact and are worthy of attention by the Information Systems (IS) community. To date, the IS discipline has not been able to be a leader in the research and teaching of emerging technologies in their early stages arguably because: (1) IS researchers often lack knowledge of the foundational principles of such emerging technologies, and (2) during the emerging phase, there is insufficient data on the adoption, use, and impact of these technologies. To overcome these challenges, the IS discipline must be willing to break its own disciplinary research boundaries to go beyond software applications and their related management issues and start studying emerging technologies before they are massively adopted by industry. In this paper, we use quantum computing as an exemplar emerging technology and outline a research and education agenda that will help IS harness the opportunities quantum computing offers. We propose that IS researchers rigorously investigate emergent technologies through collaboration with researchers from other disciplines. We also see a role for IS researchers in the scholarship of emerging technologies and in the process of introducing emerging technologies into IS curricula.

Alexander Franklin

Abstract The modern Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics describes an emergent multiverse. The goal of this paper is to provide a perspicuous characterisation of how the multiverse emerges making use of a recent account of (weak) ontological emergence. This will be cashed out with a case study that identifies decoherence as the mechanism for emergence. The greater metaphysical clarity enables the rebuttal of critiques due to Baker (2007) and Dawid and Thébault (2015) that cast the emergent multiverse ontology as incoherent; responses are also offered to challenges to the Everettian approach from Maudlin (2010) and Monton (2013).

John C. Taylor