Abstract The Energy-Consciousness Observer Framework (ECOF) predicts that observer-field coupling introduces small, structured deviations in particle decay observables that scale with rest mass. If this coupling depends on local coherence gradients in the laboratory environment, measurable correlations should emerge between independent leptonic decay channels across LHC operational periods. We propose a specific, falsifiable test: fill-to-fill fluctuations in H→μμ and Z→μμ signal strengths should exhibit temporal correlations with coefficient r = 0.40 ± 0.15 after luminosity corrections. This correlation should disappear under time-scrambling (r < 0.1) and scale with lepton mass. The analysis uses existing Run 3 data, requires no new detector capabilities, and provides clear null controls. A positive result would constitute evidence for environment-dependent quantum coupling effects; a null result would constrain ECOF coherence-gradient models at the sub-percent level.
Abstract The Energy-Consciousness Observer Framework (ECOF) predicts that observer-field coupling introduces small, structured deviations in particle decay observables that scale with rest mass. If this coupling depends on local coherence gradients in the laboratory environment, measurable correlations should emerge between independent leptonic decay channels across LHC operational periods. We propose a specific, falsifiable test: fill-to-fill fluctuations in H→μμ and Z→μμ signal strengths should exhibit temporal correlations with coefficient r = 0.40 ± 0.15 after luminosity corrections. This correlation should disappear under time-scrambling (r < 0.1) and scale with lepton mass. The analysis uses existing Run 3 data, requires no new detector capabilities, and provides clear null controls. A positive result would constitute evidence for environment-dependent quantum coupling effects; a null result would constrain ECOF coherence-gradient models at the sub-percent level.
Experimental practice in high-energy physics relies on an implicit methodological assumption: that the quantum coherence of a well-defined subsystem can be treated as independent of the global structural complexity of the entire event. While this assumption underlies standard factorized descriptions and has proven extraordinarily successful, it has not been explicitly formulated nor empirically tested as a standalone hypothesis. This work makes that implicit assumption explicit and proposes a systematic empirical test of coherence invariance with respect to global event complexity. The contribution is methodological rather than phenomenological: no new particles, mechanisms, or specific experimental effects are predicted. Instead, the paper formulates a falsifiable null hypothesis asserting statistical consistency of a subsystem coherence observable across variations in event-level structural complexity, and outlines a conceptual experimental protocol suitable for LHC environments. The proposal is deliberately distinct from standard decoherence or open-quantum-system analyses. It does not model environmental coupling or dynamical loss of coherence, but tests the empirical validity of the commonly assumed independence between subsystem-level quantum correlations and global many-body event structure. By identifying coherence invariance itself as an empirical assumption and rendering it testable, this work delineates the domain of validity of factorized quantum descriptions in high-energy experiments and provides a clean methodological framework for future experimental scrutiny.
We present a laboratory-constrained phenomenological framework linking controlled quantum coherence experiments to large-scale cosmological observables. Using experimental results from superconducting qubits subjected to structured low-frequency toroidal magnetic fields, we define a dimensionless coherence proxy, κ_lab = 0.728 ± 0.020, which captures both temporal decoherence suppression and spatial field uniformity. This observable is derived directly from measured enhancements in qubit relaxation time (T1), without modification to materials or circuit design. We then introduce a calibrated laboratory-to-cosmology bridge, mapping κ_lab into an effective coupling parameter within a coherence-driven cosmological framework. This mapping enables a quantitative pre-data prediction for an environmental modulation of the Hubble expansion rate:ΔH0/H0 = 0.73^{+0.21}_{-0.18}%,for the benchmark regime m_φ ~ H0 and α = 1. The key contribution of this work is not the assumption of a confirmed cross-scale mechanism, but the construction of a transparent and falsifiable bridge between a laboratory-measured coherence observable and a cosmological testable quantity. The prediction lies within the sensitivity range of DESI Year 3, enabling a clear binary test: • Detection of a ~0.5–1.0% environmental step supports the viability of scale-bridging coherence dynamics.• A null result constrains the phenomenological bridge while preserving the laboratory result as an independent demonstration of environmental coherence engineering. This approach establishes a new paradigm in which controlled quantum systems can serve as quantitative anchors for testing phenomenological extensions of large-scale physics, connecting laboratory coherence and cosmological expansion in a falsifiable framework.
This work derives a conservative, operational consequence of the Scalar Temporal Field Ontology (STFO), in which time is modeled as a physical scalar field τ(xμ)\tau(x^\mu)τ(xμ) whose timelike gradient defines a preferred notion of evolution. We show that any two-path interference experiment (optical or matter-wave) yields a quantitative bound on unresolved temporal path-difference fluctuations. Interferometric visibility is identified with the characteristic function of the temporal fluctuation δΔτ\delta\Delta\tauδΔτ, leading to a model-independent constraint on the root-mean-square temporal noise in terms of the measured visibility and the experiment’s phase-generating energy scale. The analysis is intentionally operational and conservative. It does not modify standard quantum probabilities and is compatible with conventional environmental decoherence, appearing as an additional multiplicative coherence factor. Null results therefore impose direct experimental bounds on temporal-field fluctuations within the STFO framework. This paper interfaces quantum foundations, interferometry, and the problem of time, and provides a falsifiable, experiment-facing bridge between the Scalar Temporal Field Ontology and precision laboratory tests.
This work introduces a minimal and operational framework for describing decoherence in open quantum systems as a finite-time process. Rather than proposing a new dynamical theory or modifying the axioms of quantum mechanics, the article introduces a bounded, causal, and dimensionless scalar quantity — a local temporal coherence field C(x,t), designed to diagnose the persistence of temporal correlations over a finite causal window. The coherence field is constructed from experimentally accessible observables or reduced-state quantities via a kernel-weighted causal average. It does not represent a new physical degree of freedom and does not introduce additional equations of motion. Instead, it provides a compact diagnostic layer that makes the finite-time structure of coherence explicit, complementing standard descriptions based on memory kernels, time-dependent generators, and Lindblad master equations. The framework is shown to interface naturally with non-Markovian dynamics, coherence-weighted decoherence processes, and effective decay rates, while remaining consistent with standard GKSL structures in the appropriate limits. Its scope, limitations, and relation to existing non-Markovianity measures are explicitly discussed. The coherence-field perspective is intended as an operational and experimentally falsifiable diagnostic tool, applicable across a range of contemporary platforms where finite-time coherence effects are relevant (e.g. superconducting circuits, hybrid light–matter systems, and driven non-equilibrium regimes).This article forms part of the broader Ranesis conceptual framework, which investigates the role of finite-time persistence, coherence, and temporal organization across physical and informational systems. Within that context, the present work constitutes a self-contained and domain-specific application to open quantum systems. No assumptions, postulates, or formal structures from the broader framework are required to read or validate the results presented here.
A bstract Quantum entanglement is a fundamental property of quantum mechanics. Recently, studies have explored entanglement in the tt t t ¯ system at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) when both the top quark and anti-top quark decay leptonically. Entanglement is detected via correlations between the polarizations of the top and anti-top and these polarizations are measured through the angles of the decay products of the top and anti-top. In this work, we propose searching for evidence of quantum entanglement in the semi-leptonic decay channel where the final state includes one lepton, one neutrino, two b -flavor tagged jets, and two light jets from the W decay. We find that this channel is both easier to reconstruct and has a larger effective quantity of data than the fully leptonic channel. As a result, the semi-leptonic channel is 60% more sensitive to quantum entanglement and a factor of 3 more sensitive to Bell inequality violation, compared to the leptonic channel. In 139 fb − 1 (3 ab −1 ) of data at the LHC (HL-LHC), it should be feasible to measure entanglement at a precision of ≲ 3% (0 . 7%). Detecting Bell inequality violation, on the other hand, is more challenging. With 300 fb −1 (3 ab −1 ) of integrated luminosity at the LHC Run-3 (HL-LHC), we expect a sensitivity of 1 . 3 σ (4 . 1 σ ). In our study, we utilize a realistic parametric fitting procedure to optimally recover the true angular distributions from detector effects. Compared to unfolding this procedure yields more stable results.
This short paper presents an experimentally testable prediction about coherence management in quantum systems, derived from a general field-theoretic framework.The result is intentionally narrow: it identifies a specific environmental parameter that should influence qubit stability, decoherence rates, and the performance of trapped-atom, superconducting, and photonic platforms. The paper outlines: a clear physical mechanism, the expected direction and magnitude of the effect, conditions under which the signal should be strongest, how to distinguish it from noise or substrate-dependent artifacts, and a set of simple experiments that current quantum laboratories can run immediately. No new hardware is required — only controlled variation of coherence-relevant environmental parameters that most labs already monitor.If verified, the effect offers a new handle for improving qubit lifetimes and reducing error rates, and provides an independent probe of how macroscopic coherence affects quantum information flow. The paper is designed to be fully falsifiable.A null result would place clean constraints on the underlying framework; a positive result would open a new experimental pathway for coherence engineering.