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A Calculable Toy Model of Quantum Information Transfer Between Localised Branes via a Continuum Bulk Bath: An Improved and Explicitly Derived Mathematical-Physics Framework

PRASANTA GHOSH

Published Oct 8, 2026• 0 citations
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We present a fully explicit toy model of quantum information transfer between two three-dimensional hypersurfaces (branes) embedded in a four-dimensional bulk filled with a continuum of bosonic modes. Starting from a Randall-Sundrum-type warped geometry, we write the system-bath Hamiltonian, perform the Born-Markov approximation, and derive the Lindblad master equation that governs the reduced dynamics of two localised qubits. For an Ohmic spectral density with high-frequency cutoff we obtain closed-form expressions for the amplitude-damping rate Γ_A, the retention factor η(t) = e^(-Γ_A t) on the source brane, and a controlled upper bound on the excitation-transfer probability to the destination brane that depends on the spectral width and the coordinate separation Δw. Contemporary laboratory bounds (coherence times >10 h in decoherence-free trapped-ion clocks and ~10 s in isotopically engineered NV centres) translate into stringent upper limits on the bulk coupling. The model is deliberately minimal and free of any reference to consciousness or cosmology; its purpose is to supply a transparent, experimentally constrained language for inter-brane quantum communication.

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10.5281/zenodo.23233516

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