A New Paradigm in Quantum Fields: The Quantum Oscillator with Semi-Quanta (IQuO) (Part Two) ()
1. Introduction
In physics, the law is known that particles with opposite electric charges attract each other while particles having the same electric charge repel each other. In this article we show the origin of this fundamental aspect of interactions between particles. This is possible in the context of an unprecedented representation of the oscillator of a quantum field (IQuO) that derives from an in-depth study of its structure. In the first part [1] of a study (in phase of submission in JHEPGC) on the field oscillator, its structure IQuO was represented, where IQuO is the acronym for Intrinsic Quantum Oscillator [2] [3]. IQuO can be described by a structure of sub-oscillators crossed by semi-quanta of energy without altering the physical law of interactions in which energy is transmitted by “integer” quanta between interacting particles.
We saw that by using the structure of an IQuO, it is possible to associate the sign of an electric charge with the direction clockwise and counterclockwise of the rotation of the phase associated with the oscillation of the wave representing a particle having an electric charge. This would explain the physical origin of the double sign of the electric charge because this is just represented by of the two directions of rotation of the phase. In this article, we show that using a boson-type IQuO (see the photon), it is possible to detect the direction of rotation of the phase of a Fermion-type IQuO (an electron) from its “double” behavior, the “repulsive” one and “attractive”, with other charged particles. Again, through the IQuO representation, we will show that the process of interaction between two particle-fields (Φ1, Φ2) develops in two stages: a “no-dynamic” first stage, with the mutual phase shift action between the respective oscillators, to achieve the coupling, and a “dynamic” second phase, with exchanging semi-quanta pairs [sq(•,•)] (or integer quanta) of energy to realize the interaction. In the first stage, see sect. 2.1, the process of reducing the wave function associated with a particle-field through the action of an OR reduction operator is described. The reduction process [(OR(ϕ) ≡ Ok), (OR(ϕ) ≡ Ox)], with (Ok, Ox) projection operators in eigenstates, takes place at the beginning of the coupling between any two IQuO (I1, I2) of two field-particles (Φ1, Φ2) realized by exchanging semi-quants (operator Oε) that induce mutual phase shifts (operator Oϕ) in the respective membership chains (C1,C2) of the field oscillators. The action of these two operators is simultaneously associated with the action of complementary operators (
,
) that transform eigenstates into nonlocal states. We show that the simultaneous action of the two operators
expresses the Heisenberg uncertainty principle (ΔxΔk ≥ 2π). The reduction process thus makes it possible to carry out the coupling of two fields (Φ1, Φ2), see section 2.2, which precedes the interaction between the respective particles. The initial phase of coupling (Φ1, Φ2) is described by a nondynamic OR reduction operation with mutual phase shifts (Δ1 = −Δ2) and exchange of semi-quants, [OR = (O(x,k) ≡ Oϕ) ⋅ Oε ]. After the OR reduction phase, the interaction phase (⊕) with integer quantum exchange (Oε) takes over. To express the interaction between the two fields mathematically, in Sect.2.3, a composite operation acting on the two fields is then introduced: (Φ1 ⊕ Φ2) where [⊕ ≡ OR ⋅ ⊕]. The interaction thus can be represented by a composite operation consisting of a reducing action and then a combining operation of the reduced states. In Sect. 2.3, 2.4 and in Sect. 2.5 briefly shows what emerged in the first part of the study on IQuO: the existence of Field-IQuO “monoverse” in direction of phase rotation, two IQuO types (F-IQuO for Fermions and B-IQuO for bosons), the processes of pair creation with F-IQuO and annihilation in two B-IQuO bosons and the sign of electric charge (±e) expressed by the two directions of phase rotation. In sect. 3.1 we show geometrically that the coupling between a CB chain, composed of B-IQuO, and a CF chain, composed of F-IQuO, determines a change in the direction of the CB chain. In Sect. 3.2, we then show geometrically that two chains of F-IQuO (F1, F2), can couple even when placed far apart, via an intermediary CB-chain, which induces correlated phase shifts on the two respective extreme IQuO (I1, I2). In this way, see the Sect. 3.3, a coupling between two distant particles in space is described in terms of “quantum entanglement” showing that the two (F1, F2) chains diverge if they have the same direction of phase rotation (that is electric charges of the same sign) while they converge if they have opposite direction (that is electric charges of opposite sign), see the Sect. 3.4. This thus demonstrates why electric charges of the same sign repel each other while those with opposite signs attract each other. This completes the study undertaken on the quantum oscillator (IQuO) by thus demonstrating that the sign of the electric charge is connected to the direction of the phase rotation of the wave function associated with a particle.
2. The Reduction Process in IQuO-Representation
2.1. The Process of Wave Function Reduction
In the first part [1] of our study on the quantum field oscillator, we formulated a new representation of it in terms of sub-oscillators traversed by semi-quanta. The field oscillator expressed in this form has been denoted as IQuO and we have associated with it the IQuO-representation, see also ref. [2]-[4]. Consider two particles expressed by their respective scalar fields (1, 2), given by [5]:
(1)
where it is:
(2)
where we denote by (ϕk = k⋅x) the instantaneous phase of the oscillation relative to the k-mode associated with the wave function Φ. We will show that in the IQuO representation the interaction between two particle-fields (1, 2) takes place in two stages: the first stage is the “non-dynamic” process of wave function reduction while the second stage is the “dynamic” process of interaction. As is well known, the interaction between two particles occurs when there is an exchange of energy between them. If the particles are represented by extended fields, the coupling between the two particle-fields (1, 2) is obtained in space through a “local” elastic coupling between any two IQuO (I1, I2) of these two fields. This is because the exchange of energy between two particles cannot occur at all points of their respective representative fields. This condition leads us to admit, once again, the process of reduction of the wave function in quantum field theory (collapse of the wave function). In this way, if the interaction between particles implies an exchange of “integer” quanta of energy governed by the Hamiltonian H of the interacting system, it is intuitive to admit that the reduction process “precedes” the interaction and therefore cannot be described by the Hamiltonian of the system. This consideration implies a profound revision of the famous problem of the collapse of the wave function present in Quantum Mechanics (QM). If, for the QM, observing for an observer means “interacting”, it becomes mandatory to introduce the observer, with its instruments of observation and measure, into the Hamiltonian of the system as well. This gives rise to the problem of the boundary between the macroscopic and microscopic realities of physics. However, we must not forget the duplicity of behavior of a particle (wave-corpuscular), which leads us to represent it as a “field-quantum” so if we admit a “point interaction” between two particles, with an exchange of energy, we must admit that the respective fields must “reduce” to two local oscillators in mutual “elastic coupling” with each other. Even today, a definitive solution to these two aspects (the measurement problem or observation and the reduction problem) there is not in literature of QM. However, if we demonstrate in the IQuO representation, even thanks to the theory of oscillations and waves, that the interaction between particles, including also the interaction present in measuring instruments, is “subsequent” (tR < tint) to a reduction process from a non-local to a local state of the oscillator fields, then the two problems mentioned above are on the way to a probable and definitive solution. This would mean that the reduction process is separate from the interaction process and that it takes place in a different way. This is possible if one assumes that:
The reduction process concerns a physical system that can in any case be traced back to a system of oscillators
The reduction process would occur in the “initial” phase of a random elastic coupling between any two IQuO-oscillators (I1, I2) of two respective fields (1, 2) where each of these, for descriptive simplicity, can be represented by a lattice of “j-chains” (Cj)i, each of them composed of coupled oscillators
The reduction process manifests itself through reciprocal phase shifts (phase variation) between oscillators that reciprocally couple
The phase shifts between (I1, I2) propagate at the phase propagation velocity vϕ > c, as predicted by wave theory, along their respective belonging chains (C1, C2)
The phase shifts are produced by exchanges of sq(•,o) pair between the field oscillators without, however, involving exchanges of “integer” quanta or pairs of sq(•,•)
This last assert defines the reduction process as a “non-dynamic action”: the exchange (see refer [4]) of a pair (•,o) between two IQuO (I1, I2) does not imply the presence of interaction (!) between the two particles. Therefore, it is the “initial” phase shifts produced by the exchanges of sq(•,o) between two IQuO (I1, I2) that “reduces” the physical system represented by the two respective fields (1, 2).
We note that at the end of the reduction process the coupling between the two IQuO (I1, I2) can result, see the one part [1] and ref. [4], in two configurations (A, B), see Figure 1:
Figure 1. Final configurations in reduction stage of two IQuO couplings.
These configurations [(Φ1 ⊕ Φ2)a, (Φ1 ⊕ Φ2)]b are given by adaptation phase shifts caused by sq switching from a sub-oscillator of I1 to that of I2 and vice versa. Energy exchange with phase shift between sq occurs between full sq (•) and empty sq (o) that is (• ⌠ o). When these configurations are reached, simultaneous exchange of two pairs (• ⌠ o) and thus an integer quantum (•, •) is possible, thus opening the “dynamic” interaction phase. In Figure 1(a), the I1-IQuO overlaps on the I2-IQuO: the exchange of energy between full and empty sq (• ⌠ o) results in the possibility of originating a pair of IQuO single-moving in two opposite directions (r) of phase rotation (that is the operators (a, a+) of each IQuO all have the same direction of rotation (r)). In Figure 1(b), a sub-oscillator of I1 overlaps on the sub-oscillator of I2: in this case, initiates a dynamic interaction phase of elastic and inelastic type between the particles.
The nondynamic process of reduction can be associated with an OR operator [6] [7] that acts in two different ways, OR ≡ (Ox, Ok):
1) Reduction to an eigenstate |ki〉 relative of the moment pi (with pi = hki) to a ki-mode of oscillation: OR ≡ Ok
2) Reduction to a local eigenstate |xi〉 of the position xi: OR ≡ Ox
First case OR ≡ Ok
In the first case, the action of a reduction operator Ok will then only be focused on the operator qk of in Equation (2), acting by phase shift [exp(iϕs)] on the qki oscillation mode, where s∈ (k1… kn). So, the Ok operator reduces the state vector to an eigenstate Φs: [Ok Φ = Φs](k = s), where Ok is a projection operator (|ki〉 〈ki| with k(k = s)= (|s〉〈s|). A due note: the physics presented here can be verified in any physics laboratory with teaching aids such as a “slinky” [8]. Recall that to induce a mode of oscillation an external force must act, see the experiments by a slinky:
1) with the same frequency as that of the k-mode: ωest = ωk
2) in an impulsive manner (see the swing example) at a given point (xi) but in ϕ-phase (phase concordance) with the oscillation at that point of the k-mode: ϕest (xi) = ϕk (xi).
In this last case (concordant phase shift) the chains (C1, C2) can assume the mode characterized by the wavelength λ(ki). We remember that along a chain of elastically coupled oscillators (Ik), a “constructive” superposition of oscillation modes can arise generating the so-called “wave packet”. Let us consider the state vector Φ describing a wave packet. For simplicity, we set [α = β = 0, r = +1] in Equation (2); it follows [5]:
(3)
Which we can represent in the following form:
(4)
where (pk ⋅ xk)/h = (kx − ωkt). We express by means of a column matrix the non-local state in k (with k = 2π/λk), that is Φ(k) for [h]:
(5)
The action of a “reduction operator” Ok will then only be focused on the operator Aki of Equation (3). This operator can be regarded as a “projector” |k〉〈k| and will correspond to the product of three matrices A × B × C. The first matrix (A) correspond to the phase shift matrix {φsk = exp[i(ϕs − ϕk)]}, with [k = (k1,….kn), s = (s1,….sn)](k≡s), ϕk are the characteristic phases of k-modes and exp(ϕs) is the phase shift produced by I1 on the I2. We demonstrate, see the Equation (5), that {φsk ⋅ Φ(k) = λΦ(k)}, that is Φ(ki) are eigenstates of the phase shifts matrix φsk. The second (B) matrix is a diagonal matrix (δik), therefore we will have: an Oik matrix-operator consisting of
where the unique value s∈ (k1,..., kn). In matrix form it is:
(6)
The third matrix (C) is another diagonal matrix δsk(Ak); therefore, we will have:
The OR ≡ Ok action on the Φ(k) is:
(7)
thus obtaining, after reduction, a single eigenstate Φ(ks = s) or an oscillation mode with λs.
Second case OR ≡ Ox
Let us consider the reduction of the field to a local eigenstate of position |xi〉. If the phase shifts are different from [exp(-iϕs)], that is “discordant”, then no oscillation mode is formed, and the two fields are reduced to the two oscillators (I1, I2) that are coupling. The “discordant” phase shift propagates along all the chains of the field at superluminal phase velocity (that is for spatial intervals) breaking the phase concordance between the contiguous oscillators and thus “destroying” the various monochromatic modes of oscillation of the chains (eigenstates Φk) and those of even a possible wave packet propagating along a chain. Discordant phase shifts induce along the chain an “indeterminate” (or “uncertainty”) state in the k-modes, consistent with the axioms of the quantum mechanics. This step can be described by the action of an “inverse” operator to the reduction operator (Ok) defined as [OR ≡ (Ok)−1]. The x position of the two IQuO (I1, I2)x is now well determined; in this case the fields are reduced into a limited spatial range Δx in which the two IQuO with their oscillation amplitudes are located. Therefore, to a discordant phase shift action, we associate the position operator Ox, that is (|xi〉 〈xi|).
The Heisenberg uncertainty relations
In the case of discordant phase shifts, we can thus associate two operators with the OR reduction process: the operator Ox (that is (|xi〉 〈xi|)), simultaneously with the operator (Ok)−1. We will then say that the two operators are associated OR = [(Ok)−1⋅ Ox]. We associate an “uncertainty” of k with operator (Ok)−1, that is Δk. By symmetry, just as there is a relation between Ox and (Ok)−1, then there will also be a relation OR = [Ok ⋅ (Ox)−1], with an uncertainty Δx. Since in a position and pulse measurement we have a reduction process, the measurement errors (Δx, Δk) could be indeterminacy values of the measured physical quantity, that is: [(Δx =Δx), (Δk = Δk)]. Then, we can consider the products
,
; we suspect that it is:
(8)
where [((Ok)−1, (Ox)−1)⌠ Ψ] indicates a non-local state, as in a wave packet. Recall that in a wave packet there is [(Δν⋅Δt ≥ 1) ⌠(Δx/Δλ ≥ 1)] relations apply, which we will write as: {[(Δν⋅Δt ≥ 1) ⌠(Δx/Δλ ≥ 1)]⌠ Δx⋅Δk ≥ 2π}
Let us recall De Broglie’s relation p = hk; it is easily shown that if we go to indeterminacy (Δ) it would be Δp = ηΔk. Therefore, we have:
(9)
These are the well-known Heisenberg uncertainty relations [9].
In whatever type of reduction, at the end of this process there is an “adaptation phase” with a Δtad, in which there is an instantaneous reciprocal induction of phase change (phase-shifting action) between two IQuO (I1, I2); let us conjecture that it is:
(10)
and the phase shift will be expressed by the operator Oϕ (phase shift action operator), with [Oϕ = [exp(-iϕ)]. To the phase shifts given by exchanges of semi-quanta sq(•,o), not integers, occurring between the two IQuO (I1, I2), we will associate the operator Oε (operator of semi-quanta exchange) that it exchange the sq(•,o) between two oscillators (I1, I2): [sq1(•) ⌠ sq2(o), sq2(•) ⌠ sq1(o)]. Therefore, we will associate a reduction operator OR given by [OR = Oϕ Oε]. Note that the exchange of a pair sq(•,•) can be given by the combination of two pair-exchange operators Oε (sq(•,o)), that is: Oε (sq(•,•)) = Oε (sq(•,o)) ⋅ Oε (sq(•,o)). In this case, the operator Oε determines the exchange of a quantum (•,•) and is thus present in the dynamic phase of the interaction. Having finished the initial phase of reduction, the coupling of the two terminals becomes “dynamic” and the interaction phase begins with exchange of integer quanta (sq(•,•) pairs) of energy between the two terminals of the respective chains, now these in a given mode of oscillation. This reminds us of the interaction of particles [10] with given initial momentum (pi1, pj2). At this stage the system will be described by the Hamiltonian of the complete global system, from whose symmetries the conservations of total energy, momentum and total angular momentum will arise. In addition, the phase shifts produced in both the “nondynamic” and “dynamic” phases do not alter the signs of the electric charge, since the latter is given by invariance by gauge transformations involving just the phase [11] [12]. In the IQuO model [13] this corresponds to an invariance of the direction of rotation of the phase in the case of phase shifts produced in the reducing phase.
2.2. The Coupling between Two IQuO
We denote by (1 2) the coupling of two fields where the sign is the reciprocal action operation with components ≡ (OR, ). OR describes the nondynamic initial reduction phase while the sign indicates, after the reduction process, the dynamic coupling by exchanges of sq(•,•) pairs between two IQuO (I1, I2) of two fields (1, 2). As we well know, in inelastic processes other particles can be created than the initial ones, see the creation of pairs, where the final fields (Ψ1, Ψ2) are different from the initial ones (1, 2). To deal with such a process, let us consider for simplicity’s sake that we have already two reduced fields in a local k-moment state, that is (1k, 2k), consequence of the previous reduction process with an operator OR = Ok, see the Equation (7). Suppose that by chance two IQuO (I1, I2) of the two respective fields (1k, 2k) couple together in the same x point (let us not forget that a quantum oscillator has a well-defined spatial dimension (oscillation amplitude), that is Δx). Initially, a transition phase there is (into a time Δttr) with a mutual adjustment between respective oscillation states of the IQuO (I1, I2) of two respective fields. During this time interval Δttr the reciprocal phase shifts (see Equation (10), that is |1| = |−2| = ) in discordance reduce the two fields to two (I1, I2) oscillators. This reduction process is operated by the operator OR = Ox to which a phase shift operator (Oϕ)x is corresponding
(11)
The operator (Oϕ)x, associated with the phase shifts (1 = −2), acts on the fields (1k, 2k); since the matrix Oϕ is a (2 × 2) matrix, the fields must be expressed by column matrices (2 × 1). The “unique” system will be represented by a state with two matrices:
Note that the operator (Oϕ)x acts both on the 1k by phase shifts (1 = −2) than on the 2k. We then will admit an operation:
(12)
with O operating to right than left. Remember that ≡ (OR, ) where is the dynamic operation and here OR ≡ Oϕ. Besides, we will associate the operator Oε to the phase shifts (1 = −2) given by exchanges of semi-quants sq(•,o), not integers, occurring between the two IQuO (I1, I2). Therefore, in the coupling between the two fields (1k, 2k), the operator OR will correspond the operators OR ≡ (Oε, (Oϕ)x). Then, we will have:
(13)
The action of the second exchange operator Oε(sq2(•,o)) can induce a process of reduction but if we have a sequence of actions of Oε(sqi(•,o)), they will follow a sequence of phase shifts as long as at the end of the global process we have that [Δ1 = −Δ2] to which corresponds [Δk1 = −Δk2] with the final eigenstates (
,
). There is this possibility when a coupling of type of Figure 1(b) happens.
2.3. The Coupling between Two Fields-Particles with Pair Creation
Now we consider a coupling between two fields-particles as in Figure 1(a), where the I1-IQuO overlaps on the I2-IQuO. Firstly, we need to precise that if we understand the particle always as a field, where all quantum oscillators of field are coupled, then any interaction between fields-particles must not alter the direction of phase rotation r of each field. This mean that when a field originates, all coupled field oscillators are in the same eigenstate |r’〉, and the interactions are of “gauge” type [14], that is the interactions produce phase shifts but without altering the direction of phase rotation (r’). The eigenstates’ scheme of the r operator, relative to the physical system of the two coupled IQuO, is:
(14)
Let us first examine the two possible combinations of the “zero eigenvalue” of (r):
(|Φ1(r’ = ±1)〉) ⊕ (|Φ2(r’ = μ1)〉).
In Figure 1(a), the coupling between two fields can occur at a given point (x) of the space between the two corresponding oscillators (I1, I2); the initial reduction phase begins with the action of the operator Ox. This operator, in addition to locally reducing a field, see the projector (|xi〉 〈xi|), makes k “indeterminate”, as if an inverse operator of Ok had been applied, that is
. However, the local coupling of the two oscillators, after a preliminary adaptation phase, can determine a state in which the two IQuO constitute a single IQuO (see Figure 1(a)), like a single field to which a single moment k0 is associated. The pair creation process passes through this physical state of “uniqueness”. This means that the coupling (I1, I2) can be described by initially considering a system of two fields (1, 2) with a same single moment k0. Recall in a pair creation the two exiting particles have the same energy and impulse |k| and the same mass (m0 = ηω0k/c2). So, to deal with such a process, we could consider for simplicity’s sake two reduced fields already in a local k-moment state, that is ≡ (1k, 2k) on which an operator Ox acts. We’ll have (for simplicity one sets = in Equation (1)) from the Equation (1) that:
(15)
By of Equation (12), applying the Equation (13), we will then have:
(16)
In the first part of this study on the IQuO the calculation of the sum (1 2) leads to two new fields (Ψ(), Ψ()) which are respectively expressed by IQuO with annihilation and creation operators (a, a+) having the same direction r of the phase rotation but with r’(Ψ) opposite to r’(Ψβ):
(17)
The Hamiltonian operator H of the physical system is established, as usual, by the field operator and its conjugate (setting = +), thus obtaining [11]:
(18)
As in the first reduction process, a second
(•, o) pair, initiates a reduction process by switching from the IQuO pair (I1, I2)x to the field pair (Ψ(), Ψ()) with eigenstates (
,
). If we have |ϕ1| = |ϕ2| = ϕ, it follows that the induced eigenstates by the reciprocal displacement action between the two IQuO are the same for both chains k1 = k2 = ks. Recall in a pair creation the two particles have the same energy and impulse ks (!) and the same mass (m0 = ηω0k/c2). In conclusion, we have assumed a coupling with an initial global reduction process (OR) given by a sequence of operators:
(19)
where we have considered [(
), (
)] with I Identity Operator. Recall associating to operators (Ox, Ok) the operators (Oε)i. The action of the operation ⊕ given by Equation (12) determines that the fields (Ψ(), Ψ()) are invariants for not local gauge transformations on the wave function: in fact, an identical phase shift on all the oscillators in the chain does not change the |k〉 mode, see the Equation (15). For complex fields, see Equation (17), the literature assigns an electric charge to this type of particle-field. The combination (1 2) determines two IQuO with representation:
(20)
where the cl-index indicates clockwise direction, and the cl-index indicates anti-clockwise direction. The graphic representation is, see Figure 2:
Figure 2. Two IQuO with equal operators in the phase rotation but with opposite rotations.
We note that the two new IQuO have sq operators all with the same direction of phase rotation (“mono-verse” IQuO). One of the two fields (Figure 2(a)) is not as regular in shape as the other, so it requires the intervention of a field Φϕ that with a phase shift makes it regular in shape. As we mentioned in the first part of the study, this indicates to us that around a mono-verse IQuO in the direction of phase rotation there are fields acting with corrective phase shifts called “gauge” fields. As it is well known, the Φϕ field is a gauge field and the transformation induced by it is called “gauge transformation” [11] [14]. We also know the fields Φϕ act on electrically charged particles-fields. Therefore, we can consider the hypothesis of associating the monoverse fields (Ψcl, Ψcl) with a sign (± q) of electric charge q connected to two directions of phase rotations: (Ψcl, Ψcl) ⌠(+q, -q). The existence of the Φϕ corrector field indicates that a “mono-verse” IQuO cannot exist in a way “isolated”, see the QED. This, as we know from the literature, is analogous to the description in QED where every electric charge is “dressed” by virtual photon fields [11] [15]. This, as we know from the literature, occurs locally because the field in question operates local gauge transformations to make the interacting fields locally symmetrical. The correcting field will be the photon. The coupling mechanism (1 2) of two B-IQuO [1] [2] [3] can have a particular situation in which the exchange of the sq to form two F-IQuO is direct and with a matrix of phase shift given by (|ϕ1| = |ϕ2| = 0). This happens with a particular configuration given by, see Figure 3:
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Figure 3. Two IQuO 2-dim. with phase rotation opposites (ϕ = ωt = 3π/4), and different eigenvalues r’(±1).
With matrices:
(21)
With indices (cl, cl). By Equation (11), in an “ideal” way (|ϕ1| = |ϕ2| = 0), we obtain:
(22)
That is:
(23)
Graphically it is, see Figure 4:
Figure 4. Two IQuO in regular shape with opposite rotations of the phase.
We proved that a Ψ field with a mono-verse IQuO has an electric charge Q with eigenvalue (q = +1, q = −1). Then, we calculated the electric charge of the (Ψcl) field in the semi-quanta representation with matrices:
(24)
(25)
Using the well-known definition of the electric charge [2] and the commutation relations with semi-quanta (see appendix in ref. [5]) it then follows that:
(26)
where σ3 is a Pauli’s matrix. Calculating:
(27)
We can state that an IQuO with a clockwise direction of phase rotation has a negative value of the physical quantity Q of the Ψcl field. One also demonstrates that with the following matrix:
(28)
We find:
(29)
In conclusion, we can state that the sign of the electric charge is determined by the direction of rotation of the phase and the structure of the matrix representing the IQuO-particle. In conclusion, we can assert that: the (Φ1 ⊕ Φ2) coupling of two IQuO has generated two particles-IQuO with opposite electric charge (q): (Ψcl)+1, (Ψcl)−1. We have thus demonstrated that the (±) sign of the electric charge is related to the direction of the phase rotation of an oscillation IQuO. We denote the IQuO of type Φ(cl, cl) as Boson-IQuO, having both directions of phase rotation, and the IQuO of type [(Ψcl)+1, (Ψcl)−1] as Fermion-IQuO. Note that an IQuO-chain is correspondent to a Field line.
2.4. The Two Types of Representative IQuO: F-IQuO and B-IQuO
Note that in Figure 3, the two pairs of sq
in the two images Figure 3(a) and Figure 3(b) the two pairs of sq operators
, act in “agreement”, in the same direction of propagation along the X axis (see the projection along X-axis): the operator
creates a full sq (•) of elastic energy at the point x in the +X direction also (oel)+X annihilating an empty sq (o) of elastic energy in the point x in the +X direction, actually creates an sq full (•) of elastic energy, in the same +X direction, i.e.
. This is a characteristic of IQuO of boson type (B-IQuO).
Instead in Figure 4, the sq-operators are “discordant”, act in opposite directions along the X axis of propagation, and are not coherent, that is
. This makes “antagonists” the sq-operators of Figure 4. We noticed immediately that the antagonism between operators (one creates energy in the +X direction while the other in the -X direction) makes “contradictory” the representation of a F-IQuO. It follows that the mono verso IQuO certainly represent “charged” IQuO (q = ±1) but, by themselves, they cannot represent particles. Since there are no massless charged particles, we could assume that monoverse IQuO are IQuO representative of massive coupling [2] [3] [16], that is of massive particles. A first possibility to have F-IQuO with massive couplings, no-discordant sq operators and mono-verse could be a phase shift between the plane of oscillation of the pair (
,
) and that of the pair (ael, ain). So, we proposed a form of F-IQuO in which the pair of the operators (
,
) of each F-IQuO oscillates on a plan phase-shifted respect to that of the pair (ael, ain), see Figure 5:
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Figure 5. F-IQuO with “phase-shifted planes” between the a-operators and a+.
Where s is the spin vector associated to succession of planes which, as one can well see in Figure 5, can exploit in two directions of rotation. The phase shift of the planes of oscillation implies, as we have already seen in ref. [16], the existence of a semi-integer spin, given that the wave function results with a period of 4π, see just the Figure 5, as in Fermions. Instead, the IQuO that do not have phase-shifted oscillation planes between a-operator and a+, then we will indicate them as B-IQuO and, by exclusion, they will describe particles of the Boson type.
2.5. The Processes of Pair Creation and Annihilation
The processes of pair creation and annihilation are found, in fundamental terms, in the operations: (Φ1 ⊕ Φ2) → [(Ψcl)+e + (Ψcl)-e], [(Ψcl)+e ⊕ (Ψcl)-e] → (Φ1 + Φ2)
Using the representations in Figure 3, we can represent the creation and annihilation processes more simply with the following figures, Figure 6(a), Figure 6(b):
Note, in the pair creation of Figure 6(a), that the two B-IQuO simultaneously perform the following sq exchanges:
Vice versa in the pair annihilation process (Figure 6(b)) we will have:
Figure 6. The couplings of two B-IQuO origins two mono-verse F-IQuO (a) and vice versa (b).
In the coupling of two B-IQuO generating a pair of F-IQuO, only one exchange of a full sq (•) could occur for each pair of operators (a, a+), that is, see Figure 7:
We will have that:
Or we will have:
Figure 7. The couplings of two B-IQuO origins mono-verse F-IQuO with pairs of sq full for the operators (a, a+).
Note the equivalences
3. The Phenomena of Repulsion and Attraction of Two Electric Charges
3.1. The Reciprocal Phase Shifts between B-IQuO Chain
and F-IQuO Chain
We now show that the property of repulsion and attraction between two electric charges originates in the IQuO representation of a field. In this way we have further proof that the representation of the field with IQuO has a deep physical meaning. Remember that a field can be represented by “lines” of coupled field oscillators. We denote by the C term a “chain” a field line, where the sq(•) propagate from one IQuO to the contiguous other F-type IQuO are basic oscillators of “Fermion” particles [16] while B-type IQuO are basic oscillators for Boson particles. We can treat the phase shift induced by a chain CB of B-IQuO (ΦB field) on a chain CF of F-IQuO (ΨF field). Here, we are trying to describe what happens to field oscillators in a scattering process between an electron (ΨF fermion field) and a photon (ΦB boson field); we note that the theory of interactions describes scattering processes by dealing with “wave-particles” without ever considering what happens at the level of field oscillators (this is a “positivist” point of view of the QM) [6]. The consequence of the reciprocal mutual phase shift (-Δϕ1 = +Δϕ2) between CB and CF can be the variation of direction of the X-axis along which the C’F chain lies, see Figure 8:
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Figure 8. Rotation Δϕ(X,Y) of axis X after phase shift −Δϕ1.
This is caused by the coupling of I F1 with IB2, which gives origin to a phase shift of the sq in IF1 and thus a change of the initial configuration leading to a different final configuration; the latter can have the same shape as the initial configuration when viewed, however, from an axis system (X’, Z’) rotated by an angle (|Δϕ(X,X’)| = -Δϕ1) with respect to the system (X,Z). We speak of “configuration rotation”, Figure 9:
Figure 9. Rotation of the oscillation plane of IF1 after phase shift.
Note that the oscillation plane of IF1 is now rotated and with it the sq propagation axis coinciding with a new CF’ chain, see Figure 8. The phase shift (−Δϕ1) induced by CB on IF1 breaks the original chain CF1 (X-axis) and rotates the oscillation plane of IF1 from (X, Z) to (X’, Z’): the new oscillation of IQuO I’F1 originates a new chain C’F1, where the sq (•) pair of I’ F1 can flow and to become a quantum (•, •) of the “line” new C’Fi of the field ΨF. Consistent with QM, we might describe this process in the following way: in the case of a IQuO-field (ΨF) an “external” IQuO(n=1) IB can induce a coupling along a line of coupled sub-oscillators I(n = 0) of the “empty” field of ΨF, that is ΨF°, which gives rise to a new field chain C’F1 of ΨF1. It follows that the action of an “external” field displacement on a field line ΨF can give rise to a new field line in another direction X’. What has just been described can be formalised in the following way: (CB ⊕ CF1)X → (C’F1)X’. Remember ≡ (OR, ) where is the dynamic operation and here OR ≡ (Oε ⋅ Oϕ), see also Equation (12).
3.2. Superposition of Two Fermion Chains on a Guide Chain of Boson Type (Pauli’s Principle)
Let us now consider the case of two chains (C1cl, C2cl)F of monoverse F-IQuO (the subscript cl indicates a clockwise direction of phase rotation while cl indicates a counterclockwise direction). We point out that the two chains identify two identical particles. We can consider that the two chains (C1, C2)F lie on two parallel axes (X1 // X2). If we superimpose the axes, and thus the chains, we obtain a “constructive” superposition of the two chains only if they originate a “double” chain-Boson (CB), see Figure 6(b), in which sq (•) can flow passing from an IQuO to the other contiguous. This means that two identical fermions but with opposite electric charge can overlap and form a single but double chain of bosonic fields, see the processes of pair creation and annihilation. On the other hand, as we know well, two identical fermions in all physical variables cannot overlap on the same field line. This aspect, see Figure 6, results from the impossibility of superposing two F-IQuO with the same direction of phase rotation (that is with the same electric charge). Another possible superposition is that of a CF chain with a CB chain. In Figure 8, one sees the phase shift induced by CB on CF that results in the variation (rotation) of the axis of CF. We could then admit a phase shift that does not vary the direction of CF but rather allows the sq of CF to flow along CB. Recall that the oscillation of the wave associated with an electron proceeds in two different planes, see Figure 5 and in ref. [16] it was shown that the electron structure flows along a B-IQuO line (CB chain) which can thus be considered a kind of “guide” see the concept in electromagnetics of waveguide. Then we admit a special or adaptive initial phase shift between IF1 and CB1 based on the equality [−Δϕ(F1) = Δϕ(B1)], which allows a sq to flow along CB. In Figure 10, we show the phase shift undergone by the two IQuO with [Δϕ(F1) = −(π/4), Δϕ(B1) = +(π/4)].
The phase shift will allow In+(•)F1 to move to point A and exchange a sq(•) with in+(o)B1. We denote this phase shift as “concordant” if it allows a bosonic chain to originate. The phase shift information Δϕ(B1) then propagates along the entire CB1 chain. Symmetrically, what happened in IF1 must happen in IF2 with the CB2 chain: -Δϕ(F2) = Δϕ(B2). The coupling of the two chains (CB1, CB2) to generate a single boson chain CB must be concordant in such a way as to allow the propagation of sq(•) boson-type in it, CB, and to finally realise the overlapping chain of CF1 and CF2, that is CB, see Figure 11:
Figure 10. Guideline of the intermediary boson.
Figure 11. Guideline of superposition of two intermediary boson.
Besides, since IF2 is a counterclockwise monoverse IQuO and represents a CF2 chain where a particle is moving along the (-X) axis, it will happen that the two particles, chains (CF1, CF2), will move towards each other along the unique propagator CB, see Figure 11. So, we will have that along X-axis on a guide chain CB can move two particles (CF1, CF2) with opposite directions of phase rotation. On the other hand, in the case of two chains (CF1, CF2) consisting of monoverse IQuO but with the same direction of phase rotation [(C1cl, C2cl)F, (C1cl, C2cl)F] it is found that an overlap of these is not possible because does not origin an unique CB chain. This determines, in the case of identical particles with F-IQuO chains, the “Pauli Exclusion Principle”.
3.3. Quantum Correlation at Distance between Two Fermion Chains by an Intermediary Boson Chain
We now show that the two just-described behaviours of the chains (CF1, CF2) determine the behaviour of electrically charged particles, and, exactly, the attraction of particles with opposite electric charges and the repulsion if of electric charges of the same sign. Let us consider two particles of opposite electric charge represented by chains of F-IQuO, that is two particles with opposite directions of phase rotation [(C1cl, C2cl)F. Also, we consider the intermediary chain of boson type CB. The quantum theory of interactions tells us that the system composed of interacting particles and the interacting constitute a “non-separated” quantum system in a non-local state: this is because the reduction process following “observation-interaction” is not included in the Hamiltonian theory of interactions. In this case, only the various probabilities of elastic and inelastic diffusion can be calculated. Therefore, the chains (C1cl, C2cl)F, even if separated in space, result in “quantum correlation” or non-separated state through the “lattice” of intermediate chains (propagators) of B-IQuO (CB). Recall the quantum system constituted by the three chains (CF1, CF2, CB) is as a Feynman diagram with two particle lines and an intermediate propagator of various order. In these terms, the description of an interaction through the system (C1cl, C2cl)F and (CB) is physically equivalent to that of the quantum theory of interactions. As mentioned earlier, the chain CB can induce phase shifts in the two chains (C1F, C2F) which, in the case of non-aligned chains along the same X-axis, in turn give rise to a rotation of the axes of (C1F, C2F), see Figure 8. The physical aspect of phase shifting and rotations implies that the system (CF1, CF2, CB) is correlated in its components, that is the rotations induced by CB in (C1F,C2F) are interdependent: there is an internal “constraint” between the phase shifts in (C1F, C2F), as happens in the distance correlations in QM, see quantum entanglement in the polarization processes of two photons with polarizers placed at a distance (EPR) [17]. This correlation “at space distance” is admissible thanks to IQuO representation, where the phase shifts are superluminal and energetic changes are realized by sq (o,•) pair and no by integer quanta (•,•). In fact, it is then noted that the physics of correlated states in QM is a physics in which the “spatial distance” between components interconnected by another component appears as to be reduced to the distance between the “oscillators” representing those components. So, taking the two chains (C1F, C2F) of an extended system of IQuO in the space of chains (CF1, CF2, CB), where CB is the system that physically connects them, the spatial distance between (CF1, CF2) is given by the spatial distance d(IF1, IF2) of two extreme IQuO (IF1, IF2) of (C1F, C2F) coinciding with the linear dimension d(ICB) of the representative IQuO ICB of the chain CB, that is: d(IF1, IF2) = d(ICB). Thus, the correlation between the extremes of the two chains (CF1, CF2) occurs as if all three systems (CF1, CF2, CB) were “concentrated” in a spatial dimension given by the linear dimension of an IQuO. These assertions are supported by the fact that the phase shifts along the CB chain propagate at a phase velocity that is superluminal, and since there is a reference system in which this velocity is almost infinite (simultaneity of events at the extremes of the chain), then we could say that in such a system the distance between the extremes would be practically zero or almost. Thanks to the IQuO representation it is so possible to explain the phenomenon of correlation at a distance [18], contemplated by the theory of quantum mechanics, without resorting to additional dimensions to the four dimensions of relativity.
3.4. Direction Property of Repulsion and Attraction between Electric Charges
The distance “constraint” just mentioned is a consequence of the space “locality” of the non-separated system (C F1, C F2, CB): a non-separated system of two mono-verse F-IQuO chains (fermions) with the same direction of phase rotation [(C1cl, C2cl)F, (C1cl, C2cl)F] cannot originate for any rotation of the axes of the respective chains, a single system consisting of a single “multiple” boson-like CB chain formed by the two chains of B-IQuO, (CB1, CB2) connecting the two chains (CF1, CF2) and the two overlapping chains (CF1, CF2). If, on the other hand, the chains (C1F, C2F) are with opposite direction of phase rotation, [(C1cl, C2cl)F, (C1cl, C2cl)F], then we will have that the system can originate for any rotations of the axes of the respective chains, a single system consisting of a single “multiple” boson-type chain formed by two superposed B-IQuO chains, (CB1, CB2) and a superposed boson chain of the two chains (CF1, CF2). This means that a rotation of following a phase shift is correlated in any case to that performed by the CF2: (CF1 ⌠ CB) e (CF2 ⌠ CB). The phase shift operator Oϕ in (CF1 ⌠ CB) is conditioned by the phase shift between (CF1 ⌠ CB); we will write [Oϕ (CF1, CB) ⌠ Oϕ (CF2, CB)]. The non-separability (CF1 ∩ CF2), even at a distance, is a consequence of the coupling between the two chains realized through the coupling of two respective IQuO ends (IF1, IF2) with the common bosonic chain CB. This non-separability arises from the following aspect: while the phase shift Δϕ(F1,B1) (Δϕ(F2,B2)) is reductive (Oϕ), the phase shift Δϕ(F2,B2) (Δϕ(F1,B1)) is instead “extensive” (O−1ϕ), that is it restores the non-locality of the chain CB. In these terms, despite the reciprocal phase shifts, the system (CF1, CF2, CB) is non-separated and therefore the two phase shifts at the extremes (IF1, IF2) are always “correlated” at a distance. This determines that “paradoxical” aspect mentioned earlier, which can help to understand quantum entanglement: the two chains (CF1 ∩ CF2) assume a physical state in which they “appear” no longer separated in space that is, as if they were at “zero distance”. What we have said is described by the mathematical formalism of QM in terms of physics in the space of states: quantum entanglement in a physical system is the non-separation in space of the constituents of the system described by state vectors. The same happens in our system of two F-IQuO chains connected at a distance by a common chain of B-IQuO. The system always manifests a “some” non-locality (“null” spatial distances) and non-separability (connections through intermediate chains).
Returning to our two chains, their rotations are not so independent nor random but are determined by phase shifts that tend to build a “bosonic” chain if (C1cl, C2cl)F or to deny it if (C1cl, C2cl)F, (C1cl, C2cl)F. Since the two IQuO “vertices” (IF1, IF2) are symmetric in the interaction process of the two chains (C1cl, C2cl)F it follows that a reciprocal local phase shift of B-IQuO on one of the two F-IQuO corresponds to one in equal modulus; the sign, however, is determined by the combinations:
[(C1cl, C2cl)F, (C1cl, C2cl)F], [(C1cl, C2cl)F, (C1cl, C2cl)F]
It follows, then, Figure 12.
The angular phase shift is random in modulus but equal in the two extreme oscillators (IF1, IF2) with the signs conditioned by the directions of the respective phase rotations. In the case of opposite phase rotations, the bosonic chain condition determines the following phase shift distributions:
Looking at Figure 12, we notice that the new propagation directions of two F-IQuO chains (blue color), after coupling with a B-IQuO, are converging; this tells us that the two particles (with opposite charge and opposite directions of phase rotation) are attracting each other. In the case of phase rotations equal in direction, the “fermionic” chain condition determines the following phase shift distributions:
Now note in Figure 13 the divergence of the propagation axes to avoid an overlap denied by the Pauli principle for F-type IQuO:
Figure 12. The couplings of two chains of F-IQuO by an intermediary Boson chain.
Figure 13. Divergence of the outgoing chains of two IQuO with the same direction of phase rotation.
In general, if we have two F-IQuO chains with equal direction of phase rotation, the new propagation directions of two F-IQuO chains (blue color), after coupling with a B-IQuO, are now divergent. This tells us that the two particles (with equal charge and equal directions of phase rotation) are repelling each other.
4. Conclusions
The idea of treating a field oscillator as a forced oscillator when traversed by the field quantum is a harbinger of important innovations in quantum mechanics (QM) and particle physics. In QM, this idea makes pass from the “ordinary” quantum oscillator to the “intrinsic” oscillator called IQuO, whose structure in sub-oscillators with semi-quanta allows:
1) to be able to “observe” the direction of rotation of the phase in an IQuO.
2) to describe the elastic coupling in a point between two oscillators of two different particle-fields.
The first point highlights the possibility of identifying a relationship between the sign of the electric charge (±) of a particle-field with the two directions of rotation of the phase of its basic oscillators. This is an important step because it gives us the possibility of explaining the origin of the two signs of electric charge and the property of electric bodies to attract or repel each other. This article thus demonstrates the meaning of that empirical convention of electromagnetic phenomena which is expressed in the attraction and repulsion of electric charges. In the second point, the coupling between IQuO of two different fields, aspects of considerable importance emerge:
• the possibility, through the introduction of mutual phase shift operators, to describe the process of reduction of the representative wave function of the particle, postulated by quantum physics [6] [9].
• the possibility of carrying out the coupling process in detail and determining the type of emerging particles, a fundamental aspect of interactions [14] [15].
In this way, it is possible to explain the fundamental mechanism behind the process of pair creation and thus the formation of antimatter. This is possible because two forms of IQuO (F-IQuO, B-IQuO) are identified, which allow a deeper understanding of the difference between fermionic and boson fields. Furthermore, by coupling an F-IQuO (basic IQuO constitutive of an electron) with a given phase rotation and a B-IQuO (IQuO constitutive of a photon) it is possible to explain the phenomenon of attraction and repulsion of two electric charges. In fact, starting from the coupling of an F-IQuO with a B-IQuO it is possible to show the F-IQuO behaves differently depending on its phase rotation direction. It is thus evident from these considerations that with the IQuO model of a particle-field, a new descriptive paradigm of the phenomenology of particles treated by the Standard Model is introduced into physics: this new paradigm is that particles are structures of IQuO couplings. From the arguments presented in the article, such as that of the relation between phase rotation, phase rotation direction invariance and gauge fields, the model IQuO is totally consistent with the descriptive principles of the SM, indeed, thanks to the structure of the IQuO, we also have the possibility to complete the SM, because:
in addition to explaining the origin of the sign (±) of an electric charge, we are also able to explain the origin of the colour charge possessed by quarks, see ref. [4] [19]
Thanks to the “sub-structure” of an IQuO, it is possible to couple field IQuO, which are representative of a particle, in such a way as to form a well-defined structure with geometric shape. This latter aspect gives rise to a new descriptive paradigm for the phenomenology of interacting particles: that of treating massive particles no longer in a point-like manner but as geometric structures with a spatial dimension (λ)
The new paradigm defines a new representative model of SM particles, which has been referred to as the Geometric Particle Model [19] [20] with acronym (PGM). In this way, SM particles and the phenomenology they express can be classified according to their structure.
In conclusion it can be said that thanks to the IQuO idea, it is possible to build a particle model completely in agreement with the standard model, explaining its phenomenology in an exhaustive, predictive, and self-consistent way. In this way, a deeper understanding of the universe of particles and the laws that govern them is achieved because it is possible to “structure” the phenomenology generated by them and, up to this moment, known.