Statistical Origin of an Emergent Vacuum Pseudoscalar Mode

This paper develops a statistical and microscopic interpretation for an emergent pseudoscalar mode previously introduced in a phenomenological framework of modified vacuum electrodynamics. Rather than treating the field as a fundamental axion-like particle, the work models the vacuum as a statistical ensemble of unresolved microscopic configurations whose collective behavior can generate an effective pseudoscalar order parameter coupled to the electromagnetic invariant (E \cdot B). Through coarse graining and effective-field-theory arguments, the framework motivates a temperature-dependent mass scale, finite damping time, resonant susceptibility, and coherence length capable of producing experimentally testable signatures including vacuum birefringence, delayed electromagnetic emission, resonance enhancement, and cavity-scale coherence effects. The theory is intentionally exploratory and is presented as a falsifiable phenomenological model rather than a completed microscopic description of the vacuum.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-04-26
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19801919
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Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect
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Statistical Origin of an Emergent Vacuum Pseudoscalar Mode

Erick Sangalang
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect
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Statistical Origin of an Emergent Vacuum Pseudoscalar Mode

Erick Sangalang
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Abstract

This paper develops a statistical and microscopic interpretation for an emergent pseudoscalar mode previously introduced in a phenomenological framework of modified vacuum electrodynamics. Rather than treating the field as a fundamental axion-like particle, the work models the vacuum as a statistical ensemble of unresolved microscopic configurations whose collective behavior can generate an effective pseudoscalar order parameter coupled to the electromagnetic invariant (E \cdot B). Through coarse graining and effective-field-theory arguments, the framework motivates a temperature-dependent mass scale, finite damping time, resonant susceptibility, and coherence length capable of producing experimentally testable signatures including vacuum birefringence, delayed electromagnetic emission, resonance enhancement, and cavity-scale coherence effects. The theory is intentionally exploratory and is presented as a falsifiable phenomenological model rather than a completed microscopic description of the vacuum.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect
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