Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle as an Emergent Topological Stress in Quantum Graph Emergent Field Theory (QGEFT)
The current Paper 76 benchmark does not claim that continuum quantum mechanics or the exact $\hbar/2$ bound has been derived from first principles. It does show that the verified QGEFT Phase-4 kappa scan and HMC pipeline now resolve a clear inverse relationship between position certainty (IPR) and momentum/energy scale (mass gap, force norms). At $\kappa=0.5$, the fermion is tightly confined ($IPR\approx0.998$) with a large mass gap ($\approx0.140$); at $\kappa=2.0$, it delocalizes ($IPR\approx0.020$) with a collapsed mass gap ($\approx0.017$). The HMC trajectory confirms that maintaining any fermionic state demands enormous topological forces ($\|F_{edge}\| \sim 10^6$), and the correlation structure supports the Heisenberg trade-off: $\mathrm{Corr}(IPR, gap) = -0.73$. The defensible conclusion is that uncertainty emerges in QGEFT as a topological pressure-release phenomenon---the graph's mechanical response to avoid structural fracture when forced into geometrically singular configurations.
Authors
- Yaniv Cohen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2809-0910)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-07-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21480905
- Primary Topic
- Quantum many-body systems
- Type
- preprint