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Entropic Dynamics Approach to Quantum Electrodynamics
1Physics Department, University at Albany-SUNY, Albany, NY 12222, USA.
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Entropic Dynamics (ED) is a framework that allows one to derive quantum theory as a Hamilton-Killing flow on the cotangent bundle of a statistical manifold. These flows are such that they preserve the symplectic and the metric geometries; they explain the linearity of quantum mechanics and the appearance of complex numbers. In this paper the ED framework is extended to deal with local gauge symmetries. More specifically, on the basis of maximum entropy methods and information geometry, for an appropriate choice of ontic variables and constraints, we derive the quantum dynamics of radiation fields interacting with charged particles.
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