QDL Publications (Framework-first ordering)
This page is organized to reflect the recommended reading order: canonical framework definition → structural reconstruction → prediction filter → technical rigor → real-world application. Domain applications follow after the framework core.
This book is a reader-facing synthesis of the QDL program. It is intended to improve accessibility and narrative continuity. The canonical definitions, benchmarks, and falsifiability conditions remain documented in the DOI-backed Zenodo and journal records listed below.
If you want the shortest, least ambiguous entry: start with Top 5, then skim Executed benchmarks, then branch into applications.
Top 5 (Framework-first Core Path)
Recommended “front door” into QDL: definitions → reconstruction → method → rigor → application.
Dimensional Closure as a National-Scale Model Validation Layer: From Dimensional Analysis to Prediction Filtering, Measurement Auditability, and Interoperable Trust
Canonical definition of QDL as an admissibility and validation framework independent of any single application. If you only read one “definition” paper first, it’s this one.
The Quantized Dimensional Ledger: A Structural Reconstruction of Dimensional Analysis and Its Role in Modern Physics
Reframes dimensional analysis from bookkeeping into a structural rule set; motivates the ledger viewpoint and establishes the bridge from “units” to “admissibility constraints.”
The Quantized Dimensional Ledger as a Prediction Filter for Field Content, EFT Structure, Constants, Gravity, and Precision Measurement
Core method paper: applies closure to filter admissible field content and operator structure while linking constant combinations, gravity sectors, and precision measurement under the same ledger constraint.
Ledger-Constrained Renormalization: Operator Pruning and Discrete RG Structure from Dimensional Closure
Technical anchor: demonstrates how closure constraints act directly on RG structure and operator admissibility, sharpening the “filter” idea into an explicit pruning rule set.
Dimensional-Closure Auditing for Engineering Models and Measurement Pipelines: A Ledger-Based Pre-Verification Method with Fusion Energy Case Studies
Demonstrates how QDL-style closure becomes a practical pre-verification layer in real modeling pipelines, emphasizing auditability and measurement-aware validation.
The rest of this page groups additional work by topic. These are valuable, but the Top 5 above is the cleanest framework-first entrance and should match the ordering used on the Home page.
Executed Benchmarks & Null Tests (Records)
Auditable benchmark records designed for replication using public data. Focus: residual structure and model adequacy (not effect claims).
Benchmarks & Null Tests (Framework / Torsion Anchor)
Establishes the residual-first benchmarking protocol and provides executed null-test anchors for precision datasets where a declared reduced family is expected to pass if no additional structure is present.
NV-Center ODMR Benchmark (Residual-first)
Residual-first benchmarking comparing a baseline spin-Hamiltonian family with a strictly reduced comparison family using public ODMR data, emphasizing transparency and structural adequacy rather than fit magnitude alone.
Optical Cavity Trace Benchmark (Residual-first)
Residual-first diagnostics distinguish stabilized traces (noise-like residuals under the reduced family) from uncontrolled resonance scans (coherent residual structure persists under both reduced and low-order baseline families).
These records are intentionally conservative and portable: they provide a clean external “audit handle” on the analysis discipline (provenance, declared preprocessing, declared model families, and residual plots). For the narrative overview, see Experiments → Benchmarks.
Core Framework & Geometry (Beyond Top 5)
Additional framework papers on QDC geometry, minimum-length structure, and the ledger’s geometric interpretation.
Quantum Gravity from Dimensional Coherence: Minimum-Length Geometry from the Quantized Dimensional Ledger
Develops a gravitational sector in which dimensional coherence under QDL motivates a minimum-length geometry and coherence conditions tied back to QDC structure. Best read after the Top 5.
The Quantized Dimensional Cell as an SO(3,2) Space–Time Structure
Treats the QDC as a geometric object (not merely unit choice), motivating the link between ledger exponents and a higher-dimensional space–time–frequency interpretation.
Unified Standard Model + Gravity
Papers applying the closure framework to field content across the Standard Model and gravity sectors.
Quantized Dimensional Ledger as a Unified Dimensional Closure Framework for the Standard Model and Gravity
Unifies Standard Model fields and a scalar–tensor gravity sector under a common closure rule, embedding fields, couplings, and constants in a shared ledger that closes onto a QDC.
A Unified Ledger-Based Framework for Physical Theories: From Dimensional Cells to Scalar–Tensor Field Structure
Earlier scalar–tensor development from QDC and closure. Useful for historical continuity and derivations, while the framework-first Top 5 remains the recommended entry path.
EFT, SMEFT & Magnetic-Moment Structure
Applications of ledger closure to operator lattices, SMEFT operator sets, and magnetic-moment structure.
Dimensional Closure and Ledger Lattices in Effective Field Theories
Develops EFT operator space as a ledger lattice constrained by closure, organizing admissible operators, exclusions, and dimensional relations among couplings and constants.
Ledger-Closure Constraints on the SMEFT: A Lattice-Theoretic Derivation of Operator Exclusions and Wilson-Coefficient Relations
Applies closure rules to SMEFT, deriving structured operator exclusions and relations among Wilson coefficients, with the prediction-filter framework as the guiding principle.
The Ledger Geometry of Magnetic Moments: A Quantized Dimensional Ledger Derivation of the Electron and Muon g–2 Factors
Reinterprets electron and muon anomalous magnetic moments in terms of ledger geometry and dimensional flow, connecting corrections to QDL structure.
Metrology & Constants
Papers tying metrology practice, measurement chains, and physical constants to the QDL ledger and closure principle.
The Quantized Dimensional Ledger for Metrology: Dimensional Closure, QMU Ledgers, and the Ontology of Physical Constants
Introduces the Quantized Measurement Unit (QMU) ledger as a dimensional audit tool, classifying physical constants and linking metrology practice directly to closure and the conserved QDC.
A Dimensional Closure Framework for the Ontology of Physical Constants
Examines which constants reflect structural geometry versus unit choice, and how closure organizes constant combinations into quantized dimensional classes.
Structural Constraints on Fundamental Constants from a Five-Dimensional Ledger Basis
Derives constraints on fundamental constants using a five-dimensional ledger basis, serving as a more technical complement to the metrology and ontology papers.
Cosmology (Applications)
Cosmology is treated as a downstream application domain once the framework core is established.
Cosmological Expansion from Dimensional Closure: Phase Inertia and Curvature Tension without Independent Dark Sectors
Applies dimensional-closure constraints to cosmological dynamics (phase inertia / curvature tension) as a downstream application of the framework-first program.
Ledger-Constrained Cosmology: Dark-Sector Dynamics from Coherent Ledger Fields and QDC Closure
Cosmology application built around coherent ledger fields and QDC closure. Recommended after the Top 5 and Coherent Ledger Fields.
Phenomenology & Experiments
Coherent ledger fields, experimental roadmaps, and teaching-oriented laboratory introductions.
Coherent Ledger Fields: From SO(3,2) Dimensional Cells to a Unified Scalar–Tensor–Electromagnetic Phenomenology
Connects QDC/ledger geometry to scalar–tensor–EM phenomenology and proposes signals in torsion balances, NV centers, cavity scaling, metamaterials, and magnetic-moment structure.
QDL Experimental Validation Protocol: A Unified Roadmap for Torsion, NV-Center, Cavity, and Metamaterial Tests
Falsifiable validation program across four independent platforms designed to probe whether physical scaling follows a QDL-governed ledger. For executed benchmark records using public data, see Executed Benchmarks.
Teaching Dimensional Analysis with a Length–Frequency Basis: An Inverse-Length Cavity Scaling Lab
Teaching-focused laboratory framework demonstrating the L–F dimensional basis and resonance scaling as a gentle entry into the ledger idea.
Toroidal Coordinate Representation of the Schrödinger Equation with Cross-Domain Structural Applications
Toroidal-coordinate formulation with structural links to QDL geometry; included as an auxiliary mathematical toolset.
Program Synthesis & Overviews
Big-picture documents that map QDL across domains. Best read after the Top 5.
QDL: Twenty Grand Challenges, One Ledger – A Unified Dimensional-Closure Architecture for Spacetime, Fields, Constants, Cosmology, Nuclear Structure, Precision Physics, and Measurement
Programmatic overview mapping dimensional-closure architecture onto a large set of domains and research questions, serving as a roadmap document.
A complete, up-to-date list of QDL manuscripts is maintained via the Zenodo community: zenodo.org/communities/qdl-physics-institute/ . This Publications page emphasizes the framework-first path and highlights executed benchmark records separately for clarity.