# Temporal-Field Interpretation of Quantum Decoherence

Андрей Викторович Лемешко

Description Since the formulation of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, a fundamental question has remained unanswered: Why is quantum phase coherence generically fragile? While decoherence theory successfully describes how coherence is lost through environmental coupling, it does not explain why phase coherence lacks intrinsic protection-a conceptual gap that has persisted for more than a century of quantum theory. This paper proposes a resolution based on treating time as a physical field rather than a passive external parameter. Within this temporal-field framework, decoherence emerges naturally as a breakdown of global phase synchronization caused by spatial and temporal inhomogeneities of the underlying time field. The approach preserves the standard formalism of quantum mechanics entirely, reproducing Lindblad-type master equations as effective descriptions while providing a physical substrate for decoherence rates, non-Markovian memory effects, and ubiquitous 1/f noise-phenomena that have lacked a unified explanation since their discovery. The work is strictly foundational and does not propose technological implementations. Instead, it addresses a longstanding interpretational problem by offering a physically grounded reinterpretation of coherence loss, one that is fully compatible with existing quantum formalism and leads to experimentally discriminable consequences. By reframing decoherence as a structural feature of temporal dynamics rather than irreversible information loss, this framework resolves a century-old conceptual puzzle at the heart of quantum foundations. ... Read more Public File 1

Temporal-Field Interpretation of Quantum Decoherence