The first peer-reviewed journal anchor for QDL. This paper develops dimensional closure, QMU ledgers, measurement relations, and the structural interpretation of physical constants.
QDL Publications & Open Research Record
This page provides the public bibliographic and research-archive record of the QDL Physics Institute. It includes peer-reviewed work, major research syntheses, Zenodo datasets, theorem and completion archives, computational companions, technical papers, benchmarks, books, and earlier foundational records.
The current QDL/QDC publication hierarchy is centered on three primary anchors: the peer-reviewed metrology foundation, Primitive Closure and the Architecture of Physical Admissibility , and the frozen consolidated record Toward a QDL Unified Field Theory .
The living scientific interpretation of these publications is maintained on the Research Program page. Older papers remain part of the public development record but should be read in light of the current claim-status boundaries.
From Peer-Reviewed Foundation to Unified-Field Completion Record
The QDL publication record now has a clearer hierarchy than earlier versions of this page. The metrology article supplies the peer-reviewed QDL foundation. Primitive Closure and the Architecture of Physical Admissibility provides the major long-form synthesis. Toward a QDL Unified Field Theory provides the frozen theorem, gate, reproducibility, and open-problem snapshot. The living Completion-Gate Series records subsequent progress.
Publication Status Map
Different records carry different levels of scientific status.
| Peer-reviewed work | The Journal of Theoretical and Applied Physics metrology article is the current peer-reviewed journal anchor for QDL. |
| Major synthesis | Primitive Closure and the Architecture of Physical Admissibility is the principal current long-form QDL synthesis. It is an open Zenodo scholarly record, not a peer-reviewed journal article. |
| Consolidated UFT record | Toward a QDL Unified Field Theory is a frozen Version V1.0 dataset / research archive consolidating theorems, computational gates, reproducibility records, and open physical-closure problems. |
| Completion archives | QDL/QDC completion and computational records preserve theorem, audit, falsification, verifier, and machine-readable evidence. |
| Technical Zenodo papers | Earlier QDL papers document the evolution of the program across spectrum selection, electroweak and flavor closure, operator governance, gravity, cosmology, QDC realization, and related branches. |
| Benchmarks | Executed benchmark records are methodological or residual-first studies. They do not automatically constitute evidence for a new physical effect. |
| Living scientific status | The Research Program controls the current interpretation of the archive, especially where later Completion Gates have changed or narrowed earlier claims. |
Current Major Research Anchors
The four records most useful for understanding the present program.
The principal current long-form synthesis of the QDL research program. It brings together primitive closure, structural admissibility, QDL/QDC architecture, recurrence, completion physics, particle capacity, gravity, claim boundaries, and open research gates.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Primitive Closure and the Architecture of Physical Admissibility (Version 1.2.1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21813133
Frozen public status record of the present QDL/QDC unified-field program. It consolidates architecture, constitutive completion, particle and gravity status, computational gates, quantum-measure work, reproducibility records, claim-strength boundaries, and open physical-closure problems.
The archive presents QDL/QDC as a conditional unified-field candidate , not as a completed or experimentally established unified field theory.
Bourassa, J. D. (2026). Toward a QDL Unified Field Theory: Consolidated Theorems, Computational Gates, Reproducibility Records, and Open Physical-Closure Problems (Version V1.0) [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21894736
Public theorem and evidence archive documenting the structural-to-dynamical completion program, including frozen gate logic, reproducibility records, and explicit failure boundaries.
Current Computational & Reproducibility Records
Machine-readable and audit-oriented companions to the research program.
Public computational companion containing finite closure ledgers, recurrence structures, ordered-pair phase domains, QDC balance, baryon charge residues, and related reproducibility controls.
Machine-readable source-anchored audit subset for closure-vector classification of SMEFT operator mixing, including verification taxonomy and reproducible operator records.
Recommended Reading Path
A current five-step route through the QDL publication record.
The Quantized Dimensional Ledger for Metrology
Start with the peer-reviewed QDL foundation: dimensional closure, QMU ledgers, constants, and measurement relations.
Primitive Closure and the Architecture of Physical Admissibility
Use the major synthesis for the broadest integrated account of primitive closure, QDL/QDC architecture, physical admissibility, and completion physics.
Toward a QDL Unified Field Theory
Read the frozen V1.0 theorem, gate, reproducibility, status, and open-problem record.
Structural-to-Dynamical Completion Program
Examine the theorem, audit, reproducibility, and falsification archive supporting the active completion program.
Living Completion-Gate Status
Use the Research Program page for scientific progress after the frozen UFT V1.0 cutoff.
Earlier Major Synthesis
An important predecessor to the current Primitive Closure synthesis.
This monograph was an important intermediate synthesis of the QDL program and introduced the broader persistence-under-closure framing and predictive-compression standard.
It remains part of the research history, but the more recent Primitive Closure and the Architecture of Physical Admissibility is now the preferred comprehensive synthesis for the current program.
Selected Technical QDL Record
Major branch-specific papers supporting the broader program.
From Closure Admissibility to Physical Selection: A Roadmap for the Quantized Dimensional Ledger Program
Earlier program-architecture synthesis connecting closure admissibility, physical selection, claim-status firewalls, failure modes, and validation paths.
Planck-Scale Fluctuation Closure as the Substrate Interpretation of the Quantized Dimensional Ledger: A QDL Capstone on Physical Persistence, Compton–Gravity Thresholds, Mass-Ratio Closure, Vacuum Filtering, and EFT Audits
Earlier substrate-capstone formulation of QDL as a residual-first closure-admissibility theory of physical persistence.
The Toroidal QDC Knot: A Closure-Stable Geometric Substrate Mode for the Quantized Dimensional Ledger
Compact two-cycle toroidal recurrence construction used in an earlier QDL/QDC substrate branch.
The QDC Completion Theorem: Matter-Basis Minimality, Three-Family Automorphism, Charged-Lepton Closure, and Gravitational Recurrence in the Quantized Dimensional Ledger
Earlier theorem-level completion map connecting QDC architecture to Standard-Model admissibility, family structure, charged-lepton closure, gravitational recurrence, and explicit remaining proof gates.
QDL Charged-Lepton Mass Spectrum: A Synthesis of Derived Structure and Phenomenological Radial Closure
Numerical mass-spectrum application separating occupancy-amplitude closure, charged-lepton geometry, relational phase structure, and phenomenological radial closure.
The Quantized Dimensional Cell in Gravitational Dynamics: GM, Keplerian Closure, and Dimensional Admissibility
Develops the dimensional structure of μ = GM, Keplerian closure, and a physically concrete QDC-form gravitational realization.
Earlier Core Closure Sequence
Technical papers documenting the development of the QDL closure program.
The Quantized Dimensional Ledger as a Structural and Numerical Closure Program for Fundamental Physics: A Review and Roadmap for Spectrum, Constants, Operators, Gravity, Cosmology, and Residual Tests
Earlier review and roadmap organizing QDL around structural closure, numerical closure, residual tests, spectrum, constants, operators, gravity, and cosmology.
QDL Numerical Ledger Companion: Reference Ledger, Closure Targets, and Executable Checks for the Quantized Dimensional Ledger Program
Reference ledger and executable-check companion supporting early electroweak, flavor, gravitational, and cosmological closure reconstructions.
QDL Spectrum Selection as a Conditional Standard Model Theorem: Gauge Seed Minimality, Hypercharge Closure, Anomaly Cancellation, and a Single Generation
Conditional Standard-Model spectrum-selection branch based on gauge-seed minimality, hypercharge closure, anomaly cancellation, and one-generation matter completion.
QDL Electroweak Numerical Closure: Scheme-Declared Reconstructions of the Higgs Mass, Effective Weak Mixing Angle, Fine-Structure Constant, and Fermi Scale
Scheme-declared numerical reconstructions within the earlier electroweak branch.
QDL Flavor Closure as a Conditional Rank Theorem: Three Generations, Yukawa Depth, CKM Leakage, and PMNS Neutral-Flavor Closure
Earlier flavor branch covering generation rank, Yukawa depth, CKM leakage, and PMNS neutral-flavor closure.
QDL Operator Governance as a Reproducible SMEFT Matrix Audit: Modular Sector Selection, Anomalous-Dimension Closure, and Violation Taxonomy
Reproducible SMEFT matrix-audit branch connecting QDL closure classification to operator mixing and violation taxonomy.
QDL Closure of Classical Gravity: Einstein–Hilbert Minimality, Bianchi Conservation, Geodesic Motion, Keplerian QDC Recovery, and the Planck–Electroweak Hierarchy
Earlier classical-gravity branch covering Einstein–Hilbert minimality, conservation, geodesic motion, Keplerian recovery, and hierarchy structure.
QDL Cosmological Closure as a Horizon-Screened Curvature Ansatz: Vacuum-Energy Residuals, Cosmic Horizon Ledgers, and Dark-Sector Separation
Earlier conditional cosmological branch emphasizing horizon-screened curvature, vacuum residuals, cosmic horizon ledgers, and dark-sector separation.
Closure Grammar & QDC Realizations
Additional records sharpening closure grammar and physical QDC interpretations.
Lessons from the QDL Closure Sequence: Strong Claims, Open Residuals, Falsification Tests, and the Emergence of a Compact Closure Grammar
Consolidates lessons from the earlier closure sequence, including strong claims, unresolved residuals, falsification tests, and compact closure grammar.
The Neutral Matching Unit in QDL Closure Grammar: A Uniqueness Theorem for 1/18 from Binary–Ternary Sector Coupling, Z6 Operator Grading, and Electroweak Residual Preservation
Develops an earlier closure-grammar branch involving binary–ternary sector matching, Z6 grading, and electroweak residual structure.
Quantized Dimensional Closure: Compton Realization and Operator Sector Selection
Connects dimensional closure to Compton localization-frequency structure and operator-sector selection.
Earlier Foundational Papers
Early DOI-backed records establishing the mathematical QDL framework.
Early algebraic and lattice-theoretic foundation for representing dimensional quantities as integer vectors.
Early formal statement of dimensional closure as a structural-admissibility condition.
Early application of QDL closure ideas to effective field-theory operator structure.
Executed Benchmark Records
Reproducible methodological records; these do not claim new physical effects.
Residual-first model-adequacy testing under declared model families and parameter budgets.
Public-data methodological benchmark structured for replication and residual-first interpretation.
Optical-cavity resonance benchmark designed as a reproducible template for model-adequacy testing.
Books & Reader-Facing Syntheses
Accessible materials alongside the formal research archive.
Reader-facing book-length introduction to the QDL program. It remains useful background. Readers seeking the current comprehensive technical synthesis should use Primitive Closure and the Architecture of Physical Admissibility .
Citation & Interpretation Guidance
Use the record that actually supports the claim being cited.
For peer-reviewed QDL claims
Cite the JTAP metrology article when referring to the peer-reviewed dimensional-closure, QMU-ledger, or physical-constant work.
For the broad QDL architecture
Cite Primitive Closure and the Architecture of Physical Admissibility for the major integrated theoretical synthesis.
For UFT status and open problems
Cite Toward a QDL Unified Field Theory for the frozen V1.0 theorem, computational-gate, reproducibility, and open-problem status.
For reproducibility
Cite the relevant computational companion, completion archive, or dataset rather than citing only a later narrative summary.
For earlier QDL branches
Cite the original DOI-backed record, while checking the current Research Program for later refinements or claim-boundary changes.
For the live scientific position
Use Research Program as the current status layer. Frozen publications should not be silently rewritten to reflect later gates.
The publications listed on this page are selected anchors rather than an attempt to reproduce every individual QDL record inline. The Institute's Zenodo community provides the broader public DOI-backed archive.
Older papers remain available as part of the development history. The current program should be interpreted through the newer Primitive Closure synthesis, consolidated UFT record, Completion-Gate archive, and living Research Program status.
Most QDL/QDC records are open research manuscripts, datasets, computational archives, or monographs deposited for public scrutiny and reproducibility. Their scientific status is determined by the content of the individual record, its proof or computational evidence, its assumptions, its claim-status declarations, and any subsequent independent review or replication.
The Institute currently describes QDL/QDC as a conditional unified-field candidate . The public record contains substantial structural and computational progress, but unique amplitude normalization, complete particle phenomenology, global quantum closure, distinctive experimental confirmation, and unaffiliated replication remain open.