This paper presents a falsifiable quantum-optical hypothesis for testing whether the oriented structure of a bounded three-link interaction network can contribute an additional measurable relative phase beyond the predictions of conventional quantum electrodynamics and quantum optics.
The proposal begins from a narrow experimental question: after ordinary optical path phase, material response, detector effects, nonlinear optics, geometric phase, synthetic gauge structure, chirality, nonreciprocity, and other justified conventional mechanisms have been modeled and controlled, can a residual phase remain that follows a predetermined transformation law associated with the physical interaction network?
Each auxiliary network link is operationally defined by an independently measured reciprocal coherent coupling rate Jij. The model introduces an orientation-sensitive three-link shape variable,
χ(J)=Jˉ3(J12−J23)(J23−J31)(J31−J12),
and a dimensionless interaction exposure Ξ(J) that incorporates both network shape, absolute coupling strength, and interaction time. The proposed optical correction is represented by the effective unitary scattering map
UI(J)=exp[iκIPΞ(J)2n^1−n^3],
where κIP is an unknown dimensionless coupling coefficient.
A balanced three-path interferometer converts the resulting phase into a directly measurable detector-count contrast. The experiment is designed around multiple independent tests rather than a single anomalous measurement, including:
- network-off, symmetric, and asymmetric-zero null configurations;
- sign reversal under physical mirror transformation;
- scaling across multiple network configurations;
- variation of absolute auxiliary-coupling strength;
- coherent-state and single-photon consistency tests;
- independently measured conventional-systematic controls;
- a held-out mirror-pair prediction using one frozen coupling parameter;
- a pre-unblinding feasibility threshold; and
- explicit conventional-reducibility and replication requirements.
The model is rejected at the tested sensitivity if a justified conventional mechanism explains the residual, required nulls or transformation laws fail, the predicted scaling is not observed, or held-out configurations cannot be predicted using the preregistered parameter.
Null results are interpreted as quantitative bounds on the proposed coupling rather than proof that an arbitrarily small interaction is impossible.
The hypothesis is motivated by the Unified Informational Physics Ontology (UIPO), but the experimental law developed here is a new phenomenological realization and is independently falsifiable. The paper does not claim that a nonzero effect has been observed, that standard quantum electrodynamics has been falsified, or that UIPO has been experimentally confirmed.
The purpose of the work is to convert a proposed informational-physics relationship into a sufficiently explicit quantum-optical experiment that can be independently modeled, criticized, implemented, falsified, and replicated.