Dissipative Quantum Geometry: Electromagnetism and Gauge Fields Emergence from the Imaginary Part of the Quantum Geometric Tensor

Electromagnetism is not a fundamental interaction. Instead, classical $U(1)$ gauge fields emerge from the antisymmetric imaginary component of the Quantum Geometric Tensor (QGT) defined over an open, non-Hermitian state space. While the real symmetric sector Re(Qμν) = gμν generates Lorentzian spacetime gravity, its imaginary counterpart Im(Qμν) = -1/2 Fμν governs the electromagnetic field strength tensor Fμν through the biorthogonal Berry curvature Ωμν. Symbolic tensor algebra proves that the homogeneous Maxwell equations ($dF = 0$) hold identically as a topological tautology. We evaluate the state-space metric density at the exact second-order Exceptional Point (EP₂) phase boundary. Calibration against 1/αEM ≈ 137.036 locks the universal dissipation parameter to γ ≈ 0.0019634. Gravitation and electromagnetism represent the real and imaginary projections of a unified complex quantum geometry Qμν = gμν - i/2 Fμν.