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Hypersurface Bohm-Dirac models

Quantum Physics 2009-10-31 v2

Abstract

We define a class of Lorentz invariant Bohmian quantum models for N entangled but noninteracting Dirac particles. Lorentz invariance is achieved for these models through the incorporation of an additional dynamical space-time structure provided by a foliation of space-time. These models can be regarded as the extension of Bohm's model for N Dirac particles, corresponding to the foliation into the equal-time hyperplanes for a distinguished Lorentz frame, to more general foliations. As with Bohm's model, there exists for these models an equivariant measure on the leaves of the foliation. This makes possible a simple statistical analysis of position correlations analogous to the equilibrium analysis for (the nonrelativistic) Bohmian mechanics.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9801070,
  title  = {Hypersurface Bohm-Dirac models},
  author = {D. Duerr and S. Goldstein and K. Muench-Berndl and N. Zanghi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9801070},
  year   = {2009}
}

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17 pages, 3 figures, RevTex. Completely revised version