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Justifying Born's rule $P_\alpha=|\Psi_\alpha|^2$ using deterministic chaos, decoherence, and the de Broglie-Bohm quantum theory

Quantum Physics 2021-11-03 v1

Abstract

In this work we derive Born's rule from the pilot-wave theory of de Broglie and Bohm. Based on a toy model involving a particle coupled to a environement made of "qubits" (i.e., Bohmian pointers) we show that entanglement together with deterministic chaos lead to a fast relaxation from any statistitical distribution ρ(x)\rho(x) (of finding a particle at point xx) to the Born probability law Ψ(x)2|\Psi(x)|^2. Our model is discussed in the context of Boltzmann's kinetic theory and we demonstrate a kind of H theorem for the relaxation to the quantum equilibrium regime.

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@article{arxiv.2109.09353,
  title  = {Justifying Born's rule $P_\alpha=|\Psi_\alpha|^2$ using deterministic chaos, decoherence, and the de Broglie-Bohm quantum theory},
  author = {Aurélien Drezet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09353},
  year   = {2021}
}

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