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Monte Carlo Generation of Bohmian Trajectories

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v1

Abstract

We report on a Monte Carlo method that generates one-dimensional trajectories for Bohm's formulation of quantum mechanics that doesn't involve differentiation or integration of any equations of motion. At each time, t=n\delta t (n=1,2,3,...), N particle positions are randomly sampled from the quantum probability density. Trajectories are built from the sorted N sampled positions at each time. These trajectories become the exact Bohm solutions in the limits N->\infty and \delta t -> 0. Higher dimensional problems can be solved by this method for separable wave functions. Several examples are given, including the two-slit experiment.

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@article{arxiv.0807.0209,
  title  = {Monte Carlo Generation of Bohmian Trajectories},
  author = {T. M. Coffey and R. E. Wyatt and W. C. Schieve},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.0209},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures

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