Need for "special" states in a deterministic theory of quantum mechanics
Abstract
There are several theories or processes which may underlie quantum mechanics and make it deterministic. Some references are given in the main text. Any such theory, plus a number of reasonable assumptions, implies the existence of what I have called ``special" states. The assumptions are conservation laws, obedience (up to a point) of Schrodinger's equation, and a single world, in the sense of the many worlds interpretation (the last one a consequence of any deterministic theory). This article also, for clarity, gives an example of a ``special" state. There is an experimental test of the ``special" state theory.
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@article{arxiv.2301.04021,
title = {Need for "special" states in a deterministic theory of quantum mechanics},
author = {L. S. Schulman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.04021},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures. For v2 I have added the condition (for the validity of my argument) that there not be degrees of freedom invisible to the Schrodinger equation