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Non-differentiable Bohmian trajectories

Quantum Physics 2010-11-15 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

A solution ψ\psi to Schr\"odinger's equation needs some degree of regularity in order to allow the construction of a Bohmian mechanics from the integral curves of the velocity field (ψ/mψ).\hbar \Im \left( \bigtriangledown \psi /m\psi \right) . In the case of one specific non-differentiable weak solution Ψ\Psi we show how Bohmian trajectories can be obtained for Ψ\Psi from the trajectories of a sequence ΨnΨ.\Psi_{n}\rightarrow \Psi. (For any real tt the sequence Ψn(t,)\Psi_{n}\left( t,\cdot \right) converges strongly.) The limiting trajectories no longer need to be differentiable. This suggests a way how Bohmian mechanics might work for arbitrary initial vectors Ψ\Psi in the Hilbert space on which the Schr\"{o}dinger evolution % \Psi \mapsto e^{-iht}\Psi acts.

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@article{arxiv.1011.2852,
  title  = {Non-differentiable Bohmian trajectories},
  author = {Gebhard Gruebl and Markus Penz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2852},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

12 pages, 4 figures; published in the monography 'Quantum Trajectories', Editor P K Chattaraj , Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, November 1st, 2010

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