Quantum Hamiltonians and Stochastic Jumps
Abstract
With many Hamiltonians one can naturally associate a |Psi|^2-distributed Markov process. For nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, this process is in fact deterministic, and is known as Bohmian mechanics. For the Hamiltonian of a quantum field theory, it is typically a jump process on the configuration space of a variable number of particles. We define these processes for regularized quantum field theories, thereby generalizing previous work of John S. Bell [Phys. Rep. 137, 49 (1986)] and of ourselves [J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36, 4143 (2003)]. We introduce a formula expressing the jump rates in terms of the interaction Hamiltonian, and establish a condition for finiteness of the rates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0303056,
title = {Quantum Hamiltonians and Stochastic Jumps},
author = {Detlef Duerr and Sheldon Goldstein and Roderich Tumulka and Nino Zanghi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0303056},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
43 pages LaTeX, no figures. The old version v2 has been divided in two parts, the first of which is the present version v3, and the second of which is available as quant-ph/0407116