Wave Functions and Bohmian Trajectories in Interference Phenomena
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
In the last few years the hydrodynamic formulation of quantum mechanics, equivalent to the Bohmian equations of motion, has been used to obtain numerical solutions of the Schrodinger equation. Problems, however, have been experienced near wave function nodes (or low probability regions). Here we attempt to compute wave functions and Bohmian trajectories for the interference of one particle or of two identical particles. It turns out that the large number of nodes (i.e. interference minima) makes the hydrodynamic equations impractical, whereas a more straightforward solution of the Schrodinger equation gives very good results.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0407077,
title = {Wave Functions and Bohmian Trajectories in Interference Phenomena},
author = {E. Guay and L. Marchildon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0407077},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
LaTeX, 23 pages including 10 eps figures