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We analyze the dynamics of a quantum particle in a one-dimensional bistable potential within the framework of Bohm's quantum mechanics. We give arguments that evidence the fallacy of certain claims found in the literature dealing with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 O. F. de Alcantara Bonfim

We propose a complete proof of the Born rule using an additional postulate stating that for a short enough time {\Delta}t between two measurements, a property of a particle will keep its values fixed. This dynamical postulate allows us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Yakir Aharonov , Tomer Shushi

We present arguments suggesting that deviations from the Born probability rule could be generated for trans-Planckian field modes during inflation. Such deviations are theoretically possible in the de Broglie-Bohm pilot-wave formulation of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-09-29 Antony Valentini

We investigate both ordered and chaotic Bohmian trajectories within the Born distribution of Bohmian particles of an anisotropic 2d quantum harmonic oscillator. We compute the average values of energy, momentum, angular momentum, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Athanasios C. Tzemos , George Contopoulos

In the de Broglie - Bohm formulation of quantum mechanics, the electron is stationary in the ground state of the hydrogen atom, because the quantum force exactly cancels the Coulomb attraction of the electron to the proton. In this paper it…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-07 David C. Lush

Nelson's stochastic quantum mechanics provides an ideal arena to test how the Born rule is established from an initial probability distribution that is not identical to the square modulus of the wave function. Here, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-10 Vincent Hardel , Paul-Antoine Hervieux , Giovanni Manfredi

This is a short review in the theory of chaos in Bohmian Quantum Mechanics based on our series of works in this field. Our first result is the development of a generic theoretical mechanism responsible for the generation of chaos in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 George Contopoulos , Athanasios C. Tzemos

Numerical simulations indicate that the Born rule does not need to be postulated in the de Broglie-Bohm pilot-wave theory, but arises dynamically (relaxation to quantum equilibrium). These simulations were done for a particle in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Samuel Colin

We review the de Broglie-Bohm quantum theory. It is an alternative description of quantum phenomena in accordance with all the quantum experiments already performed. Essentially, it is a dynamical theory about objectively real trajectories…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-05 Nelson Pinto-Neto

We investigate deviations from Born's rule in quantum systems where the quantum-equilibrium hypothesis, $\rho \neq |\Psi|^2$, fails. Using the quantum-hydrodynamic framework, we show that transit-interference phenomena and intrinsic memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 C. Dedes

We discuss the main mechanisms generating chaotic behavior of the quantum trajectories in the de Broglie - Bohm picture of quantum mechanics, in systems of two and three degrees of freedom. In the 2D case, chaos is generated via multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-30 Christos Efthymiopoulos , George Contopoulos , Athanasios C. Tzemos

Bohmian mechnaics is the most naively obvious embedding imaginable of Schr\"odingers's equation into a completely coherent physical theory. It describes a world in which particles move in a highly non-Newtonian sort of way, one which may at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Detlef Dürr , Sheldon Goldstein , Nino Zangh\`ı

Bohmian mechanics is the most naively obvious embedding imaginable of Schr\"odinger's equation into a completely coherent physical theory. It describes a world in which particles move in a highly non-Newtonian sort of way, one which may at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 K. Berndl , M. Daumer , D. Dürr , S. Goldstein , N. Zanghi

We perform an experimental test where we directly observe light-induced electron transitions with a macroscopic spatial discontinuity. The effect is related to the fundamental indivisibility of macroscopic orbit-like quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-27 Sergey A. Emelyanov

Bohmian mechanics is a theory that provides a consistent explanation of quantum phenomena in terms of point particles whose motion is guided by the wave function. In this theory, the state of a system of particles is defined by the actual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Albert Solé , Xavier Oriols , Damiano Marian , Nino Zanghì

The ontological aspect of Bohmian mechanics, as a hidden-variable theory that provides us with an objective description of a quantum world without observers, is widely known. Yet its practicality is getting more and more acceptance and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 A. S. Sanz

The Brownian motion of a quantum particle in a harmonic confining potential and coupled to a harmonic quantum thermal bath is exactly solvable. It is shown that at low enough temperatures the stationary state is non-Gibbsian due to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen , A. E. Allahverdyan

The Brownian motion of a harmonically bound quantum particle and coupled to a harmonic quantum bath is exactly solvable. At low enough temperatures the stationary state is non-Gibbsian due to an entanglement with the bath. This happens when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen , Armen E. Allahverdyan

We initially prepare a quantum linear oscillator weakly coupled to a bath in equilibrium at an arbitrary temperature. We disturb this system by varying a Hamiltonian parameter of the coupled oscillator, namely, either its spring constant or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Ilki Kim

The de Broglie-Bohm theory is a hidden variable interpretation of quantum mechanics which involves particles moving through space with definite trajectories. This theory singles out position as the primary ontological variable.…