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Both classical and wave-mechanical monochromatic waves may be treated in terms of exact ray-trajectories (encoded in the structure itself of Helmholtz-like equations) whose mutual coupling is the one and only cause of any diffraction and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Adriano Orefice , Raffaele Giovanelli , Domenico Ditto

In Bohmian mechanics elementary particles exist objectively, as point particles moving according to a law determined by a wavefunction. In this context, questions as to whether the particles of a certain species are real--questions such as,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sheldon Goldstein , James Taylor , Roderich Tumulka , Nino Zanghi

Wave-particle duality is often considered as the modern answer to the problem of the nature of light after more than 2000 years of questioning. It is also the answer given by quantum physics concerning the nature of matter particles and any…

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

One of the most puzzling consequences of interpreting quantum mechanics in terms of concepts borrowed from classical physics, is the so-called wave-particle duality. Usually, wave-particle duality is illustrated in terms of complementarity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Andrea Aiello

The de Broglie - Bohm "pilot-wave" theory replaces the paradoxical wave-particle duality of ordinary quantum theory with a more mundane and literal kind of duality: each individual photon or electron comprises a quantum wave (evolving in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Travis Norsen

In order to arrive at Bohmian mechanics from standard nonrelativistic quantum mechanics one need do almost nothing! One need only complete the usual quantum description in what is really the most obvious way: by simply including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Dürr , S. Goldstein , N. Zanghi

We discuss an article by Steven Weinberg expressing his discontent with the usual ways to understand quantum mechanics. We examine the two solutions that he considers and criticizes and propose another one, which he does not discuss, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Jean Bricmont , Sheldon Goldstein

Bohmian mechanics is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that describes the motion of quantum particles with an ensemble of deterministic trajectories. Several attempts have been made to utilize Bohmian trajectories as a computational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 Tarek A. Elsayed , Klaus Mølmer , Lars Bojer Madsen

The violation of Bell type inequalities in quantum systems manifests that quantum states cannot be described by classical probability distributions. Yet, Bohmian mechanics is a realistic, non-local theory of classical particle trajectories…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-26 Robert C. Helling

We propose that the Schrodinger equation results from applying the classical wave equation to describe the physical system in which subatomic particles play random motion, thereby leading to quantum mechanics. The physical reality described…

General Physics · Physics 2022-04-18 Xue-Shu Zhao , Yu-Ru Ge , Xin Zhao , Hong Zhao

We study wave-particle duality by exploring for the first time effects of a quantum object's source. A single photon emitted from a pair of nonlocally entangled two-level atoms is specifically analyzed. Surprisingly, duality is found to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 X. -F. Qian , G. S. Agarwal

The paper addresses the debate about the empirical status of particles versus wave functions in Bohmian quantum mechanics. It thereby clarifies questions and misconceptions about the role of the particles in the measurement process, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-13 Dustin Lazarovici

I address the problem of explaining why wave functions for identical particles must be either symmetric or antisymmetric (the symmetry dichotomy) within two interpretations of quantum mechanics which include particles following definite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-16 Charles Sebens

The Bohmian formulation of quantum mechanics is used in order to describe the measurement process in an intuitive way without a reduction postulate in the framework of a deterministic single system theory. Thereby the motion of the hidden…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Geiger , G. Obermair , Ch. Helm

In this paper a one to one correspondence is established between space-time metrics of general relativity and the wave equations of quantum mechanics. This is done by first taking the square root of the metric associated with a space and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Paul O'Hara

The significance of proposals that can predict different results for standard and Bohmian quantum mechanics have been the subject of many discussions over the years. Here, we suggest a particular experiment (a two double-slit experiment)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Golshani , O. Akhavan

Bohmian mechanics is a quantum theory with a clear ontology. To make clear what we mean by this, we shall proceed by recalling first what are the problems of quantum mechanics. We shall then briefly sketch the basics of Bohmian mechanics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Valia Allori , Nino Zangh\`ı

Aiming at providing an objective motion picture for the microscopic object described by the wave function, new analysis about motion is presented by use of the point set theory in mathematics, through which we show that a new kind of motion…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gao Shan

Bohmian mechanics, also known as pilot-wave theory or de Broglie-Bohm theory, is a formulation of quantum mechanics whose fundamental axioms are not about what observers will see if they perform an experiment but about what happens in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-15 Roderich Tumulka