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A physically real wave associated with any moving particle and travelling in a surrounding material medium was introduced by Louis de Broglie in a series of short notes in 1923 and in a more complete form in his thesis defended in Paris on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-25 Andrei P. Kirilyuk

The electromagnetic component waves, comprising together with their generating oscillatory massless charge a material particle, will be Doppler shifted when the charge hence particle is in motion, with a velocity $v$, as a mere mechanical…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J X Zheng-Johansson , P-I Johansson

We develop a class of soliton solution of {\it linear} Schr\"odinger equation without external potential. The quantum probability density generates its own boundary inside which there is internal vibration whose wave number is determined by…

General Physics · Physics 2009-08-19 Agung Budiyono

We investigate the phenomenon of the diffraction of charged particles by thin material targets using the method of the de Broglie-Bohm quantum trajectories. The particle wave function can be modeled as a sum of two terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 N. Delis , C. Efthymiopoulos , G. Contopoulos

We present here solutions of a non-linear Schroedinger equation in presence of an arbitrary linear external potential. The non-linearity expresses a self-focusing interaction. These solutions are the product of the pilot wave with peaked…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Thomas Durt

A de Broglie-Bohm like model of Dirac equation, that leads to the correct Pauli equations for electrons and positrons in the low-speed limit, is presented. Under this theoretical framework, that affords an interpretation of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 O. Chavoya-Aceves

The concept of walking wave is introduced from classical relativistic positions. One- and three-dimensional walking waves considered with their wave equations and dispersion equations. It is shown that wave characteristics (de Broglie's and…

General Physics · Physics 2012-05-03 A. V. Goryunov

Recently, a new interpretation of quantum mechanics has been developed for the wave nature of a photon, where determinacy in quantum correlations becomes an inherent property without the violation of quantum mechanics. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 S. Kim , Byoung S. Ham

Recently, the properties of bouncing oil droplets, also known as "walkers", have attracted much attention because they are thought to offer a gateway to a better understanding of quantum behaviour. They constitute indeed a macroscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Mohamed Hatifi , Ralph Willox , Samuel Colin , Thomas Durt

We explore the experimental predictions of the local scale invariant, non-Hermitian pilot-wave (de Broglie-Bohm) formulation of quantum theory introduced in arXiv:2601.03567. We use Weyl's definition of gravitational radius of charge to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Indrajit Sen , Matthew Leifer

Pilot-wave hydrodynamics concerns the dynamics of 'walkers,' droplets walking on a vibrating bath, and has provided the basis for the burgeoning field of hydrodynamic quantum analogs. We here explore a theoretical model of pilot-wave…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-22 Bauyrzhan K. Primkulov , Davis J. Evans , Joel B. Been , John W. M. Bush

This paper provides a detailed historical account of early debates over wave-function realism, the modern term for the view that the wave function of quantum theory is physically real. As this paper will show, the idea of physical waves…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Jacob A. Barandes

A new, very different physical model of the universe is proposed. Its virtues include unifying relativity and quantum mechanics, and particles with de Broglie waves. It also appears to provide a truly unified physical basis for…

General Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Ben Kristoffen

We study the Majorana equation from the point of view of the de Broglie-Bohm pilot-wave theory (according to which a quantum ensemble of fermions is not only described by a spinor but also by a distribution of position configurations).…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-06 Samuel Colin

A gauge-invariant wave equation for the dynamics of hybrid quantum-classical systems is formulated by combining the variational setting of Lagrangian paths in continuum theories with Koopman wavefunctions in classical mechanics. We identify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 François Gay-Balmaz , Cesare Tronci

We consider the nature of quantum properties in non-relativistic quantum mechanics (QM) and relativistic QFTs, and examine the connection between formal quantization schemes and intuitive notions of wave-particle duality. Based on the map…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-21 Matthew J. Lake

Inspired by bouncing drop experiments that revealed how macroscopic systems can exhibit wave-particle properties previously thought to be exclusive to quantum systems, we introduce here a new wave-particle system based on internal gravity…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-05-16 Simon Gsell , Patrice Le Gal

We present a semiclassical gravity in the framework of the double scale theory, a new interpretation of quantum mechanics which expands on the de Broglie-Bohm (dBB) theory. In this interpretation, any quantum system is associated with two…

General Physics · Physics 2023-02-23 Michel Gondran , Alexandre Gondran

p-Adic quantum mechanics is constructed from the Dirac-von Neumann axioms identifying quantum states with square-integrable functions on the N-dimensional p-adic space. This choice is equivalent to the hypothesis of the discreteness of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 W. A. Zúñiga-Galindo

In a pilot-wave theory, an individual closed system is described by a wavefunction $\psi(q)$ and configuration $q$. The evolution of the wavefunction and configuration are respectively determined by the Schr\"odinger and guidance equations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-27 Ward Struyve , Antony Valentini