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Bohmian mechanics offers a deterministic alternative to conventional quantum theory through well-defined particle trajectories. While successful in nonrelativistic contexts, its extension to curved spacetime-and hence quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-13 Mohamed Hatifi

In the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, Feynman and Hibbs noted that the trajectory of a particle is continuous but nowhere differentiable. We extend this result to the quantum mechanical path of a relativistic string and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Ansoldi , A. Aurilia , E. Spallucci

The de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics aims to give a realist description of quantum phenomena in terms of the motion of point-like particles following well-defined trajectories. This work is concerned by the de…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-04 A. Matzkin , V. Nurock

Recent philosophical discussions about metaphysical indeterminacy have been substantiated with the idea that quantum mechanics, one of the most successful physical theories in the history of science, provides explicit instances of worldly…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Andrea Oldofredi

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

Quantum gravity aims to describe gravity in quantum mechanical terms. How exactly this needs to be done remains an open question. Various proposals have been put on the table, such as canonical quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity, string…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-22 Nelson Pinto-Neto , Ward Struyve

Bohmian mechanics is a nonlocal hidden-variable interpretation of quantum theory which predicts that particles follow deterministic trajectories in spacetime. Historically, the study of Bohmian trajectories has mainly been restricted to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Joshua Foo , Estelle Asmodelle , Austin P. Lund , Timothy C. Ralph

Bohmian mechanics represents the universe as a set of paths with a probability measure defined on it. The way in which a mathematical model of this kind can explain the observed phenomena of the universe is examined in general. It is shown…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-20 Bruno Galvan

We carry out an investigation into the possibility of developing a Bohmian interpretation based on the continuous motion of point particles for noncommutative quantum mechanics. The conditions for such an interpretation to be consistent are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 G. D. Barbosa , N. Pinto-Neto

We develop a theory based on Bohmian mechanics in which particle world lines can begin and end. Such a theory provides a realist description of creation and annihilation events and thus a further step towards a "beable-based" formulation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Detlef Duerr , Sheldon Goldstein , Roderich Tumulka , Nino Zanghi

This paper examines the physical meaning of the wave function in Bohmian mechanics (BM), addressing the debate between causal and nomological interpretations. While BM postulates particles with definite trajectories guided by the wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Arnaud Amblard , Aurélien Drezet

It is the matter of fact that quantum mechanics operates with notions that are not determined in the frame of the mechanics' formalism. Among them we can call the notion of "wave-particle" (that, however, does not appear in both classical…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Volodymyr Krasnoholovets

In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in Bohmian mechanics as a numerical tool because of its local dynamics, which suggest the possibility of significant computational advantages for the simulation of large quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yair Goldfarb , Ilan Degani , David J. Tannor

This work is about Bohmian mechanics, a non-relativistic quantum theory about the motion of particles and their trajectories, named after its inventor David Bohm (Bohm,1952). This mechanics resolves all paradoxes associated with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 David Navia

Quantum Mechanics is a good example of a successful theory. Most of atomic phenomena are described well by quantum mechanics and cases such as Lamb Shift that are not described by quantum mechanics, are described by quantum electrodynamics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-27 Mahdi Atiq , Mozafar Karamian , Mehdi Golshani

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 indeterministic character of physical laws is generally considered to be the most important consequence of quantum physics. A deterministic point of view, however, together with the possibility of well defined Hamiltonian trajectories,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-29 A. Orefice , R. Giovanelli , D. Ditto

The concepts of quantile position, trajectory, and velocity are defined. For a tunneling quantum mechanical wave packet, it is proved that its quantile position always stays behind that of a free wave packet with the same initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Brandt , H. D. Dahmen , E. Gjonaj , T. Stroh

Recently, Bohmian mechanics has been challenged [Nature 643, 67 (2025)] by studying a system in which the motion of particles cannot be associated only with the gradient of phase of the wave function. We point out that, in general, Bohmian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Hrvoje Nikolic

The present paper is based upon equations obtained in an earlier paper by the author devoted to a new formulation of quantum electrodynamics. The equations describe the structure of the electron as well as its motion in external fields,…

General Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 V. A. Golovko