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Bohmian loophole in PBR-like theorems
I'm reviving and expanding this question, because of the new paper today, by Aaronson et al. The more general question is:
How does quantum-potential Bohmian mechanics relate to no-go theorems for ...
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Does Dirac's argument against classical mechanics stand in contradiction to Bohm's theory?
In his book on Quantum Mechanics, P.A.M. Dirac talks about the stability of the atom as a means of demonstrating the need for quantum mechanics. He writes:
The necessity for a departure from ...
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In Bohmian mechanics, do electrons move inside an atom?
Look at http://www.bohmian-mechanics.net/whatisbm_pictures_hydrogen.html. It is mentioned that in the rest states of a bound electron, the position of the electron is stationary, since the ...
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Calculate the entropy per atom in Bohmian Mechanics
Bohmian mechanics description of a large number of interacting atoms would require a large phase space due to the large number of classical degrees of freedom. The entropy per atom is given as the ...
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Is Bohmian mechanics incompatible with Leggett inequality?
As far as I know violation of Bell's theorem is not a problem for De Broglie–Bohm theory because this theory is explicitly nonlocal; But since the violation of Leggett inequality is considered to ...
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Does the de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory make any new predictions?
I find the de Broglie-Bohm pilot wave theory interesting but what I still feel missing in the descriptions I could find so far is that it reformulates what we already know but nobody speaks of new ...
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What are the objections to stochastic quantum mechanics? [closed]
I recently discovered the stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics, which is different from the De Broglie-Bohm theory The best article I found on it was very much a comparison of the two by ...
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Does Hardy's paradox represent a proof against Bohm's interpretation of the quantum mechanics?
This is a thought-experiment, see "Quantum Mechanics, Local Realistic Theories, and Lorentz-Invariant Realistic Theories", Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 68, No. 20, page 2981, year 1992, that rules out local ...
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Couder's walking droplets - what are issues of using its intuitions to interpret quantum analogoues? [duplicate]
There are these popular experiments with droplets having wave-particle duality, e.g. here is Veritasium video with 2.3M views, great webpage with materials and videos, a lecture by Couder.
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In Bohmian mechanics, how does the particle's position affect where a particle is detected?
In Bohmian mechanics / pilot wave theory / de Broglie–Bohm theory, my understanding is that a particle's trajectory evolves based on its wave function, and that the position that particle is detected ...
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How does the de Broglie-Bohm picture explain the double-slit experiment with single particles?
If the particle has a single well-defined trajectory in the de Broglie-Bohm theory, how come that the interference pattern still appears even with single particles?
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Does a pilot-wave theory need to be stochastic in a discrete space-time?
I have found an article about Bohmian mechanics on a lattice with discrete space and time, the link of which is given below:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.02883
Here the motion of quantum particles is ...
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De Broglie- Bohm Quantum Theory
From what I have read the Standard Model of Particle Physics uses quantum mechanics,special relativity, along with other assorted mathematics to make predictions and provide a framework for QED, QCD, ...
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Identical particles in Bohmian quantum mechanics
Particles can be distinguished by their trajectories in Bohmian quantum mechanics and there is no natural reason for imposing symmetrization (or anti-symmetrization) of the wave function of the ...
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