Questions tagged [bohmian-mechanics]
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Does recent paper show Bohmian mechanics is correct?
The following paper was recently featured in a German science magazine (Spektrum der Wissenschaft): "Experimental nonlocal and surreal Bohmian trajectories" (DOI:10.1126/science.1501466)
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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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Hydrogen atom nodes and Bohmian trajectories
Wouldn't the fact that the solutions to the hydrogen atom orbital shape have nodes prove that the Bohmian interpretation is incorrect, since in that interpretation, the electrons would have a fixed ...
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Is there a video of a double-slit experiment using walking oil droplets (aka dotwaves)?
I've heard there have been experiments with walking droplets in a double-slit setup, and I've seen videos of many of the other quantum phenomenons walking droplets can emulate, but I can't find one of ...
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In the oil droplet experiments that suggest de Broglie’s pilot wave theory might be accurate, what does the fluid surface correspond to?
As a particle travels to a screen, it is traveling through 3-dimensional space. In the oil droplet experiment, there are only two dimensions of any importance—the droplet merely moves along the ...
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Flaws of Broglie–Bohm pilot wave theory?
I recently learned about an oil drop experiment that showed how a classical object can produce quantum like behavior because its assisted by a pilot wave. How has this not gained more attention? What ...
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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 do particles interact in Bohmian mechanics / pilot wave theory / de Broglie–Bohm theory?
I've read that in the de Broglie–Bohm interpretation of QM, the particle directed by its wavefunction has a trajectory (meaning both position and velocity) and that these are the only properties ...
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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-Fort Oil Bath Experiments and Quantum Entanglement Phenomena
The oil bath experiments of Couder and Fort have been able to reproduce various "pilot wave like" quantum behavior on a macroscopic scale. Particularly striking is the fact that the double-slit ...
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Uncertainty Principle and Bohmian mechanics
The Uncertainty Principle is a relationship between measurements of pairs of attributes, position and momentum, as well as energy and time. Perfect precision of one attribute's measurement leads to a ...
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Consistent histories and Bohmian mechanics, many worlds in disguise?
This was posted on here in someone's Phys.SE answer:
No, in the many worlds interpretation, every parallel universe is real, but in consistent histories, once you choose your projection operators, ...
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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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Shor's algorithm and Bohmian Mechanics
Do quantum computer's tell us anything about the foundations of quantum theory? In particular Shor argued in the famous thread by 't Hooft
Why do people categorically dismiss some simple quantum ...
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Quasiparticles in Bohmian mechanics
My questions are about de Broglie-Bohm "pilot wave" interpretation of quantum mechanics (a.k.a. Bohmian mechanics).
Do quasiparticles have any meaning in Bohmian mechanics, or not? Specifically, is ...
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