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View SchemaPredictions of the hydrodynamic interpretation of quantum mechanics compared with quantum electrodynamics for low energy bremsstrahlung
| Authors | Mark P. Davidson |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0302045 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0302045 |
| Journal | Annales de la Fondation Louis de Broglie, Volume 29, no 4, 2004, pp. 661-680 |
Abstract
It is shown that the hydrodynamic interpretation of a charged quantum particle leads to a different theoretical prediction for low energy bremsstrahlung than does quantum electrodynamics (QED). In the calculations, the electromagnetic fields are treated classically in the hydrodynamic case, but are quantized in QED. Calculations show the hydrodynamic model to have a different and more sensitive dependence on the size and shape of the radiating particle's wave packet then does QED. In particular it is shown that bremsstrahlung is sometimes greatly reduced when the force acting on the particle is localized to a volume small compared to the particle's wave packet. QED exhibits no such reduction. Therefore it is possible to test this effect experimentally. An experiment is proposed. It involves an electron microscope with a Wien filter for producing monochromatic beam electrons and an accurate energy measurement of the particle after passing through a local force field.
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