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View SchemaBohmian Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
| Authors | Detlef Duerr, Sheldon Goldstein, Roderich Tumulka, Nino Zanghi |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0303156 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0303156 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.090402 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.Lett. 93 (2004) 090402 |
Abstract
We discuss a recently proposed extension of Bohmian mechanics to quantum field theory. For more or less any regularized quantum field theory there is a corresponding theory of particle motion, which in particular ascribes trajectories to the electrons or whatever sort of particles the quantum field theory is about. Corresponding to the nonconservation of the particle number operator in the quantum field theory, the theory describes explicit creation and annihilation events: the world lines for the particles can begin and end.
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