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View SchemaOn the Common Structure of Bohmian Mechanics and the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber Theory
| Authors | Valia Allori, Sheldon Goldstein, Roderich Tumulka, Nino Zanghi |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0603027 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0603027 |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/axn012 |
| Journal | Brit.J.Phil.Sci.59:353-389,2008 |
Abstract
Bohmian mechanics and the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber theory provide opposite resolutions of the quantum measurement problem: the former postulates additional variables (the particle positions) besides the wave function, whereas the latter implements spontaneous collapses of the wave function by a nonlinear and stochastic modification of Schr\"odinger's equation. Still, both theories, when understood appropriately, share the following structure: They are ultimately not about wave functions but about ``matter'' moving in space, represented by either particle trajectories, fields on space-time, or a discrete set of space-time points. The role of the wave function then is to govern the motion of the matter.
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