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View SchemaA new pilot-wave model for quantum field theory
| Authors | W. Struyve, H. Westman |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0602229 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602229 |
| DOI | 10.1063/1.2219372 |
| Journal | AIP Conf. Proc. 844, 321-339 (2006) |
Abstract
We present a way to construct a pilot-wave model for quantum field theory. The idea is to introduce beables corresponding only to the bosonic degrees of freedom and not to the fermionic degrees of freedom of the quantum state. We illustrate this idea for quantum electrodynamics. The beables will be field beables corresponding to the electromagnetic field and they will be introduced in a similar way to that of Bohm's model for the free electromagnetic field. Our approach is analogous to the situation in non-relativistic quantum theory, where Bell treated spin not as a beable but only as a property of the wavefunction.
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