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View SchemaA Survey on Bohmian Mechanics
| Authors | K. Berndl, M. Daumer, D. Dürr, S. Goldstein, N. Zanghi |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9504010 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9504010 |
| DOI | 10.1007/BF02741477 |
| Journal | NuovoCim.B110:737-750,1995 |
Abstract
Bohmian mechanics is the most naively obvious embedding imaginable of Schr\"odinger's equation into a completely coherent physical theory. It describes a world in which particles move in a highly non-Newtonian sort of way, one which may at first appear to have little to do with the spectrum of predictions of quantum mechanics. It turns out, however, that as a consequence of the defining dynamical equations of Bohmian mechanics, when a system has wave function $\psi$ its configuration is typically random, with probability density $\rho$ given by $|\psi|^2$, the quantum equilibrium distribution. It also turns out that the entire quantum formalism, operators as observables and all the rest, is a consequence of Bohmian mechanics.
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