Publication:486525

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.02.002zbMATH Open1303.81096arXiv1308.5924OpenAlexW3102555326MaRDI QIDQ486525FDOQ486525

Siegfried Fussy, J. Mesa Pascasio, Gerhard Grössing, Herbert Schwabl

Publication date: 16 January 2015

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a new tool for calculating the interference patterns and particle trajectories of a double-, three- and N-slit system on the basis of an emergent sub-quantum theory developed by our group throughout the last years. The quantum itself is considered as an emergent system representing an off-equilibrium steady state oscillation maintained by a constant throughput of energy provided by a classical zero-point energy field. We introduce the concept of a "relational causality" which allows for evaluating structural interdependences of different systems levels, i.e. in our case of the relations between partial and total probability density currents, respectively. Combined with the application of 21st century classical physics like, e.g., modern nonequilibrium thermodynamics, we thus arrive at a "superclassical" theory. Within this framework, the proposed current algebra directly leads to a new formulation of the guiding equation which is equivalent to the original one of the de Broglie-Bohm theory. By proving the absence of third order interferences in three-path systems it is shown that Born's rule is a natural consequence of our theory. Considering the series of one-, double-, or, generally, of N-slit systems, with the first appearance of an interference term in the double slit case, we can explain the violation of Sorkin's first order sum rule, just as the validity of all higher order sum rules. Moreover, the Talbot patterns and Talbot distance for an arbitrary N-slit device can be reproduced exactly by our model without any quantum physics tool.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1308.5924

zbMATH Keywords

Talbot effectborn's ruleemergent quantum mechanicshierarchical sum rulemultiple-slit experiment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinite-dimensional Lie (super)algebras (17B65) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Infinite-dimensional groups and algebras motivated by physics, including Virasoro, Kac-Moody, (W)-algebras and other current algebras and their representations (81R10)

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