A minimalist pilot-wave model for quantum electrodynamics

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2007.0144MaRDI QIDQ3508098zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ward Struyve, Hans F. Westman

Publication date 27 June 2008

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3487

zbMATH Keywords

Bohmian mechanicshidden variablespilot-wave theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10)

Abstract: We present a way to construct a pilot-wave model for quantum electrodynamics. 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 show that this is sufficient to reproduce the quantum predictions. 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. After presenting this model we also discuss a simple way for introducing additional beables that represent the fermionic degrees of freedom.

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