Constructing and constraining wave functions for identical quantum particles

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2016.08.009MaRDI QIDQ341592zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Charles T. Sebens

Publication date 16 November 2016

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.08590, https://authors.library.caltech.edu/87046/

zbMATH Keywords

Bohmian mechanicsidentical particlesmany interacting worldsNewtonian quantum mechanicspermutation symmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Representations of finite symmetric groups (20C30) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: I address the problem of explaining why wave functions for identical particles must be either symmetric or antisymmetric (the symmetry dichotomy) within two interpretations of quantum mechanics which include particles following definite trajectories in addition to, or in lieu of, the wave function: Bohmian mechanics and Newtonian quantum mechanics (a.k.a. many interacting worlds). In both cases I argue that, if the interpretation is formulated properly, the symmetry dichotomy can be derived and need not be postulated.

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