Bohmian trajectories for Hamiltonians with interior-boundary conditions

DOI10.1007/S10955-019-02335-YzbMATH Open1455.81034arXiv1809.10235OpenAlexW3104346536WikidataQ114225349 ScholiaQ114225349MaRDI QIDQ2194141FDOQ2194141

Authors: Stefan Teufel, Roderich Tumulka, Detlef Dürr, Sheldon Goldstein, Nino Zanghì 

Publication date: 25 August 2020

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

Abstract: Recently, there has been progress in developing interior-boundary conditions (IBCs) as a technique of avoiding the problem of ultraviolet divergence in non-relativistic quantum field theories while treating space as a continuum and electrons as point particles. An IBC can be expressed in the particle-position representation of a Fock vector $psi$ as a condition on the values of $psi$ on the set of collision configurations, and the corresponding Hamiltonian is defined on a domain of vectors satisfying this condition. We describe here how Bohmian mechanics can be extended to this type of Hamiltonian. In fact, part of the development of IBCs was inspired by the Bohmian picture. Particle creation and annihilation correspond to jumps in configuration space; the annihilation is deterministic and occurs when two particles (of the appropriate species) meet, whereas the creation is stochastic and occurs at a rate dictated by the demand for the equivariance of the $|psi{|}^2$ distribution, time reversal symmetry, and the Markov property. The process is closely related to processes known as Bell-type quantum field theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.10235

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zbMATH Keywords

Bohmian mechanicsparticle creation and annihilationGalilean transformationBell-type quantum field theoryregularization of quantum field theorySchrödinger operator with boundary condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65)

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