Quantum non-equilibrium and relaxation to equilibrium for a class of de Broglie-Bohm-type theories

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/12/4/043008zbMATH Open1375.81118OpenAlexW2152485749MaRDI QIDQ4594499FDOQ4594499

Authors: Samuel Colin, Ward Struyve 

Publication date: 24 November 2017

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

Abstract: The de Broglie-Bohm theory is about non-relativistic point-particles that move deterministically along trajectories. The theory reproduces the predictions of standard quantum theory, given that the distribution of particles over an ensemble of systems, all described by the same wavefunction $psi$, equals the quantum equilibrium distribution $|psi{|}^2$. Numerical simulations by Valentini and Westman have illustrated that non-equilibrium particle distributions may relax to quantum equilibrium after some time. Here we consider non-equilibrium distributions and their relaxation properties for a particular class of trajectory theories, first studied in detail by Deotto and Ghirardi, that are empirically equivalent to the de Broglie-Bohm theory in quantum equilibrium. For the examples of such theories that we consider, we find a speed-up of the relaxation compared to the ordinary de Broglie-Bohm theory. Hence non-equilibrium predictions that depend strongly on relaxation properties, such as those studied recently by Valentini, may vary for different trajectory theories. As such these theories might be experimentally distinguishable.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.2823

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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