A Dirac sea pilot-wave model for quantum field theory

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/26/015zbMATH Open1118.81484arXivquant-ph/0701085OpenAlexW3098581563MaRDI QIDQ5297534FDOQ5297534

Authors: Samuel Colin, Ward Struyve 

Publication date: 11 July 2007

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a pilot-wave model for quantum field theory in which the Dirac sea is taken seriously. The model ascribes particle trajectories to all the fermions, including the fermions filling the Dirac sea. The model is deterministic and applies to the regime in which fermion number is superselected. This work is a further elaboration of work by Colin, in which a Dirac sea pilot-wave model is presented for quantum electrodynamics. We extend his work to non-electromagnetic interactions, we discuss a cut-off regularization of the pilot-wave model and study how it reproduces the standard quantum predictions. The Dirac sea pilot-wave model can be seen as a possible continuum generalization of a lattice model by Bell. It can also be seen as a development and generalization of the ideas by Bohm, Hiley and Kaloyerou, who also suggested the use of the Dirac sea for the development of a pilot-wave model for quantum electrodynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0701085

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zbMATH Keywords

de Broglie-Bohm hidden variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Quantum field theory; related classical field theories (81T99)

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