On Epstein's trajectory model of non-relativistic quantum mechanics

DOI10.1007/S10701-010-9475-6MaRDI QIDQ618793zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ward Struyve

Publication date 17 January 2011

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.5373

zbMATH Keywords

Bohmian mechanicsde Broglie-Bohm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65)

Abstract: In 1952 Bohm presented a theory about non-relativistic point-particles moving along deterministic trajectories and showed how it reproduces the predictions of standard quantum theory. This theory was actually presented before by de Broglie in 1926, but Bohm's particular formulation of the theory inspired Epstein to come up with a different trajectory model. The aim of this paper is to examine the empirical predictions of this model. It is found that the trajectories in this model are in general very different from those in the de Broglie-Bohm theory. In certain cases they even seem bizarre and rather unphysical. Nevertheless, it is argued that the model seems to reproduce the predictions of standard quantum theory (just as the de Broglie-Bohm theory).

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