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According to pilot wave theory, the point particle and the matter wave are both real and distinct physical entities (unlike standard quantum mechanics, which postulates no physical particle or wave entities, only observed wave-particle duality). The pilot wave guides the motion of the point particles as described by the guidance equation.
Oct 26, 2001 · Bohmian mechanics, which is also called the de Broglie-Bohm theory, the pilot-wave model, and the causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, is a version of quantum theory discovered by Louis de Broglie in 1927 and rediscovered by David Bohm in 1952.
Mar 21, 2023 · Pilot-wave theory, also known as Bohmian mechanics, proposes that quantum particles are guided by an underlying wave, or “pilot wave,” that determines their behavior. Unlike the Copenhagen interpretation, which treats particles as probabilistic, pilot-wave theory assumes that particles have definite positions and velocities at all times.
The de Broglie–Bohm theory, also known as the pilot wave theory, Bohmian mechanics, Bohm's interpretation, and the causal interpretation, is an interpretation of quantum mechanics. It postulates that in addition to the wavefunction, an actual configuration of particles exists, even when unobserved.
Aug 18, 2017 · Abstract. The current chapter presents a concrete example of a theory which purports to complete the usual quantum mechanical description of physical states (by adding something new).The theory was first proposed, but then prematurely abandoned, by de Broglie in the mid 1920s.
- Travis Norsen
- tnorsen@smith.edu
- 2017
Bohmian mechanics, also known as pilot-wave theory or de Broglie{Bohm the-ory, is a formulation of quantum mechanics whose fundamental axioms are not about what observers will see if they perform an experiment but about what happens in reality. It is therefore called a \quantum theory without observers,"
Mar 5, 2013 · The resulting ‘de Broglian dynamics’ – or pilot-wave theory as de Broglie later called it – was a new approach to the theory of motion, as radical as Einstein's interpretation of the trajectories of falling bodies as geodesics of a curved spacetime, and as far-reaching in its implications.
