Bohmian Mechanics

By D. Dürr, Sheldon Goldstein, Roderich Tumulka, Nino Zanghí. Compendium of Quantum Physics, 2009

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Bohmian mechanics is a theory about point particles moving along trajectories. It has the property that in a world governed by Bohmian mechanics, observers see the same statistics for experimental results as predicted by quantum mechanics. Bohmian mechanics thus provides an explanation of quantum mechanics. Moreover, the Bohmian trajectories are defined in a non-conspiratorial way by a few simple laws.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, History and Philosophy of Science, Physiology

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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Roger Colbeck
2. Gregg Jaeger
3. Terry Rudolph
4. Matthew S. Leifer
5. Klaas Landsman
6. Robert W. Spekkens
7. Sheldon Goldstein
8. Nino Zanghí

In History and Philosophy of Science

1. Gregg Jaeger
2. Terry Rudolph
3. Robert W. Spekkens
4. Stephen D. Bartlett
5. Sheldon Goldstein
6. Roger Colbeck
7. Nino Zanghí

In Physiology

1. Terry Rudolph
2. Gregg Jaeger
3. Roger Colbeck
4. Klaas Landsman
5. Matthew S. Leifer
6. Robert W. Spekkens
7. C. Ferrie
8. Christopher A. Fuchs

Citations in the corpus

• Reality and the Role of the Wavefunction in Quantum Theory (2011, background): “ are no hidden variables in orthodox quantum theory—there’s just the wave function. So the wave function is certainly not merely epistemic in orthodox quantum theory. And neither is Bohmian mechanics [6, 4, 18] of this form. In Bohmian mechanics it is indeed the case that the wave function sort of h”
• Do We Really Understand Quantum Mechanics? (2012, background): “A review of various objections, some common misunderstandings, and their answers, can be found in §15 of [589].”
• Reconstruction of Gaussian quantum mechanics from Liouville mechanics with an epistemic restriction (2011, background): “Second, and more importantly, we feel that the interpretation of Gaussian quantum mechanics in terms of ERL mechanics is more compelling than most competing interpretations, for instance, Everett’s [79] or the one of de Broglie and Bohm [80], because the latter interpretations are mathematically ins”
• Applied Bohmian mechanics (2014, background): “the same experimental results as standard quantum mechanics17. Furthermore, as Bohm already discussed in his original papers [16], it is also claimed that quantum equilibrium can be derived. See Ref. [10] and also Sect. 3.5.3. Nevertheless, in practical scenarios the initial position and velocity of”
• Is the Quantum State Real? An Extended Review of -ontology Theorems (2014, background): “In modern terms, most realist interpretations of quantum theory; such as many-worlds [6–8], de Broglie-Bohm theory [9–12], spontaneous collapse theories [13, 14], and modal interpretations [15]; view the wavefunction as part of reality, whereas those that follow more Copenhagenish lines [16–26] tend”