Model of the Causal Interpretation of Quantum Theory in Terms of a Fluid with Irregular Fluctuations

D. Bohm and J. P. Vigier
Phys. Rev. 96, 208 – Published 1 October 1954
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a physical model leading to the causal interpretation of the quantum theory. In this model, a set of fields which are equivalent in many ways to a conserved fluid, with density |ψ|2, and local stream velocity, dξdt=Sm, act on a particle-like inhomogeneity which moves with the local stream velocity of the equivalent fluid. By introducing the hypothesis of a very irregular and effectively random fluctuation in the motions of the fluid, we are able to prove that an arbitrary probability density ultimately decays into |ψ|2. Thus, we answer an important objection to the causal interpretation, made by Pauli and others. This result is extended to the Dirac equation and to the many-particle problem.

  • Received 14 June 1954

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRev.96.208

©1954 American Physical Society

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D. Bohm

  • Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

J. P. Vigier

  • Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France

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Vol. 96, Iss. 1 — October 1954

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