Eliminating the wavefunction from quantum dynamics: the bi-Hamilton-Jacobi theory, trajectories and time reversal

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09235v2
• Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 11:08:51 GMT
• Title: Eliminating the wavefunction from quantum dynamics: the bi-Hamilton-Jacobi theory, trajectories and time reversal
• Authors: Peter Holland
• Abstract summary: We show how quantum evolution may be treated as the autonomous propagation of two coupled congruences. Conservation as expressed through a continuity equation is not a necessary component of a trajectory theory of state. Time-reversal symmetry may be implemented through the collective behaviour of elements.
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• Abstract: We observe that the Schrodinger equation may be written as two real coupled Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ)-like equations, each involving a quantum potential. Developing our established programme of representing the quantum state through exact free-standing deterministic trajectory models, it is shown how quantum evolution may be treated as the autonomous propagation of two coupled congruences. The wavefunction at a point is derived from two action functions, each generated by a single trajectory. The model shows that conservation as expressed through a continuity equation is not a necessary component of a trajectory theory of state. Probability is determined by the difference in the action functions, not by the congruence densities. The theory also illustrates how time-reversal symmetry may be implemented through the collective behaviour of elements that individually disobey the conventional transformation (T) of displacement (scalar) and velocity (reversal). We prove that an integral curve of the linear superposition of two vectors can be derived algebraically from the integral curves of one of the constituent vectors labelled by integral curves associated with the other constituent. A corollary establishes relations between displacement functions in diverse trajectory models, including where the functions obey different symmetry transformations. This is illustrated by showing that a (T-obeying) de Broglie-Bohm trajectory is a sequence of points on the (non-T) HJ trajectories, and vice versa.

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