Do(es the influence of) empty waves survive in configuration space?

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10918v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 08:55:45 GMT
• Title: Do(es the influence of) empty waves survive in configuration space?
• Authors: Thomas Durt
• Abstract summary: We show that an effective collapse occurs when a detector clicks and the 3ND empty wave associated to a particle may not influence another particle. The de Broglie-Bohm interpretation implies that we are in principle surrounded by empty waves generated by all particles of the universe, empty waves that will never collapse.
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• Abstract: The de Broglie-Bohm interpretation is a no-collapse interpretation, which implies that we are in principle surrounded by empty waves generated by all particles of the universe, empty waves that will never collapse. It is common to establish an analogy between these pilot-waves and 3D radio-waves, which are nearly devoided of energy but carry nevertheless information to which we may have access after an amplification process. Here we show that this analogy is limited: if we consider empty waves in configuration space, an effective collapse occurs when a detector clicks and the 3ND empty wave associated to a particle may not influence another particle (even if these two particles are identical, e.g. bosons as in the example considered here).

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