Can Schrodingerist Wavefunction Physics Explain Brownian Motion? II. The Diffusion Coefficient

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01437v1
• Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2023 21:20:02 GMT
• Title: Can Schrodingerist Wavefunction Physics Explain Brownian Motion? II. The Diffusion Coefficient
• Authors: W. David Wick
• Abstract summary: In the first paper of this series, I investigated whether a wavefunction model of a heavy particle and a collection of light particles might generate "Brownian-Motion-Like" trajectories. I concluded that it was possible, but left unsettled the second claim in Einstein's classical program: diffusive motion. In this paper, I derive a criterion for diffusive motion, as well as an expression for the diffusion coefficient.
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• Abstract: In the first paper of this series, I investigated whether a wavefunction model of a heavy particle and a collection of light particles might generate "Brownian-Motion-Like" trajectories of the heavy particle. I concluded that it was possible, but left unsettled the second claim in Einstein's classical program: diffusive motion, proportional to the square-root of time, as opposed to ballistic motion, proportional to the time. In this paper, I derive a criterion for diffusive motion, as well as an expression for the diffusion coefficient. Unfortunately, as in paper I, no exact solutions are available for the models, making checking the criterion difficult. But a virtue of the method employed here is that, given adequate information about model eigenvalues and eigenfunctions, diffusion can be definitively ruled in or out.

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