Computational Stochastic Mechanics of a Simple Bound State

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08669v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 16:22:23 GMT
• Title: Computational Stochastic Mechanics of a Simple Bound State
• Authors: Nathaniel A. Lynd,
• Abstract summary: We calculate probability density distributions using concepts of mechanics independent of bootstrapping with a known wave function.<n>We explore the effect of energy defect off of the ground state energy on the velocity field, which dictates how a particle interacts with the background of fluctuations in position.
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• Abstract: Stochastic mechanics is based on the hypothesis that all matter is subject to universal modified Brownian motion. In this report, we calculated probability density distributions using concepts of stochastic mechanics independent of bootstrapping with a known wave function. We calculate a velocity field directly from the potential and total energy and then use the resultant velocity field to do a stochastic Langevin integration over histories to create the probability density distribution for particle position. Using the harmonic oscillator as a minimally sufficient system for our exposition, we explored the effects of spatial and time discretization on solution noise. We explore the effect of energy defect off of the ground state energy on the velocity field, which dictates how a particle interacts with the background of stochastic fluctuations in position, and describes how repulsive drift (negative defect) and constructive oscillation (positive defect) end a stable state as its basin of stability in the velocity field shrinks with increasing energy defect. The results suggest a pathway for future development of stochastic mechanics as a numerical strategy to describe the structure of physical quantum systems for applications in chemistry, materials and information sciences.

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