dc.contributor.author | Colin, Samuel | |
dc.contributor.author | Struyve, Ward | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T15:36:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T15:36:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.date.modified | 2010-08-02T07:21:37Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 13672630 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1088/1367-2630/12/4/043008 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/33184 | |
dc.description.abstract | The de Broglie-Bohm theory is about non-relativistic point-particles that move deterministically along trajectories. The theory reproduces the predictions of standard quantum theory, given that the distribution of particles over an ensemble of systems, all described by the same wavefunction , equals the quantum equilibrium distribution | |2. Numerical simulations done by Valentini and Westman (2005 Proc. R. Soc. A 461 253) have illustrated that non-equilibrium particle distributions may relax to quantum equilibrium after some time. Here we consider non-equilibrium distributions and their relaxation properties for a particular class of trajectory theories (first studied in detail by Deotto and Ghirardi (1998 Found. Phys. 28 1)) that are empirically equivalent to the de Broglie-Bohm theory in quantum equilibrium. In the examples we studied of such theories, we found a speed-up of the relaxation, compared to the ordinary de Broglie-Bohm theory. Hence non-equilibrium predictions that depend strongly on relaxation properties, such as those studied recently by Valentini, may vary across different trajectory theories. As such, these theories might be experimentally distinguishable. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 2391703 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | IOP Publishing Ltd | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 043008-1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 043008-21 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | New Journal of Physics | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 12 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Quantum Physics not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Physical Sciences | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 020699 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 02 | |
dc.title | Quantum non-equilibrium and relaxation to equilibrium for a class of de Broglie-Bohm-type theories | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Griffith Sciences, School of Natural Sciences | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2010 Institute of Physics Publishing. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. | |
gro.date.issued | 2010 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Colin, Samuel | |