An experiment to detect “empty” waves

1994 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Jeffers ◽  
J. Sloan
Keyword(s):  
Empty Waves

Empty waves do not induce stimulated emission in laser media

1988 ◽  
Vol 127 (8-9) ◽  
pp. 387-390 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Mückenheim ◽  
P. Lokai ◽  
B. Burghardt
Keyword(s):  
Stimulated Emission ◽  
Empty Waves ◽  
Laser Media

“On the existence of empty waves in quantum theory”: a comment

1993 ◽  
Vol 175 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 257-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Żukowski
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Empty Waves

Reply to “Empty waves: not necessarily effective”

1992 ◽  
Vol 169 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucien Hardy
Keyword(s):  
Empty Waves

Two-Photon Interference and the Question of Empty Waves

1992 ◽  
pp. 277-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Franco Selleri
Keyword(s):  
Two Photon ◽  
Empty Waves

Direct detection of empty waves contradicts special relativity

1992 ◽  
Vol 171 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 141-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jarosław Pykacz
Keyword(s):  
Special Relativity ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Empty Waves

Can empty waves be detected?

1989 ◽  
Vol 138 (8) ◽  
pp. 359-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter E. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Empty Waves

scholarly journals No-Thing and Causality in Realistic Non-Standard Interpretations of the Quantum Mechanical Wave Function: Ex Nihilo Aliquid?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gino Tarozzi ◽  
Giovanni Macchia
Keyword(s):  
Wave Function ◽  
Physical Reality ◽  
Causality Principle ◽  
Realistic Interpretation ◽  
Orthodox Interpretation ◽  
Empty Waves ◽  
Rational Explanation ◽  
Physical Effects ◽  
Ex Nihilo ◽  
Empty Wave

AbstractIt has been shown that quantum mechanics in its orthodox interpretation violates four different formulations of causality principle endowed with empirical meaning. The present work aims to highlight how even a realistic non-standard interpretation of the theory conflicts with causality in its Cartesian formulation of the principle of the non-inferiority of causes over effects. Such an interpretation, which attributes some form of weak physical reality to the wave function (called empty wave, regarded as a zero-energy wave-like phenomenon), is a sort of precursor of the more recent so-called wavefunction realism. We also discuss a more radical realistic interpretation according to which physical properties can also be assigned to non-metaphysical relative nothing, seen as the simple absence of a particle such as a photon, but not of its corresponding state (no-photon), which is considered real. By interpreting the wave function collapse as a consequence of an interaction with empty waves or of a detection of the no-photon, we will highlight how more real physical effects can derive from lower causes, including relative nothing. Finally, we will show how these interpretations, while violating Cartesian causality in its two variants, do not seem to affect the validity of the principle of a rational explanation that nothing can derive from (absolute) nothing, which does not seem satisfied by the orthodox interpretation.

Empty waves: A genuine effect?

1993 ◽  
Vol 178 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert B Griffiths
Keyword(s):  
Empty Waves
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