scholarly journals Diffusion treatment of quantum mechanics and its consequences

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Zahid Zakir ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Probability Density ◽  
Thermal Energy ◽  
Diffusion Flux ◽  
Action Function ◽  
Rest Energy ◽  
Diffusion Treatment ◽  
Principle Of Relativity ◽  
Continuity Equations

Localized ensemble of free microparticles spreads out as in a frictionless diffusion satisfying the principle of relativity. An ensemble of classical particles in a fluctuating classical scalar field diffuses in a similar way, and this analogy is used to formulate diffusion quantum mechanics (DQM). DQM reproduces quantum mechanics for homogeneous and gravity for inhomogeneous scalar field. Diffusion flux and probability density are related by Fick’s law, diffusion coefficient is constant and invariant. Hamiltonian includes a “thermal” energy, kinetic energies of drift and diffusion flux. The probability density and the action function of drift form a canonical pair and canonical equations for them lead to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Madelung and continuity equations. At canonical transformation to a complex probability amplitude they form a linear Schrödinger equation. DQM explains appearance of quantum statistics, rest energy (“thermal” energy) and gravity (“thermal” diffusion) and leads to a low mass mechanism for composite particles.

scholarly journals Diffusion gravity and its consequences

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Zahid Zakir ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Energy Density ◽  
Thermal Diffusion ◽  
Diffusion Flux ◽  
Homogeneous Field ◽  
Rest Energy ◽  
Local Intensity ◽  
Classical Particles ◽  
Matter Concentration

Diffusion quantum mechanics (DQM), proposed recently (Zakir, 2020-21), describes a conservative diffusion of classical particles in a fluctuating classical scalar field and, in a homogeneous field, derives the formalism of quantum mechanics. In an inhomogeneous scalar field, DQM reproduces gravitation, and in the present paper, the following theory of diffusion gravity and its various consequences are considered. In DQM a part of the energy of the scalar field is transferred to particles as their fluctuation energy (“thermal” energy), appearing as their rest energy (mass). The resulting local decrease in the field’s energy density around a macroscopic body generates “thermal” diffusion flux of particles to this region. The properties of this “thermal” part of conservative diffusion are similar to gravitation. A high matter concentration in some region reduces the local energy density of scalar field sufficiently to reduce the local intensity of fluctuations. Due to the conservativity of diffusion, the increments in the drift velocity of particles are cumulative, and “thermal” diffusion acceleration arises, independent on the particle’s mass. The world lines become curved, and all processes with particles slowdown, which means time dilation. On hypersurfaces of simultaneity t = const, where the scalar field is defined, effective metrics, connection, and curvature arise. They obey to Einstein’s equations following from balance between energies of matter and background scalar field.

scholarly journals Probability in quantum mechanics

1982 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-194
Author(s):  
J. G. Gilson
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Theory ◽  
Stochastic Processes ◽  
Probability Density ◽  
Fluid Theory ◽  
Standing Problem

By using a fluid theory which is an alternative to quantum theory but from which the latter can be deduced exactly, the long-standing problem of how quantum mechanics is related to stochastic processes is studied. It can be seen how the Schrödinger probability density has a relationship to time spent on small sections of an orbit, just as the probability density has in some classical contexts.

scholarly journals A search for a stochastic archetype of quantum probability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim C Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Probability Theory ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Probability Density ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Quantum Probability ◽  
Interference Term ◽  
Mathematical Foundation ◽  
Quantum Process ◽  
Hidden Variable ◽  
Probability Densities

Abstract Superposed wavefunctions in quantum mechanics lead to a squared amplitude that introduces interference into a probability density, which has long been a puzzle because interference between probability densities exists nowhere else in probability theory. In recent years, Man’ko and coauthors have successfully reconciled quantum and classic probability using a symplectic tomographic model. Nevertheless, there remains an unexplained coincidence in quantum mechanics, namely, that mathematically, the interference term in the squared amplitude of superposed wavefunctions gives the squared amplitude the form of a variance of a sum of correlated random variables, and we examine whether there could be an archetypical variable behind quantum probability that provides a mathematical foundation that observes both quantum and classic probability directly. The properties that would need to be satisfied for this to be the case are identified, and a generic hidden variable that satisfies them is found that would be present everywhere, transforming into a process-specific variable wherever a quantum process is active. Uncovering this variable confirms the possibility that it could be the stochastic archetype of quantum probability.

scholarly journals A search for a stochastic archetype of quantum probability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim C Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Probability Theory ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Probability Density ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Quantum Probability ◽  
Interference Term ◽  
Mathematical Foundation ◽  
Classical Probability ◽  
Quantum Process ◽  
Probability Densities

Abstract Superposed wavefunctions in quantum mechanics lead to a squared amplitude that introduces interference into a probability density, which has long been a puzzle because interference between probability densities exists nowhere else in probability theory. In recent years Man’ko and co-authors have successfully reconciled quantum and classical probability using a symplectic tomographic model. Nevertheless, there remains an unexplained coincidence in quantum mechanics, namely that mathematically the interference term in the squared amplitude of superposed wavefunctions has the form of a variance of a sum of correlated random variables and we examine whether there could be an archetypical variable behind quantum probability that provides a mathematical foundation that observes both quantum and classical probability directly. The properties that would need to be satisfied for this to be the case are identified, and a generic variable that satisfies them is found that would be present everywhere, transforming into a process-specific variable wherever a quantum process is active. This hidden generic variable appears to be such an archetype.

The relativistic quantum mechanics of the elementary particles

1949 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 263-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. S. Green
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Density Matrix ◽  
Relativistic Quantum ◽  
Difficult Problem ◽  
Dynamical Variable ◽  
Elementary Particles ◽  
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Principle Of Relativity ◽  
The One ◽  
Real Linear

The search for a theory of the elementary particles which is founded on the well-established principles of quantum mechanics and conforms at the same time with the requirements of the principle of relativity has, in recent years, taken several divergent directions. On the one hand, the second quantization of wave fields derived from a Lagrangian by a variational procedure(1) has succeeded in accounting for the existence and most of the properties of the electron, the photon, and the meson. On the other hand, many generalizations of the Dirac wave equation of the electron(2) have been attempted, with applications to the meson(3) and the proton(4). Heisenberg(5) has considered the much more difficult problem of the interaction between different particles, and has found that the key to the situation is the so-called ‘scattering matrix’, which is nothing other than a limiting form of the relativistic density matrix, as defined in § 2 of this paper. It seems probable that the relativistic density matrix ρ; or statistical operator, as it may be called without reference to representation, will play an important part in relativistic quantum mechanics in the future. It satisfies the same equation as the wave function, but differs from it in being a real linear operator, or a dynamical variable, in the terminology of Dirac.

Nuclear Physics Methods for Problems in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

1998 ◽  
Vol 07 (05) ◽  
pp. 559-571
Author(s):  
Marcos Moshinsky ◽  
Verónica Riquer
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Nuclear Physics ◽  
Bound States ◽  
Relativistic Quantum ◽  
Negative Energy ◽  
Relativistic Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Variational Parameter ◽  
Approximate Methods ◽  
Rest Energy ◽  
Quark Models

Atomic and molecular physicists have developed extensive and detailed approximate methods for dealing with the relativistic versions of the Hamiltonians appearing in their fields. Nuclear physicists were originally more concerned with non-relativistic problems as the energies they were dealing with were normally small compared with the rest energy of the nucleon. This situation has changed with the appearance of the quark models of nucleons and thus the objective of this paper is to use the standard variational procedures of nuclear physics for problems in relativistic quantum mechanics. The 4 × 4α and β matrices in the Dirac equation are replaced by 2 × 2 matrices, one associated with ordinary spin and the other, which we call sign spin, is mathematically identical to the isospin of nuclear physics. The states on which our Hamiltonians will act will be the usual harmonic oscillator ones with ordinary and sign spin and the frequency ω of the oscillator will be our only variational parameter. The example discussed as an illustration will still be the Coulomb problem as the exact energies of the relativistic bound states are available for comparison. A gap of the order of 2mc2 is observed between states of positive and negative energy, that permits the former to be compared with the exact results.

scholarly journals From scalar field theories to supersymmetric quantum mechanics

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (12) ◽  
pp. 1750073 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Bazeia ◽  
F. S. Bemfica
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Scalar Field ◽  
Field Model ◽  
Supersymmetric Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Field Theories ◽  
Quantum Mechanical ◽  
Scalar Field Theory ◽  
Scalar Field Model ◽  
The Subject

In this work, we report a new result that appears when one investigates the route that starts from a scalar field theory and ends on a supersymmetric quantum mechanics. The subject has been studied before in several distinct ways and here, we unveil an interesting novelty, showing that the same scalar field model may describe distinct quantum mechanical problems.

scholarly journals GENERALIZED CONTINUITY EQUATION AND MODIFIED NORMALIZATION IN PT-SYMMETRIC QUANTUM MECHANICS

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (31) ◽  
pp. 2047-2057 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. BAGCHI ◽  
C. QUESNE ◽  
M. ZNOJIL
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Probability Density ◽  
Current Density ◽  
Conservation Law ◽  
Continuity Equation ◽  
Normalization Condition ◽  
Generalized Continuity ◽  
Probability Current ◽  
Symmetric Quantum ◽  
Position Probability

The continuity, equation relating the change in time of the position probability density to the gradient of the probability current density is generalized to PT-symmetric quantum mechanics. The normalization condition of eigenfunctions is modified in accordance with this new conservation law and illustrated with some detailed examples.

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