Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2010-04-26
Physica A 389, 21 (2010) 4473-4484
Physics
Quantum Physics
33 pages, 2 figures.
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.physa.2010.07.017
Based on the modelling of quantum systems with the aid of (classical) non-equilibrium thermodynamics, both the emergence and the collapse of the superposition principle are understood within one and the same framework. Both are shown to depend in crucial ways on whether or not an average orthogonality is maintained between reversible Schroedinger dynamics and irreversible processes of diffusion. Moreover, said orthogonality is already in full operation when dealing with a single free Gaussian wave packet. In an application, the quantum mechanical "decay of the wave packet" is shown to simply result from sub-quantum diffusion with a specific diffusivity varying in time due to a particle's changing thermal environment. The exact quantum mechanical trajectory distributions and the velocity field of the Gaussian wave packet, as well as Born's rule, are thus all derived solely from classical physics.
Fussy Siegfried
Groessing Gerhard
Pascasio Johannes Mesa
Schwabl Herbert
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