Bohmian mechanics and consistent histories

✍ Scribed by Robert B Griffiths

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 81 KB
• Volume: 261
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0375-9601
• DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9601(99)00542-3

✦ Synopsis

The interpretations of a particular quantum gedanken experiment provided by Bohmian mechanics and consistent histories are shown to contradict each other, both in the absence and in the presence of a measuring device. The consistent histories result seems closer to standard quantum mechanics, and shows no evidence of the mysterious nonlocal influences present in the Bohmian description.