The new wave of pilot-wave theory

Bush, John W. M.

doi:10.1063/pt.3.2882

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“…While claims of single-particle diffraction and interference [6] have been contested [7], tunneling [8,9], orbital quantization in both a rotating frame [10][11][12] and harmonic potential [13,14], and wavelike statistics in confined geometries [15][16][17][18] are all robust quantumlike phenomena. This hydrodynamic pilot-wave system and its relation to realist quantum theories, specifically, de Broglie's double-solution pilot-wave theory [19] and its modern extensions [20], were recently reviewed by Bush [21,22].…”

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confidence: 99%

Simulations of pilot-wave dynamics in a simple harmonic potential

2017

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We present the results of a numerical investigation of droplets walking in a harmonic potential on a vibrating fluid bath. The droplet's trajectory is described by an integrodifferential equation, which is simulated numerically in various parameter regimes. We produce a regime diagram that summarizes the dependence of the walker's behavior on the system parameters for a droplet of fixed size. At relatively low vibrational forcing, a number of periodic and quasiperiodic trajectories emerge. In the limit of large vibrational forcing, the walker's trajectory becomes chaotic, but the resulting trajectories can be decomposed into portions of unstable quasiperiodic states.

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Simulations of pilot-wave dynamics in a simple harmonic potential

2017

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“…38 This view of the vacuum, just as ours, rationalizes numerous quantum mechanical phenomena without conceptual conundrums. 18,39 Considering the vacuum as physical as we maintain, one might question: Where have all the photons that embody the space come from?…”

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“…33,54 The old reasoning becomes tangible by the proposed photon-embodied vacuum 23,24,43 and also by other forms of vacuum embodiment. 35,36,38 Since the vacuum maintains balance, i.e., free energy minimum state in relation to all bodies, any action taken by a body, will be balanced by the vacuum's reaction. The local action induces an energy density perturbation which will propagate, e.g., in the form of paired photons throughout the Universe so that eventually all other bodies in the Universe will move too.…”

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On the exhaust of electromagnetic drive

Grahn¹,

Annila

Kolehmainen

2016

AIP Advances

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Recent reports about propulsion without reaction mass have been met on one hand with enthusiasm and on the other hand with some doubts. Namely, closed metal cavities, when fueled with microwaves, have delivered thrust that could eventually maintain satellites on orbits using solar power. However, the measured thrust appears to be without any apparent exhaust. Thus the Law of Action-Reaction seems to have been violated. We consider the possibility that the exhaust is in a form that has so far escaped both experimental detection and theoretical attention. In the thruster’s cavity microwaves interfere with each other and invariably some photons will also end up co-propagating with opposite phases. At the destructive interference electromagnetic fields cancel. However, the photons themselves do not vanish for nothing but continue in propagation. These photon pairs without net electromagnetic field do not reflect back from the metal walls but escape from the resonator. By this action momentum is lost from the cavity which, according to the conservation of momentum, gives rise to an equal and opposite reaction. We examine theoretical corollaries and practical concerns that follow from the paired-photon conclusion.

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“…Its energy is half of a photon's energy. Its reality is further suggested by the fact that atomic spontaneous emission rates in a cavity mode become very long [8] if the existence of Recently, pilot wave theory and experiment, described in [9], have suggested an alternative approach to understanding wave-particle duality. Reference [9] describes a phenomenon in which particles, bouncing liquid drops in this case, interact with waves in a fluid in such a way that particle and wave interference phenomena occur that are analogous to those of optics, although in a very different physical situation.…”

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“…Its reality is further suggested by the fact that atomic spontaneous emission rates in a cavity mode become very long [8] if the existence of Recently, pilot wave theory and experiment, described in [9], have suggested an alternative approach to understanding wave-particle duality. Reference [9] describes a phenomenon in which particles, bouncing liquid drops in this case, interact with waves in a fluid in such a way that particle and wave interference phenomena occur that are analogous to those of optics, although in a very different physical situation. Details of corresponding interactions of photons with a vacuum field are unknown to the author, but the fact that a concrete explanation of wave-particle duality exists for a macroscopic situation motivates the search for an analogous particle-coupled-to-wave explanation of optical phenomena such as those cited above.…”

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Can a Photon Be Separated from Its Wave?

Sica¹

2018

JMP

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An experiment is proposed in which the overall path taken by a photon is indicated by the timing of a twin herald photon, while a particular segment of that path is determined by interference. The needed coincident pairs of photons are generated by type I spontaneous-parametric-down-conversion (SPDC) and diffraction-selected by a grating at the frequency of a two-photon state. This is to be divided into two one-photon states of high coherence length. Upon experimental confirmation that their count coincidences have been maintained, the two single photons are to be used as a timing herald and source for an unequal path interferometer. A photon's path through the interferometer via a short arm is indicated by count synchronization with the herald. The exit output port used and resulting final detection location are determined by the phase in the long arm. If output port usage can be controlled by the phase in the photon-free arm, the path of the photon as particle will have been controlled by interference with an accompanying photon-empty wave.

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The new wave of pilot-wave theory

Abstract: Small drops bouncing across a vibrating liquid bath display many features reminiscent of quantum systems.

Cited by 92 publications

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Simulations of pilot-wave dynamics in a simple harmonic potential

Simulations of pilot-wave dynamics in a simple harmonic potential

On the exhaust of electromagnetic drive

Can a Photon Be Separated from Its Wave?

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