1205.0916 (Emilio Santos)

Towards a stochastic interpretation of quantum physics    [PDF]

Emilio Santos

Arguments are provided for the plausibility that quantum mechanics is a stochastic theory and that many quantum phenomena derive from the existence of a real noise consisting of vacuum fluctuations of the fields existing in nature. I revisit stochastic electrodynamics, a theory that studies classical systems of electrically charged particles immersed in a real electromagnetic zeropoint field with spectral density proportional to the cube of the frequency, Planck\'{}s constant appearing as the parameter fixing the scale. Asides from briefly reviewing known results, I introduce a calculational quantumlike method resting upon the commutator of stochastic processes. An intuitive explanation is offered for some typical quantum features, like the uncertainty principle, the entanglement and the fact that quantum noise looks as not dissipative.

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