1206.1237 (Janne Mikael Karimäki)

Virtual Particle Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics - a non-dualistic
model of QM with a natural probability interpretation    [PDF]

Janne Mikael Karimäki

An interpretation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics is presented in the spirit of Erwin Madelung's hydrodynamic formulation of QM [1] and Louis de Broglie's and David Bohm's pilot wave models [2, 3]. The aims of the approach are as follows: \emph{1) to have a clear ontology for QM, 2) to describe QM in a causal way, 3) to get rid of the wave-particle dualism in pilot wave theories, 4) to provide a theoretical framework for describing creation and annihilation of particles, and 5) to provide a possible connection between particle QM and virtual particles in QFT.} These goals are achieved, if the wave function is replaced by a fluid of so called \emph{virtual} particles. It is also assumed that in this fluid of virtual particles exist a few \emph{real} particles and that only these real particles can be directly observed. This has relevance for the measurement problem in QM and it is found that quantum probabilities arise in a very natural way from the structure of the theory. The model presented here is very similar to a recent computational model of quantum physics [4] and recent Bohmian models of QFT [5, 6].

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