Hypersurface Bohm-Dirac models
Abstract
We define a class of Lorentz-invariant Bohmian quantum models for N entangled but noninteracting Dirac particles. Lorentz invariance is achieved for these models through the incorporation of an additional dynamical space-time structure provided by a foliation of space time. These models can be regarded as the extension of Bohm's model for N Dirac particles, corresponding to the foliation into the equal-time hyperplanes for a distinguished Lorentz frame, to more general foliations. As with Bohm's model, there exists for these models an equivariant measure on the leaves of the foliation. This makes possible a simple statistical analysis of position correlations analogous to the equilibrium analysis for (the nonrelativistic) Bohmian mechanics.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- October 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.60.2729
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/9801070
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhRvA..60.2729D
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.Bz;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 17 pages, 3 figures, RevTex. Completely revised version