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The high energy limit of the trajectory representation of quantum mechanics
The trajectory representation in the high energy limit (Bohr correspondence
principle) manifests a residual indeterminacy. This indeterminacy is compared
to the indeterminacy found in the classical limit (Planck's constant to 0)
[Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 15, 1363 (2000)] for particles in the classically allowed
region, the classically forbiden region, and near the WKB turning point. The
differences between Bohr's and Planck's principles for the trajectory
representation are compared with the differences between these correspondence
principles for the wave representation. The trajectory representation in the
high energy limit is shown to go to neither classical nor statistical
mechanics. The residual indeterminacy is contrasted to Heisenberg uncertainty.
The relationship between indeterminacy and 't Hooft's information loss and
equivalence classes is investigated.Comment: 12 pages of LaTeX. No figures. Incorporated into the "Proceedings of
the Seventh International Wigner Symposium" (ed. M. E. Noz), 24-29 August
2001, U. of Maryland. Proceedings available at
http://www.physics.umd.edu/robo
Welcher Weg? A trajectory representation of a quantum Young's diffraction experiment
The double slit problem is idealized by simplifying each slit by a point
source. A composite reduced action for the two correlated point sources is
developed. Contours of the reduced action, trajectories and loci of transit
times are developed in the region near the two point sources. The trajectory
through any point in Euclidian 3-space also passes simultaneously through both
point sources.Comment: 12 pages LaTeX2e, 9 figures. Typos corrected. Author's final
submission. A companion paper to "Interference, reduced action, and
trajectories", quant-ph/0605120. Keywords: interference, Young's experiment,
entanglement, nonlocality, trajectory representation, determinis
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