Born's Principle, Action-Reaction Problem and Arrow of Time

We try to obtain Born's principle as a result of a subquantum heat death, using classical ${\cal H}$-theorem and the definition of a proper quantum ${\cal H}$-theorem, within the framwork of Bohm's theory. We shall show the possibility of solving the problem of action-reaction asymmetry present in Bohm's theory and the arrow of time problem in our procedure.Comment: 7 pages, Latex file, to appear in Foundations of Physics Letter

Born's principle and Action-Reaction problem

In a recent paper, A.Valentini tried to obtain Born's principle as a result of a subquantum heat death, using classical H-theorem and the definition of a proper quantum H-theorem within the framwork of Bohm's theory. In this paper, we shall show the possibility of solving the problem of action-reaction asymmetry present in Bohm's theory by modifying Valentini's procedure. However, we get his main result too.Comment: Latex file, 9 pages, some extra explanation have been omitte

The Best Copenhagen Tunneling Times

Recently, people have caculated tunneling's characteristic times within Bohmian mechanics. Contrary to some characteristic times defined within the framework of the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, these have reasonable values. Here, we introduce one of available definitions for tunnelling's characteristic times within the standard interpretation as the best definition that can be accepted for the tunneling times. We show that, due to experimental limitations, Bohmian mechanics leads to same tunneling times.Comment: 16 pages, 5 figure

A two-slit experiment which distinguishes between standard and Bohmian quantum mechanics

In this investigation, we have suggested a special two-slit experiment which can distinguish between the standard and the Bohmian quantum mechanics. At the first step, we have shown that observable individual predictions obtained from these two theories are inconsistent for a special case. But, at the ensemble level, they are consistent as was expected. Then, as another special case and using selective detection, it is shown that an observable disagreement between the two theories can exist at the ensemble level of particles. This can encourage new efforts for finding other inconsistencies between the two theories, theoretically and experimentally.Comment: 5 pages, RevTex, no figure

On the Experimental Incompatibility Between Standard and Bohmian Quantum Mechanics

Recently, three experiments have been proposed in order to show that the standard and Bohmian quantum mechanics can have different predictions at the individual level of particles. However, these thought experiments have encountered some objections. In this work, it is our purpose to show that our basic conclusions about those experiments are still intact.Comment: 8 pages, no figures, Revte

Locality and the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger Theorem

In all local realistic theories worked out till now, locality is considered as a basic assumption. Most people in the field consider the inconsistency between local realistic theories and quantum mechanics to be a result of non-local nature of quantum mechanics. In this Paper, we derive the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger type theorem for particles with instantaneous (non-local) interactions at the hidden-variable level. Then, we show that the previous contradiction still exists between quantum mechanics and non-local hidden variable models.Comment: 9 pages, comments welcom

Single-particle Bell-type Inequality

It is generally believed that Bell's inequality holds for the case of entangled states, including two correlated particles or special states of a single particle. Here, we derive a single-particle Bell's inequality for two correlated spin states at two successive times, appealing to the statistical independence condition in an ideal experiment, for a locally causal hidden variables theory. We show that regardless of the locality assumption, the inequality can be violated by some quantum predictions.Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure, Latex file, To appear in Annales de la Fondation Louis de Brogli

Locality Is An Unnecessary Assumption of Bell's Theorem

Without imposing the locality condition,it is shown that quantum mechanics cannot reproduce all the predictions of a special stochastic realistic model used in certain spin-correlation experiments.This shows that the so-called locality condition is an unnecessary assumption of Bell's theorem.Comment: 5 pages LaTe

Reply to: Comment on "Bohmian prediction about a two double-slit experiment and its disagreement with SQM"

In a recent paper, Struyve et al. [Struyve W, De Baere W, De Neve J and De Weirdt S 2003 J. Phys. A 36 1525] attempted to show that the thought experiment proposed in [Golshani M and Akhavan O 2001 J. Phys. A 34 5259, quant-ph/0103101] cannot distinguish between standard and Bohmian quantum mechanics. Here, we want to show that, in spite of their objection, our conclusion still holds out.Comment: 4 pages, no figures, Late

Interaction of a two-level atom with a classical field in the context of Bohmian mechanics

We discuss Bohmian paths of the two-level atoms moving in a waveguide through an external resonance-producing field, perpendicular to the waveguide, and localized in a region of finite diameter. The time spent by a particle in a potential region is not well-defined in the standard quantum mechanics, but it is well-defined in the Bohmian mechanics. Bohm's theory is used for calculating the average time spent by a transmitted particle inside the field region and the arrival-time distributions at the edges of the field region. Using the Runge-Kutta method for the integration of the guidance law, some Bohmian trajectories were also calculated. Numerical results are presented for the special case of a Gaussian wave packet.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figure