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Interference, reduced action, and trajectories

Edward R. Floyd

abstract: Instead of investigating the interference between two stationary, rectilinear wave functions in a trajectory representation by examining the two rectilinear wave functions individually, we examine a dichromatic wave function that is synthesized from the two interfering wave functions. The physics of interference is contained in the reduced action for the dichromatic wave function. As this reduced action is a generator of the motion for the dichromatic wave function, it determines the dichromatic wave function's trajectory. The quantum effective mass renders insight into the behavior of the trajectory. The trajectory in turn renders insight into quantum nonlocality.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0605120
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
12 pages text, 5 figures. Typos corrected. Author's final submission. A companion paper to "Welcher Weg? A trajectory representation of a quantum Young's diffraction experiment", quant-ph/0605121. Keywords: interference, nonlocality, trajectory representation, entanglement, dwell time, determinism
doi:
10.1007/s10701-007-9154-4
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0605120
journal_ref:
Found.Phys.37:1386-1402,2007
created:
2006-05-14
updated:
2007-10-13

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