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Does the Schrödinger wave function describe a real physical wave?

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, , Citation Kurt Jung 2011 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 306 012071 DOI 10.1088/1742-6596/306/1/012071

1742-6596/306/1/012071

Abstract

In 1924 Louis de Broglie presented the phase wave model [1]. He postulated that particle and wave coexist. Both objects are coupled to each other by the phase harmony principle, which always tends to synchronize the oscillations of wave and particle.

The escort wave model [2] replenishes the phase wave model by attributing a stochastic velocity component and a potential dependent rest mass to the particle. Moreover it introduces a novel method to deal with standing waves. In this new model a particle's trajectory is continuous but not deterministic because the particle is not only subjected to regular forces derived from external potentials but also to fluctuating forces. On this condition the space dependence of the wave escorting a particle agrees with the Schrödinger wave function.

By a measurement process the phase harmony coupling is broken off. Contrary to the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics the escort wave does not collapse but disappears in the ocean of fluctuating waves, because it is no longer stabilized by the particle. The particle immediately starts to build up a new escort wave by adjusting its phase to the phases of fluctuating waves, whose frequencies and rest systems nearly agree with the corresponding magnitudes of the particle.

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