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Zeitschrift für Naturforschung A

The Domain of the Quantum Matter Wave

Bruce Mills

Published Feb 1, 2001• 1 citation
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Abstract

Abstract In quantum mechanics a particle is represented by a complex wave function. This is similar to the classical description of a distributed particle by a real valued density function. However, while classically the combined density of multiple particles can be decomposed into individual densities; the wave function of a multi-particle system can not always be decomposed into wave functions for the individual particles. Hence the classical assumption that density is a property of physical space, which is only possible because of the special topology of classical configuration space, does not work for quantum systems.

DOI
10.1515/zna-2001-0139

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According to the postulates of quantum mechanics, the state of a system is associated with a wave function that contains any measurable information on the system at any time. In this chapter we become familiar with wave functions and how they represent the position of particles within the system. Within the realm of quantum mechanics, the position of particles is not deterministic. It is defined by a probability distribution. The wave function is a position-dependent complex-valued amplitude, whose absolute value squared is identified with the probability density for locating the particle in the position space. This identification of the wave function with a probability amplitude imposes some limitation. Particularly, for a closed system in which the particles are bound, the wave function must be proper (square integrable) and normalizable. These properties are discussed and demonstrated for different coordinate systems.
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This paper aims to point out that a wave function is a description of a quantum spatiotemporal ‎entanglement and the ‎‎transformation between time and space. In any quantum mechanical ‎representation, the real part of the wave function ‎‎represents the space wave and the imaginary ‎part represents the time wave, and they are the space-time itself. Time wave is ‎‎not limited by ‎space and dominates the nonlocality and integrity of a quantum. Matter wave is a four-‎dimensional space-time ‎‎wave, and the basic unit of vacuum is a four-dimensional space-time ‎element stationary relative to the observer. The essence ‎‎of quantum measurement or interaction is ‎that a conjugate condensation equivalent to that determined by inner product ‎‎operation occurs ‎between Space-time waves. Particle property is only the localization effect of quantum global ‎collapse when ‎‎quantum position measurement or equivalent interaction is made.‎