The Wave Theory and the Quantum Theory

V. P. Belavkin, Виктор Павлович Маслов

We give a review of the most important results on optimal tomography as mathematical wave-pattern recognition theory emerged in the 70's in connection with the problems of optimal estimation and hypothesis testing in quantum theory. In quantum theory such problems are sometimes referred as the problem of optimal measurement of an unknown quantum state, and are the main subject of the emerging mathematical theory of quantum statistics. We develop the results of quantum pattern recognition theory, most of which belong to VPB, further into the direction of wave, rather than particle statistical estimation and hypothesis testing theory, with the aim to include not only quantum matter waves but also classical wave patterns like optical and acoustic waves. We conclude that Hilbert space and operator methods developed in quantum theory are equally useful in the classical wave theory, as soon as the possible observations are restricted to only intensity distributions of waves, i.e. when the wave states are not the allowed observables, as they are not the observables of individual particles in the quantum theory. We show that all characteristic attributes of quantum theory such as complementarity, entanglement or Heisenberg uncertainty relations are also attributes of the generalized wave pattern recognition theory.

Harold T. Davis

Ward Struyve

In this thesis we study the de Broglie-Bohm pilot-wave interpretation of quantum theory. We consider the domain of non-relativistic quantum theory, relativistic quantum theory and quantum field theory, and in each domain we consider the possibility of formulating a pilot-wave interpretation. For non-relativistic quantum theory a pilot-wave interpretation in terms of particle beables can readily be formulated. But this interpretation can in general not straightforwardly be generalized to relativistic wave equations. The problems which prevent us from devising a pilot-wave interpretation for relativistic wave equations also plague the standard quantum mechanical interpretation, where these problems led to the conception of quantum field theory. Therefore most of our attention is focussed on the construction of a pilot-wave interpretation for quantum field theory. We thereby favour the field beable approach, developed amongst others by Bohm, Hiley, Holland, Kaloyerou and Valentini. Although the field beable approach can be successfully applied to bosonic quantum field theory, it seems not straightforward to do so for fermionic quantum field theory.

Jian Hao

The double wave theory is a non statistical quantum theory and a new proe of drterministic theory.This paper derives the choice of wave function in double wave theory based on its fundamental assumption.

Arthur Haas, L. W. Codd