COMPLEMENTARITY PRINCIPLE AND THE NONLOCAL FOURIER ANALYSIS

Shuji Watanabe

Alladi Sitaram

E. S. Guerra

J. R. Croca

Orthodox quantum mechanics has another implicit postulate stating that temporal and spatial frequencies of the Planck–Einstein and de Broglie formulas can only be linked with the infinite, in time and space, harmonic plane waves of Fourier analysis. From this assumption, nonlocality either in space and time follows directly. This is what is called Fourier Ontology. In order to build nonlinear causal and local quantum physics, it is necessary to reject Fourier ontology and accept that in certain cases a finite wave may have a well defined frequency. Now the mathematical tool to describe this new approach is wavelet local analysis. This more general nonlinear local and causal quantum physics, in the limit of the linear approximation, contains formally orthodox quantum mechanics as a particular case.

We present a scheme in which we investigate the two-slit experiment and the the principle of complementarity.