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Journal of Physics Conference Series

Lorentz violation and quantum mechanics

Andrea Petrucci

Published Jun 1, 2019• 1 citation
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Abstract We report and discuss the results of double-slit-like experiments in the infrared range, which evidence an anomalous behaviour of photon systems under particular (energy and space) constraints. These outcomes apparently disagree both with standard quantum mechanics (Copenhagen interpretation) and with classical and quantum electrodynamics. Possible interpretations can be given in terms of either the existence of de Broglie–Bohm pilot waves associated to photons, and/or the violation of local Lorentz invariance (LLI). We put forward an intriguing hypothesis about the possible connection between these seemingly unrelated points of view by assuming that the pilot wave of a photon is, in the framework of LLI violation, a local deformation of the flat Minkowski spacetime.

DOI
10.1088/1742-6596/1251/1/012040

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