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AN INTERFERENCE EXPERIMENT TO VERIFY THE CORRECTNESS OF THE NON-DUALISTIC INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS

Nakka Gurappa

Published Jan 1, 2020• 0 citations
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According to `the wave-particle non-dualistic interpretation of quantum mechanics at a single-quantum level’ (NI), the SchrOdinger wave function is proposed/shown to be an instantaneous resonant spatial mode in which a quantum moves. To verify this key proposal, a modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer experiment with a single-particle source is proposed. A negative result of this experiment simply implies that the NI is wrong.

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10.13140/rg.2.2.14689.86888

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A new `wave-particle non-dualistic interpretation at a single-quantum level' is presented by showing physical nature of Schrodinger's wave function as an ‘instantaneous resonant spatial mode’ to which a particle's motion is confined. The initial phase associated with a state vector is identified to be related to a particular position eigenstate of particle and hence, equality of quantum mechanical time to classical time is obtained; this equality automatically explains emergence of classical world from underlying quantum world. Derivation of Born rule as a limiting case of the relative frequency of detection is provided for first time, which automatically resolves measurement problem. Also, Born rule derivation is supplemented with a geometrical interpretation. It's shown that non-dualistic interpretation statistically yields Copenhagen interpretation. ``What’s really going on? in Young's double-slit experiment is explained at a single-quantum level. Also, an interference experiment is proposed to verify correctness of non-dualistic interpretation.
A new `wave-particle non-dualistic interpretation at a single-quantum level' is presented by showing the physical nature of Schrodinger's wave function as an ‘instantaneous resonant spatial mode’ to which a particle's motion is confined. The initial phase associated with a state vector is identified to be related to a particular position eigenstate of the particle and hence, the equality of quantum mechanical time to classical time is obtained; this equality automatically explains the emergence of classical world from the underlying quantum world. Derivation of the Born rule as a limiting case of the relative frequency of detection is provided for the first time, which automatically resolves the measurement problem. Also, the Born rule derivation is supplemented with a geometrical interpretation. `What’s really going on' in Young's double-slit and Wheeler's delayed-choice experiments is explained at a single-quantum level. Also, an interference experiment is proposed to verify the correctness of the non-dualistic interpretation.
A new `wave-particle non-dualistic interpretation' at the single-quantum level, existing within the quantum formalism, is presented by showing the Schr\odinger wave function as an `{\it instantaneous resonant spatial mode}' where a particle moves. For the first time, the position eigenstate of a particle is identified to be related to the absolute phase of the wave function in such a way that its position eigen values always lie on a classical trajectory, proving that the `time parameter' is common to both classical and quantum mechanics. It's brought into light that the quantum formalism demands a different kind of boundary conditions to be imposed to the wave function unlike classical formalism and hence naturally yields the Born rule as a limiting case of the relative frequency of detection. This derivation of the Born rule automatically resolves the measurement problem. Also, these boundary conditions immediately expound Bohr's principle of complementarity at a single quantum level. Further, the non-duality naturally contains the required physical mechanism to elucidate why the Copenhagen interpretation is experimentally so successful. The single-quantum phenomenon is then used to unambiguously explain what's really going on in the Young double-slit experiment as anticipated by Feynmann and the same is again used to provide a causal explanation of Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment.