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Pilot-wave and beyond: Louis de Broglie and David Bohm’s quest for a quantum ontology
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One hundred years ago, the French physicist Louis de Broglie started his research quest on what would become the pilot-wave interpretation of quantum mechanics debated in 1927 at the Fifth Solvay Conference in Bruxelles. Seventy years ago, the American physicist David Bohm published his two famous articles concerning ‘A Suggested Interpretation of the Quantum Theory in Terms of "Hidden" Variables’ [Phys. Rev. 85, 166–179; 85, 180–193 (1952)]. The work of Bohm recovered and extended the results obtained by de Broglie and later evolved into a complex framework of quantum interpretations known as de Broglie-Bohm, pilot-wave theories or Bohmian mechanics.
In order to celebrate this double birthday the journal Foundations of Physics publishes this year a topical collection “Pilot-wave and beyond” on the developments that have followed the pioneering works of Louis de Broglie and David Bohm on quantum foundations.
This topical collection includes contributions from physicists and philosophers debating around the world about the scientific legacy of Bohm and de Broglie concerning the interpretation and understanding of quantum mechanics.
Editors
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Aurelien Drezet (University of Grenoble, France)
Dr. Aurélien Drezet studied physics at the University of Grenoble, France, where he got his PhD in physics in 2002 in near-field optics. Since 2008 he is a CNRS researcher at Institut Néel, Université Grenoble-Alpes. His activities include experimental and theoretical quantum and nanophotonics, and also more fundamental research on de Broglie-Bohm theories.
Articles (27 in this collection)
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Forewords for the Special Issue ‘Pilot-wave and Beyond: Louis de Broglie and David Bohm’s Quest for a Quantum Ontology’
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- Aurélien Drezet
- Content type: Editorial
- Published: 15 June 2023
- Article: 62
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A Decoherence-Based Approach to the Classical Limit in Bohm’s Theory
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- Davide Romano
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 21 March 2023
- Article: 41
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Rekindling of de Broglie–Bohm Pilot Wave Theory in the Late Twentieth Century: A Personal Account
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- Christopher Dewdney
- Content type: ReviewPaper
- Open Access
- Published: 02 January 2023
- Article: 24
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Relativistic Hydrodynamic Interpretation of de Broglie Matter Waves
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- Yuval Dagan
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 20 December 2022
- Article: 20
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De Broglie-Bohm Theory, Quo Vadis?
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- Vera Matarese
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 20 December 2022
- Article: 18
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Proposed Experiments to Clarify the Real Nature of the Quantum Waves
Authors (first, second and last of 4)
- J. R. Croca
- P. Castro
- R. N. Moreira
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 09 December 2022
- Article: 14
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Do(es the Influence of) Empty Waves Survive in Configuration Space?
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- T. Durt
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 02 December 2022
- Article: 13
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Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Particle Trajectories
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- Serj Aristarhov
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Open Access
- Published: 26 November 2022
- Article: 7
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Beyond the Born Rule in Quantum Gravity
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- Antony Valentini
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 26 November 2022
- Article: 6
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Testing de Broglie’s Double Solution in the Mesoscopic Regime
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- T. Durt
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 26 November 2022
- Article: 2
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Eliminating the Wavefunction from Quantum Dynamics: The Bi-Hamilton–Jacobi Theory, Trajectories and Time Reversal
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- Peter Holland
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Open Access
- Published: 26 November 2022
- Article: 9
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The Point of Primitive Ontology
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- Dustin Lazarovici
- Paula Reichert
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 09 November 2022
- Article: 120
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The Identification of Mean Quantum Potential with Fisher Information Leads to a Strong Uncertainty Relation
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- Yakov Bloch
- Eliahu Cohen
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 29 October 2022
- Article: 117
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de Broglie–Bohm Formulation of Dirac Fields
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- Luca Fabbri
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 29 October 2022
- Article: 116
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Pilot-Wave Theory Without Nonlocality
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- Paul Tappenden
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 06 October 2022
- Article: 107
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On the Galilean Invariance of the Pilot-Wave Theory
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- Valia Allori
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 06 October 2022
- Article: 111
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Relativistic Bohmian Trajectories and Klein-Gordon Currents for Spin-0 Particles
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- M. Alkhateeb
- A. Matzkin
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 19 September 2022
- Article: 104
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A Pilot-Wave Approach to the Many-Body Problem: Beyond the Small Entanglement Approximation
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- Travis Norsen
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 05 September 2022
- Article: 103
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Spin and Contextuality in Extended de Broglie-Bohm-Bell Quantum Mechanics
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- Jeroen C. Vink
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 05 September 2022
- Article: 97
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Bohmian Chaos in Multinodal Bound States
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- Athanasios C. Tzemos
- George Contopoulos
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 26 July 2022
- Article: 85
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Stochastic Bohmian and Scaled Trajectories
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- S. V. Mousavi
- S. Miret-Artés
- Content type: Invited Review
- Published: 19 July 2022
- Article: 78
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Relativistic QFT from a Bohmian Perspective: A Proof of Concept
Authors
- Hrvoje Nikolić
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 19 July 2022
- Article: 80
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Bohmian Mechanics is Not Deterministic
Authors
- Klaas Landsman
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Open Access
- Published: 07 July 2022
- Article: 73
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Probabilities and Certainties Within a Causally Symmetric Model
Authors
- Roderick I. Sutherland
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Open Access
- Published: 07 July 2022
- Article: 75
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Preparation in Bohmian Mechanics
Authors
- Carlo Rovelli
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 24 May 2022
- Article: 59
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From EPR-Schrödinger Paradox to Nonlocality Based on Perfect Correlations
Authors
- Jean Bricmont
- Sheldon Goldstein
- Douglas Hemmick
- Content type: OriginalPaper
- Published: 07 May 2022
- Article: 53