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Complex-extended Bohmian mechanics.

Chia-Chun Chou¹, Robert E Wyatt

¹Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA. chiachun@mail.utexas.edu

The Journal of Chemical Physics

|April 15, 2010

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Complex-extended Bohmian mechanics explores quantum Hamilton-Jacobi and continuity equations by analytically continuing wave functions. This framework recovers standard Bohmian mechanics on the real axis, with unique trajectory behaviors in the complex plane.

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Area of Science:

Theoretical Physics
Quantum Mechanics
Mathematical Physics

Background:

Bohmian mechanics offers a deterministic interpretation of quantum mechanics.
Standard Bohmian mechanics is defined for real-valued wave functions.
Exploring complex extensions can reveal deeper insights into quantum phenomena.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate complex-extended Bohmian mechanics.
To derive complex-extended quantum Hamilton-Jacobi and continuity equations.
To analyze the behavior of quantum trajectories in the complex plane.

Main Methods:

Analytically continuing the wave function in polar form into the complex plane.
Deriving complex-extended versions of the quantum Hamilton-Jacobi and continuity equations.
Comparing complex-extended results with standard real-valued Bohmian mechanics.

Main Results:

Complex-extended Bohmian mechanics recovers standard real-valued Bohmian mechanics on the real axis.
Trajectories on the real axis align with standard Bohmian trajectories.
Trajectories launched away from the real axis do not intersect it and exhibit symmetry.
Trajectories show hyperbolic deflection around wave function nodes in the complex plane.

Conclusions:

Complex-extended Bohmian mechanics provides a consistent framework that reduces to the standard theory on the real axis.
The study reveals novel trajectory dynamics in the complex plane, including hyperbolic deflection.
This extension offers a richer understanding of quantum dynamics beyond the real axis.