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Quantum Foundations

A persistent particle ontology for QFT in terms of the Dirac sea

arXiv

Authors: Dirk-Andre Deckert, Michael Esfeld, Andrea Oldofredi

Year

2016

Paper ID

7872

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Preprint

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We show that the Bohmian approach in terms of persisting particles that move on continuous trajectories following a deterministic law can be literally applied to QFT. By means of the Dirac sea model - exemplified in the electron sector of the standard model neglecting radiation - we explain how starting from persisting particles, one is led to standard QFT employing creation and annihilation operators when tracking the dynamics with respect to a reference state, the so-called vacuum. Since on the level of wave functions, both formalisms are mathematically equivalent, this proposal provides for an ontology of QFT that includes a dynamics of individual processes, solves the measurement problem and explains the appearance of creation and annihilation events.

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We show that the Bohmian approach in terms of persisting particles that move on continuous trajectories following a deterministic law can be literally applied to QFT.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1608.06141 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06141 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06141

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