id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_w4ymipkbxfcvlbjdd2op5uw5ai Joshua Rosaler Is de Broglie-Bohm Theory Specially Equipped to Recover Classical Behavior? 2015 15 .pdf application/pdf 5586 561 68 Supporters of the de Broglie-Bohm (dBB) interpretation of quantum theory argue that because the theory, like classical mechanics, concerns the motions of point particles in 3D space, it is specially suited to recover classical 2For brevity, I refer to the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum theory as "dBB In Section 3, I explain the basic mechanism whereby environmental decoherence helps to recover macroscopic classical behavior in dBB In Section 4, I summarize the analysis of macroscopic classical behavior furnished by decoherence theory on the bare formalism of quantum Bohm's theory posits that the state of any closed system is given by a wave associated with S always follows the classical trajectory of the wave packet Since the wave function in dBB theory obeys the same Schrodinger dynamics as was assumed in the analysis of the previous section, the quantum ./cache/work_w4ymipkbxfcvlbjdd2op5uw5ai.pdf ./txt/work_w4ymipkbxfcvlbjdd2op5uw5ai.txt