Monte Carlo Generation of Bohmian Trajectories
Abstract
We report on a Monte Carlo method that generates one-dimensional trajectories for Bohm's formulation of quantum mechanics that doesn't involve differentiation or integration of any equations of motion. At each time, t=nδ t (n=1,2,3,...), N particle positions are randomly sampled from the quantum probability density. Trajectories are built from the sorted N sampled positions at each time. These trajectories become the exact Bohm solutions in the limits N->∞ and δ t -> 0. Higher dimensional problems can be solved by this method for separable wave functions. Several examples are given, including the two-slit experiment.
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