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1. A mechanical analog of Bohr's atom based on de Broglie's double-solution approach

Author

Pierre Jamet, Aurélien Drezet, Institut Néel (NEEL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), and Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)

Subjects
electron, particle, semiclassical, Field (physics), General Physics and Astronomy, Semiclassical physics, Electron, 01 natural sciences, 010305 fluids & plasmas, symbols.namesake, Quantization (physics), [PHYS.QPHY]Physics [physics]/Quantum Physics [quant-ph], Quantum mechanics, 0103 physical sciences, 010306 general physics, Quantum, Mathematical Physics, fluid, Physics, Quantum Physics, model, atom, Applied Mathematics, quantum mechanics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Bohr model, relativistic, hydrodynamics, symbols, duality, Coulomb, quantization, Matter wave, classical, Scalar field
Abstract

Motivated by recent developments of hydrodynamical quantum mechanical analogs [J. W. M. Bush, Annu. Rev. Fluid Mech. 47, 269-292 (2015)] we provide a relativistic model for a classical particle coupled to a scalar wave-field through a holonomic constraint. In presence of an external Coulomb field we define a regime where the particle is guided by the wave in a way similar to the old de Broglie phase-wave proposal. Moreover, this dualistic mechanical analog of the quantum theory is reminiscent of the double-solution approach suggested by de Broglie in 1927 and is able to reproduce the Bohr-Sommerfeld semiclassical quantization formula for an electron moving in a atom., Comment: 15 pages

Published
2021

2. Wave/Particle Duality: The La Brea Tar Pit of Quantum Theory.

Author

Klevgard, Paul A.

Subjects
*WAVE-particle duality, *QUANTUM theory, *PHOTONS, *ELECTRONS, *PARTICLES (Nuclear physics), *PHYSICS
Abstract

Why do photons and speeding electrons have both wave features and particle features when common sense tells us that they should be either particle or wave and not an amalgam of both? Part I of this paper deals with photons and argues that there are flaws in the assumptions we have made regarding their particle nature. The argument depends upon distinguishing between two identities of the photon, namely unstored energy and its stored (relativistic) mass. Part II extends these arguments to the case of the speeding electron and argues that current ontological assumptions made about projectiles have exacerbated our confusion about the nature of moving electrons. When regarded ontologically, projectile motion is not as simple as has been assumed by both classical and modern physics. [See also the author's www.einsteinsmethod.com.] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2007
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