A New Approach to The Quantum Mechanics

TL;DR

This paper develops a quantum field theory framework for quantum mechanics, offering a new interpretation, conceptual modifications, and experimental proposals to distinguish interpretations, asserting QFT as the fundamental theory.

Contribution

It introduces a field-theoretic approach to quantum mechanics, proposing a new measurement theory and extending the ensemble interpretation within QFT.

Findings

Derives Schrödinger equation from field theory

Proposes a new quantum measurement assumption resolving EPR paradox

Develops a field-theoretic description of double-slit interference

Abstract

In this paper, we try to give a new approach to the quantum mechanics(QM) on the framework of quantum field theory(QFT). Firstly, we make a detail study on the (non-relativistic) Schr\"odinger field theory, obtaining the Schr\"odinger equation as a field equation, after field quantization, the Heisenberg equations for the momentum and position operators of the particles excited from the (Schr\"odinger) field and the Feynman path integral formula of QM are also obtained. We then give the probability concepts of quantum mechanics in terms of a statistical ensemble, realizing the ensemble(or statistical) interpretation. With these, we make a series of conceptual modifications to the standard quantum mechanics, especially propose a new assumption about the quantum measurement theory which can solve the EPR paradox from the view of the QFT. Besides, a field theoretical description to the double-slit interference experiment is developed, obtaining the required particle number distribution. In the end, we extend all the above concepts to the relativistic case so that the ensemble interpretation is still proper. Two extra topics are added, in the first one, an operable experiment is proposed to distinguish the Copenhagen interpretation from the ensemble one via very different experimental results. While the second topic concerns with the extensions of the concept of coherent state to both the Bosonic and Fermionic field cases, to obtain the corresponding classical fields. And in the concluding section, we make some general comparisons between the standard QM and the one derived from the QFT, from which we claim that the QFT is the fundamental theory.