# Current-based Simulation Models of Quantum Motion

**Authors:** Johannes Mesa Pascasio

arXiv: 1705.02916 · 2017-05-09

## TL;DR

This paper introduces a classical simulation model for quantum particle motion based on current-based diffusion, reproducing key quantum phenomena like wave-particle duality, energy quantization, and interference patterns.

## Contribution

It develops a classical, current-based diffusion model that replicates quantum trajectories, Born's rule, and interference effects, offering a new perspective on quantum simulation.

## Key findings

- Reproduces Talbot patterns and distances for multi-slit systems
- Derives a ballistic diffusion equation for particle trajectories
- Explains the sweeper effect in double-slit experiments

## Abstract

With purely classical tools a model for a bouncer-walker system of an elementary particle will be derived in this work which reflects the old idea of de Broglie's particle-wave duality. This model contains, on the one hand, a possible explanation of the work-energy exchange between the two separated motions, thereby providing an energy quantisation as originally postulated by Max Planck. On the other hand, the system perfectly obeys the Bohmian-type law of motion in full accordance with quantum mechanics.   For the calculation of elementary particles' trajectories a ballistic diffusion equation will be derived which is a special case of a diffusion equation with a time-dependent diffusivity. Therewith the simulation of spreading of an elementary Gaussian is made easy as will be shown herein.   With these tools one also accounts for Born's rule for multi-slit systems and develops a set of current rules that directly leads to a new formulation of the guiding equation equivalent to the original one of the de Broglie-Bohm theory. As will be shown in this thesis, this tool reproduces Talbot patterns and Talbot distance for an arbitrary multi-slit system.   Moreover, the sweeper effect is shown to arise when the intensity relation of two beams of a double-slit experiment exhibit a big difference. Then, the low-intensity beam is pushed aside in a sense that its initial propagation straight out of the slit is bent towards the side. A sideways screen as an alternative measurement method is proposed.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1705.02916