Clues to detect the Pilot Wave in a photon double-slit interference experiment

TL;DR

This paper proposes a feasible variation of the double-slit experiment to detect pilot waves associated with photons and explores the intrinsic nature of photons through potential violations of Local Lorentz Invariance.

Contribution

It introduces an experimental setup to detect pilot waves detached from particles and suggests a geometric approach to understanding photon nature via LLI violation.

Findings

Potential detection of pilot wave effects in photon interference

New insights into photon nature through LLI violation

Experimental feasibility with current double-slit setups

Abstract

The Young double-slit interference pattern produced by quantum objects, like photons, that move through a double-slit is regarded, by the conventional Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, as the evidence of the wave-like behaviour potentially contained in the wave function. On the contrary, a more realistic view of this phenomenon considers the quantum object a particle accompanied by a pilot wave which would be the cause of the interference fringes. This paper proposes a feasible experiment, based on an easy variation of the nowadays common double-slit experimental set-ups, aimed at detecting the effects of the pilot wave once 'detached' from the particles that it steers. Besides, a further realistic idea, based on the geometrical violation of Local Lorentz Invariance (LLI), is put forward as to the intrinsic nature of the photon. This new idea along with the possibly positive results of the experiment would allow us to shed new light on the real nature of quantum objects in term of the geometrical violation of LLI.