M\'emoire sur la m\'ecanique quantique et l'approche ondulatoire

TL;DR

This paper explores wave mechanics as an alternative interpretation of quantum mechanics, focusing on de Broglie's pilot wave theory, Bohmian mechanics, stochastic electrodynamics, and hydrodynamic analogies, challenging the Copenhagen interpretation.

Contribution

It provides an in-depth study of wave-based interpretations of quantum mechanics, emphasizing their causal and realistic aspects as alternatives to the Copenhagen view.

Findings

Wave mechanics offers a causally consistent alternative to Copenhagen interpretation.

De Broglie-Bohm theory successfully explains quantum phenomena with deterministic trajectories.

Analogies with hydrodynamics provide intuitive insights into quantum behavior.

Abstract

The Copenhagen interpretation has been the subject of much criticism, notably by De Broglie and Einstein, because it contradicts the principles of causality and realism. The aim of this essay is to study the wave mechanics as an alternative to traditional quantum mechanics, in the continuity of the ideas of Louis de Broglie: the pilot wave theory of De Broglie (where each particle is associated with a wave which guides it), De Broglie-Bohm theory, stochastic electrodynamics (where the stochastic character of particles is caused by the energy field of the fluctuating vacuum), and the analogies between quantum mechanics and hydrodynamics.