2014/10/06 by Chris D. Richardson, Chris Richardson, Richardson, Chris D. +8
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions #Diverse Philosophical and Cultural Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #physics.flu-dyn #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1410.1373
8 pages, 7 figures
arxiv created 2014/10/06 · openalex publication_date 2014/10/06 · arxiv updated 2014/10/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We explore the hydrodynamic analogues of quantum wave-particle duality in the context of a bouncing droplet system which we model in such a way as to promote comparisons to the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics. Through numerical means we obtain single-slit diffraction and double-slit interference patterns that strongly resemble those reported in experiment and that reflect a striking resemblance to quantum diffraction and interference on a phenomenological level. We, however, identify evident differences from quantum mechanics which arise from the governing equations at the fundamental level.