Quantum Phenomena Modeled by Interactions between Many Classical Worlds

2014/02/28 by Michael J. W. Hall, Dirk-André Deckert, D. -A. Deckert +1
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Classical limit #Classical mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum mechanics #Statistical physics #Theoretical physics #Wave function #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevx.4.041013

published as Phys. Rev. X 4, 041013 (2014) · Published version (including further discussion of interpretation and quantum limit)

openalex publication_date 2014/10/23 · arxiv created 2014/10/26 · arxiv updated 2014/10/28 · openalex created_date 2017/09/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Researchers propose a new ``many-interacting-worlds'' theory that could explain quantum mechanics in all its strangeness. Numerical simulations reproduce wave behavior in double-slit experiments assuming as few as 40 worlds.

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