Another Stochastic Mechanics and its Connection with Quantum Mechanics

摘要

Previously [2004, AIP Conf. Proc., 750, 361], we considered a stochastic mechanics in the form of a stochastic differential equation mdx/dt=μ(t) where μ(t) is a stochastic process defined by the set of Bohmian momentum time histories from an ensemble of particles. In this paper, we consider another stochastic differential equation d2x/dt2=1/m[-dV(x)/dx+ζ(t)] where the stochastic force ζ(t) is a stochastic process defined by the set of quantum force time histories from an ensemble of particles. We show that, if the stochastic process is a purely random process characterized by an n-th order joint probability density in the form of products of delta functions, then the stochastic mechanics with the stochastic force ζ(t) is equivalent to quantum mechanics in the sense that the former yields the same position probability density as the latter. However, for a particular non-purely random process, we show that the stochastic mechanics with the stochastic force ζ(t) is not equivalent to quantum mechanics. Therefore, this stochastic mechanics is also generally not equivalent to quantum mechanics.