Reappraisal of the causal interpretation of quantum mechanics and of the quantum potential concept

摘要

The causal interpretation of quantum mechanics, as originally stated bydeBroglie and Bohm, had several attractive features. Among these is thepossibility that it could address some of the most fundamental questions onquantum phenomena. However, subsequent theoretical conjectures, which have nowbeen included in the orthodox view of the deBroglie Bohm theory, are unphysicaland have done much to undermine the original theory's appeal. We, therefore,return to the original theory as our starting point and address one of itsperplexing areas: the quantum potential. By avoiding the unphysical conjectureswe are led to an understanding of the quantum potential which is distinctlydifferent from that of the orthodox deBroglie Bohm view.