PIRSA:14010106

Does the Quantum Particle know its own Energy?

Sorkin, R. (2014). Does the Quantum Particle know its own Energy?. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/14010106

Sorkin, Rafael. Does the Quantum Particle know its own Energy?. Perimeter Institute, Jan. 21, 2014, https://pirsa.org/14010106 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:14010106,
            doi = {10.48660/14010106},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/14010106},
            author = {Sorkin, Rafael},
            keywords = {Quantum Foundations},
            language = {en},
            title = {Does the Quantum Particle know its own Energy?},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2014},
            month = {jan},
            note = {PIRSA:14010106 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Rafael Sorkin

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

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If a wave function does not describe microscopic reality then what does? Reformulating quantum mechanics in path-integral terms leads to a notion of ``precluded event" and thence to the proposal that quantal reality differs from classical reality in the same way as a set of worldlines differs from a single worldline. One can then ask, for example, which sets of electron trajectories correspond to a Hydrogen atom in its ground state and how they differ from those of an excited state. We address the analogous questions for simple model that replaces the electron by a particle hopping (in discrete time) on a circular lattice.