Real-Valued Charged Fields and Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

Abstract

Schroedinger (Nature, v.169, p.538 (1952)) demonstrated that, contrary to the widespread belief, charged particles may be described by real fields. Therefore the sets of solutions with real-valued charged fields are considered in the present work for some versions of (non-second-quantized) quantum electrodynamics (for Dirac spinors "real-valued" is understood as "satisfying the Majorana condition"). In some of the versions any solution may be obtained from a solution from those sets by a gauge transform. The solutions from those sets have common features suggesting a natural interpretation along the lines of the Bohm interpretation, but no quantum potentials arise, and it is the electromagnetic field, not the wave function, that plays the role of the guiding field.

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