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Recent double-slit type neutron experiments (1) and their theoretical implications (2) suggest that, since one can tell through which slit the individual neutrons travel, coherent wave packets remain nonlocally coupled (with particles one by one), even in the case of wide spatial separation. Following de Broglie's initial proposal, (3) this property can be derived from the existence of the persisting action of real superluminal physical phase waves considered as building blocks of the real subluminal wave field packets which surround individual particle paths in the Einstein-de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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Vigier, J.P. Possible test of the reality of superluminal phase waves and particle phase space motions in the Einstein-de Broglie-Bohm causal stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics. Found Phys 24, 61–83 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02053908
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