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Trajectories of Particles Interacting with Environments

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We discuss the behaviour of open quantum systems, quantum objects coupled to environments, in the Schrödinger picture. The object state evolves in a non-linear and stochastic manner. We illustrate this for a frictional environment by calculating the de Broglie-Bohm trajectories for some simple examples.

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  1. School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton Sussex, BN1 9QH, UK

    Timothy P. Spiller

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  1. University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA

    Alwyn van der Merwe

  2. University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Augusto Garuccio

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Spiller, T.P. (1994). Trajectories of Particles Interacting with Environments. In: van der Merwe, A., Garuccio, A. (eds) Waves and Particles in Light and Matter. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2550-9_38

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