Published December 2013 | Version v1
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A quasi-Bohmian approach for a homogeneous spherical solid body based on its geometric structure

  • 1. Institutes for Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (IPM), Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
  • 2. Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, G. C., Evin, Tehran 19839 (Iran, Islamic Republic of)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran (Iran, Islamic Republic of)

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In this paper we express the space of rotation as a Riemannian space and try to generalize the classical equations of motion of a homogeneous spherical solid body in the domain of quantum mechanics. This is done within Bohm's view of quantum mechanics, but we do not use the Schrödinger equation. Instead, we assume that in addition to the classical potential there is an extra potential and try to obtain it. In doing this, we start from a classical picture based on Hamilton-Jacobi formalism and statistical mechanics but we use an interpretation which is different from the classical one. Then, we introduce a proper action and extremize it. This procedure gives us a mathematical identity for the extra potential that limits its form. The classical mechanics is a trivial solution of this method. In the simplest cases where the extra potential is not a constant, a mathematical identity determines it uniquely. In fact the first nontrivial potential, apart from some constant coefficients which are determined by experiment, is the usual Bohmian quantum potential

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Journal Title
Journal of Mathematical Physics
Journal Volume
54
Journal Issue
12
Journal Page Range
p. 122107-122107.12
ISSN
0022-2488
CODEN
JMAPAQ

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