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The Nonergodic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

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Recently, the work of the Brazilian physicist Vicent Buonomano has come to my attention through two different ways. On the one hand, I have found a citation of a  1986 Buonomano's paper  (appeared in the Nuovo Cimento journal) in the book "The Einstein, Podolski, and Rosen Paradox, in Atomic, Nuclear, and Particle Physics" by A. Afriat and F. Selleri (Plenum, New York, 1999). In their Chapter 5, devoted to the "Proposed solutions of the paradox", they mention the nonergodic interpretation (NEI) of quantum mechanics , according to which: a sequence of quantum objects, even if separated by large time intervals, do not behave independently in their interactions with the measuring apparatus. These objects may interact with one another by means of memory effects in a hypothetical medium, filling the space they cross on their way toward the measuring instruments. [...] Obviously, interference can happen only after a sufficiently large number of particles have cro...

Tunnelling Particles

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In my 2018 ArXiv paper, several one-dimensional scenarios are simulated to corroborate the model proposed to reproduce Quantum Mechanics in a localistic and realist fashion. Besides free particle , free faller , harmonic oscillator , and the particle-in-a-box scenarios, the last scenario of that paper is the Delta potential . In this scenario , the potential acting on particles has the shape of a Dirac delta function, that is, it is zero everywhere except for a single point, where it has an infinite value. To represent such circumstance, we have set the force function as a finite rectangular barrier, where λ is the amplitude of the Delta potential and ℓ is an arbitrary scale. Classically, particles coming from negative x are transmitted, if λ is smaller than their kinetic energy, or reflected, if λ is larger. Conversely, quantum mechanics, as well as our proposed model, predict that some particles are transmitted even in the latter case. This behavior is often called ...