Waves and Particles in

Light and Matter

Waves and Particles in
Light and Matter

Edited by

Alwyn van der Merwe

University of Denver
Denver, Colorado

and

Augusto Garuccio
University of Bari
Bari, Italy

Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

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Waves and partlcles In 11ght and matter I edlted by Alwyn van der
Merwe and Augusta Garucclo.
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Includes blbllographlcal references and Index.
ISBN 978-1-4613-6088-9 ISBN 978-1-4615-2550-9 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-2550-9
1. Wave-part 1c 1e dua 11 ty--Conqresses. 2. Wave -mot i an, Theory of-
-Cangr"sses. 3. Quantum theary--Congresses. 1. Van der Merwe,
Alwyn. II. Garucclo, Augusta. III. Warkshap an "Waves and
Partlcles In Llght and Matter" (1992 Tranl, Italyl
QC476.W38W43 1994
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PREFACE

From September 24 through 30, 1992 the Workshop on "Waves and Parti-
cles in Light and Matter" was held in the Italian city of Trani in celebration
of the centenary of Louis de Broglie's birth.
As is well known, the relationship between quantum theory and ob-
jective reality was one of the main threads running through the researches
of this French physicist. It was therefore in a fitting tribute to him on his
90th birthday that ten years ago an international conference on the same
subject was convened in Perugia. On that occasion, physicists from all over
the world interested in the problematics of wave-particle duality engaged in
thoughtful debates (the proceedings of which were subsequently published)
on recent theoretical and experimental developments in our understanding
of the foundations of quantum mechanics.
This time around, about 120 scientists, coming from 5 continents, in
the warm and pleasant atmosphere of Trani's Colonna Conference Center
focussed their discussions on recent results concerned with the EPR para-
dox, matter-interferometry, reality of de Broglie's waves, photon detection,
macroscopic quantum coherence, alternative theories to usual quantum
mechanics, special relativity, state reduction, and other related topics.
The workshop was organized in plenary sessions, round tables, and
poster sessions, and the present volume collects most-but not all-of the
presented papers.
A number of acknowledgements are due. We thank, first of all,
the contributors, without whose constant dedication this volume could not
have been published.
Thanks are also due to the City of Trani for its hospitality in putting
the Colonna Conference Center at our disposal.
We are deeply indebted to Prof. Franco Selleri, Chairman of the
Organizing Committee, for his indispensable contributions to the success
of the workshop, and we pay tribute to the secretarial staff, Ms. Rossella
Colmoyer, Mr. Francesco Minerva, and Ms. Gabriella Pugliese, for their
caring assistance.
We finally owe a debt of gratitude for financial support to the Com-
mission of the European Communities and especially to Prof. P. Fasella,
Dr. A. Pozzo, and Dr. W. Hebel. We are also grateful for financial support
from the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the Universita di Bari.

The Editors

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CONTENTS

1. The Great Veil, Reality, and Louis de Broglie: Personal Memories 1

O. Costa de Beauregard
2. The Fallacy of the Arguments against Local Realism 9
in Quantum Phenomena
A. O. Barut

3. Restoring Locality with Faster-than-Light Velocities 19

Philippe H. Eberhard

4. The Wave-Particle Duality and the Aharonov- Bohm Effect 29

Miguel Ferrero and Emilio Santos

5. De Broglie's Wave in Space and Time 37

Augusto Garuccio

6. Interferometry with De Broglie Waves 49

Franz Hasselbach
7. Quantum Mechanics of Ultracold Neutrons 65
V. K. Ignatovich
8. The Physical Interpretation of Special Relativity 85
S. J. Prokhovnik
9. Quantum Neutron Optics 99
Helmut Rauch

10. Some Comments on the De Broglie-Bohm Picture by 125

an Admiring Spectator
Euan J. Squires

11. The Relationship between the Dirac Velocity Operator 139

and the de Broglie Postulate
A. M. A wobode

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12. Optics and Interferometry with Atoms 147

V. l. Balykin

13. Louis de Broglie's Wave-Particle Dualism: Historical 165

and Philosophical Remarks
Hans-Peter Boehm

14. Compatible Statistical Interpretation of Interference in 171

Double-Slit Interferometer
Mirjana Bozic

15. Wave Function Structure and Transactional Interpretation 181

Leonardo Chiatti
16. Intersubjectivity, Relativistic Invariance, and Conditionals 189
(Classical and Quantal)
O. Costa de Beauregard
17. Quantization as a Homogeneous Wave Effect 199
Patrick Cornille

18. In Quest of de Broglie Waves 209

J. R. Croca
19. Why Local Realism? 223
James T. Cushing

20. Bohm's Interpretation of Quantum Field Theory 237

C. Dewdney

21. Proposal for an Experiment to Detect Macroscopic Quantum 251

Coherence with a System of SQUIDS
C. Diambrini-Palazzi

22. On Longitudinal Free Spacetime Electric and Magnetic 259

Fields in the Einstein-de Broglie Theory of Light
M. W. Evans
23. Time-Delayed Interferometry with Nuclear Resonance 295
Yuji Hasegawa and Seishi Kikuta

24. A Counterexample of Bohr's Wave-Particle Complementarity 303

Dipankar Home
CONTENTS ~

25. Classical Electromagnetic Theory of Diffraction and 309

Interference: Edge, Single-Slit and Double-Slit Solutions
S. Jeffers, R. D. Prosser, G. Hunter, and J. Sloan

26. A Quasi-Ergodic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics 337

A. Julg

27. De Broglie Waves and Natural Units 345

Ludwik Kostro

28. A Classical Model for Wave-Particle Duality 359

A. F. K racklauer

29. Towards a Philosophy of Objects 369

Thomas K riiger
30. The Energy-Momentum Transport Wave Function 381
Miroslaw J. Kubiak

31. The Spacetime Structure of Quantum Objects 387

Vito Luigi Lepore

32. H!1lffding and Bohr: Waves or Particles 395

R. N. Moreira

33. Photonic Tunneling Experiments: Superluminal Tunneling 411

G. Nimtz, A: Enders, and H. Spieker
34. Possible Tests of Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics 419
Miroslav Pardy
35. Detection of Empty Waves Contradicts either Special 423
Relativity or Quantum Mechanics
Jaroslaw Pykacz

36. Interferometry with Very Cold Neutrons 429

E. M. Rasel, K. Eder, J. Felber, R. Gahler, R. Golub,
W. Mampe, and A. Zeilinger

37. Velocity-Symmetrizing Synchronization and Conventional 439

Aspects of Relativity
F. Selleri

38. Trajectories of Particles Interacting with Environments 447

Timothy P. Spiller
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39. On the Wave System Theory of the EPR Experiment 463

Thomas B. Andrews
40. CFD or not CFD? That is the Question 473
Donald Bedford
41. Quantum Particle as Seen in Light Scattering 477
Lajos Di6si
42. e2 = ah, the Only Physically Justified
Formulation of Electron 481
Charge, and the Resulting Electron Energy Paradigm
Gerhard Dorda
43. Spacetime Approach to Weinberg-Salam Model: Waves and 495
Particles in Spacetime Structure
Osamu Hara
44. Computer Portrayals of the Sine-Gordon Breather as a 501
Model of the de Broglie Double Solution
Albert J. Hatch
45. Phenomenology of a Subquantum, Realistic, Relativistic Theory 527
William M. Honig
46. p = hi>"? W = hv? A Riddle Prior to any Attempt at 541
Grand Unification
Mioara Mugur-Schiichter
47. Informational Experiments with Microparticles and Atoms 571
Raoul Nakhmanson
48. The Principles of Classical Mechanics and their Actuality 583
in Contemporary Microphysics
Jean Reignier
49. Ascribed to and Described by: Which is More Important? 603
Alberto Rimini
50. Quantization of Generalized Lagrangians: A New Derivation 611
of Dirac's Equation
Martin Rivas
51. Quantum Transition and Temporal Description 617
Jean Salmon
Author Index 625

Subject Index 627