Wednesday, April 25, 2018

wavefunction - In Bohmian mechanics, do electrons move inside an atom?


Look at http://www.bohmian-mechanics.net/whatisbm_pictures_hydrogen.html. It is mentioned that in the rest states of a bound electron, the position of the electron is stationary, since the wavefunction's phase is not changing. In the Bohmian picture where the electron DOES have an exact position, it should be supposed to stay at a certain point, since it has no Bohmian trajectory.


However, we KNOW that the electron has a kinetic energy of ~13.6eV, which make it have a velocity of ~2E6 m/s. So isn't this a contradiction in the Bohmian picture of the atom?





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