Thursday, March 26, 2026

de Broglie and Bohm: photon creation from a radio transmitter

Let us consider a simple semiclassical process which creates photons. Let us have two charged particles (charge Q) whose mass M is macroscopic. We let the particles pass close to each other, so that they send a radio wave with many photons.


                                                                    screen
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                              )   )   )   )   )  radio wave
           ● ---->              
          M, Q                 <---- ●
                                         M, Q


The radio wave will hit a screen far away, and we can determine the positions of individual photons.

We can calculate the shape of the radio wave classically, but we cannot calculate where the individual photons will hit the screen.

The process creates new particles. Is there a way to extend the de Broglie-Bohm model to this case?

Could this work: the photons "pre-exist" in the electric fields of the charges, and are "freed" in the scattering process? Then all the particles could have a hidden variable already at the outset of the experiment, and would sail in a deterministic way to the screen – just as in the double-slit experiment.
















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