Flux continuity and probability conservation in complexified Bohmian mechanics

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Poirier, Bill ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BOHMIAN MECHANICS; BOHMIAN TRAJECTORIES; PROBABILITY CONSERVATION; QUANTUM SYSTEMS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 40749144783     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.022114     Document Type: Article

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