A survey of Bohmian mechanics

@article{Berndl1995ASO,
  title={A survey of Bohmian mechanics},
  author={Karin Berndl and Martin Daumer and Detlef D{\"u}rr and Sheldon Goldstein and Nino Zangh{\'i}},
  journal={Il Nuovo Cimento B (1971-1996)},
  year={1995},
  volume={110},
  pages={737-750}
}
SummaryBohmian mechanics is the most naively obvious embedding imaginable of Schrödinger’s equation into a completely coherent physical theory. It describes a world in which particles move in a highly non-Newtonian sort of way, one which may at first appear to have little to do with the spectrum of predictions of quantum mechanics. It turns out, however, that, as a consequence of the defining dynamical equations of Bohmian mechanics, when a system has wave function ψ its configuration is… 
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