The Dirac-Bohm Picture
@article{Hiley2018TheDP,
title={The Dirac-Bohm Picture},
author={Basil J. Hiley and Glen Dennis},
journal={arXiv: Quantum Physics},
year={2018}
}We examine Dirac's early algebraic approach which introduces the {\em standard} ket and show that it emerges more clearly from a unitary transformation of the operators based on the action. This establishes a new picture that is unitarily equivalent to both the Schrodinger and Heisenberg pictures. We will call this the Dirac-Bohm picture for the reasons we discuss in the paper. This picture forms the basis of the Feynman path theory and allows us to show that the so-called `Bohm trajectories…
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