Stochastic electrodynamics for the free particle
- 1 December 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Vol. 24 (12) , 2751-2761
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.525673
Abstract
The theory of stochastic electrodynamics is applied to the free particle and to the particle moving in a homogeneous field, leading to a complete temperature- and time-dependent description in phase space. After a transient time, the marginal description in configuration space coincides entirely with quantum mechanics, while the phase-space description is only mathematically related to the Wigner distribution. The Schrödinger equation appears as a natural—though incomplete—means of describing the statistical behavior of the electron under these conditions.This publication has 28 references indexed in Scilit:
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