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===Empty wave function=== [[Lucien Hardy]]<ref>{{cite journal |last=Hardy |first=L. |year=1992 |title=On the existence of empty waves in quantum theory |journal=[[Physics Letters A]] |volume=167 |issue=1 |pages=11β16 |bibcode=1992PhLA..167...11H |doi=10.1016/0375-9601(92)90618-V}}</ref> and [[John Stewart Bell]]<ref name="bell-1992"/> have emphasized that in the de BroglieβBohm picture of quantum mechanics there can exist '''empty waves''', represented by wave functions propagating in space and time but not carrying energy or momentum,<ref name="Selleri">{{cite book |last1=Selleri |first1=F. |last2=Van der Merwe |first2=A. |year=1990 |title=Quantum paradoxes and physical reality |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qUgX3B02ofAC&pg=PA85 |pages=85β86 |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |isbn=978-0-7923-0253-7}}</ref> and not associated with a particle. The same concept was called ''ghost waves'' (or "Gespensterfelder", ''ghost fields'') by [[Albert Einstein]].<ref name="Selleri"/> The empty wave function notion has been discussed controversially.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Zukowski |first=M. |year=1993 |title="On the existence of empty waves in quantum theory": a comment |journal=[[Physics Letters A]] |volume=175 |issue=3β4 |pages=257β258 |bibcode=1993PhLA..175..257Z |doi=10.1016/0375-9601(93)90837-P }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Zeh |first=H. D. |year=1999 |title=Why Bohm's Quantum Theory? |journal=[[Foundations of Physics Letters]] |volume=12 |issue=2 |pages=197β200 |arxiv=quant-ph/9812059 |bibcode= 1999FoPhL..12..197Z |doi=10.1023/A:1021669308832|s2cid=15405774 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Vaidman |first=L. |year=2005 |title=The Reality in Bohmian Quantum Mechanics or Can You Kill with an Empty Wave Bullet? |journal=Foundations of Physics |volume=35 |issue=2 |pages=299β312 |arxiv=quant-ph/0312227 |bibcode=2005FoPh...35..299V |doi=10.1007/s10701-004-1945-2|s2cid=18990771 }}</ref> In contrast, the [[many-worlds interpretation]] of quantum mechanics does not call for empty wave functions.<ref name="bell-1992"/>
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