Superluminal Phase Research Articles

Longitudinal oscillations in hot isotropic Maxwellian plasmas

Using the relativistic Vlasov equation and the appropriate Maxwell–Boltzmann–Jüttner distribution for the unperturbed plasma thermal equilibrium state, it is demonstrated that the longitudinal dispersion relation in warm isotropic Maxwellian plasmas has two real roots with superluminal phase speed below a characteristic wave number kc that is determined by the plasma frequency and the plasma temperature. The superluminal oscillations undergo no Landau damping. The relativistically correct analysis leads to markedly different results than previous nonrelativistic work which incorrectly yielded a nonzero imaginary part of the roots for all phase speeds.

Linear acceleration emission in a strong electric field

We consider linear acceleration emission by particles accelerated in a self-consistent longitudinal wave of superluminal phase speed and calculate the expected optical depth. An application to radio pulsar emission is envisaged.

Possible test of the reality of superluminal phase waves and particle phase space motions in the Einstein-de Broglie-Bohm causal stochastic interpretation of quantum mechanics

Recent double-slit type neutron experiments(1)and their theoretical implications(2)suggest that, since one can tell through which slit the individual neutrons travel, coherent wave packets remain nonlocally coupled (with particles one by one), even in the case of wide spatial separation. Following de Broglie's initial proposal,(3)this property can be derived from the existence of the persisting action of real superluminal physical phase waves considered as building blocks of the real subluminal wave field packets which surround individual particle paths in the Einstein-de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics.

Interdependence of the refraction and reflection of light and of Cherenkov radiation (methodological comments)

It is shown that the Snell's law and the relationships governing the Cherenkov effect are alternative descriptions of the same phenomenon, and also that the possibility of existence of superluminal phase velocity is closely related to the quantum principle of indistinguishability (identity) of particles.

Wave Function Collapse as a Real Physical Phenomenon Caused by Vacuum Fluctuations Near the Planck Scale

Abstract It is hypothesized that the collapse of the wave function is a real physical phenomenon caused by vacuum fluctuations near the Planck scale. The hypothesis is suggested by a recently proposed model (Planck aether model) according to which the fundamental kinematic symmetry is the Galilei-group with the Lorentz invariance as a derived dynamic symmetry. The proposed model has the goal to derive all fields and their interactions from an exactly nonrelativistic operator field equation, resembling Heisenberg's relativistic spinor field equation. In this model the groundstate of the vacuum is a superfluid consisting of an equal number of positive and negative Planck masses interacting via delta function potentials and making the cosmological constant equal to zero. Gauge bosons come from transverse waves propagating in a lattice of quantized vortices, and spinors are explained in this model as exciton-like quasiparticles held together by gauge bosons. Because vector gauge bosons move in the model with the velocity of light, objects held together by the forcc fields of these bosons obey Lorentz invariance as a dynamic symmetry. With the longitudinal wave modes moving with a superluminal phase velocity at energies near the Planck scale, it is conjectured that the quantum mechanical wave function is real and that its collapse results from the entrapment of the wave function by these longitudinal superluminal wave modes. Because these modes occur near the Planck scale their very large zero point fluctuations might therefore trigger the collapse even through dense matter. But because the fluctuations are finite, and because the wave modes have a finite albeit very large phase velocity, the quantum mechanical correlations would be broken above a ccrtain finite length. In the limit of a vanishing Planck length, and hence vanishing gravitational constant G, the phase velocity would become infinite, and the same would be true for the length above which the correlations are broken. One therefore may say that in the limit G = 0 the collapse is infinitely fast and that in this limit the correlations are not broken even over arbitrarily large distances