A. Khrennikov, P-ADIC PROBABILITY PREDICTION OF CORRELATIONS BETWEEN PARTICLES IN THE 2-SLIT AND NEUTRON INTERFEROMETRY EXPERIMENTS, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical a, 113(6), 1998, pp. 751-760
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Physics
Journal title
Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical a
We start from Feynman's idea to use negative probabilities to describe
the two-slit experiment and other quantum interference experiments. F
ormally by using negative probability distributions we can explain the
results of the two-slit experiment on the basis of the pure corpuscul
ar picture of quantum mechanics. However, negative probabilities are a
bsurd objects in the framework of the standard Kolmogorov theory of pr
obability. We present a large class of non-Kolmogorovean probability m
odels where negative probabilities are well defined on the frequency b
asis. These are models with probabilities which belong to the so-calle
d field of p-adic numbers. However, these models are characterized by
correlations between trails. Therefore, we predict correlations betwee
n particles in interference experiments. In fact, our predictions are
similar to the predictions of the so-called nonergodic interpretation
of quantum mechanics, which was proposed by V. Buonomano. We propose t
he concrete experiments (in particular, in the framework of the neutro
n interferometry) to verify our predictions on the correlations.