I Did de Broglie contribute later to pilot wave theory?

[Minnesota Joe]

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Did de Broglie make any contributions after taking up pilot wave theory again?

If I recall correctly it was in Adam Becker's book "What is Real?" where I read that late in life de Broglie took up again the pilot wave theory that he had introduced at Solvay in 1927 and that Bohm had done so much work on in the interim.

Did de Broglie make any contributions to pilot wave theory late in life? I have in mind published papers or influential articles.

 

[Minnesota Joe]

Googling a little I found an interesting 1967 interview where de Broglie talks about returning to a causal picture: "As of today, my thoughts lead me to affirm that it would be quite advantageous to go back to much precise pictures because I think that science is always about creating causality links between phenomena and I think that this research of causality will always be extremely productive for science."

 

[akhmeteli]

http://aflb.ensmp.fr/AFLB-classiques/aflb124p001.pdf and references there. I guess one can consider the double solution theory as a development of the pilot wave theory.

 

[Minnesota Joe]

http://aflb.ensmp.fr/AFLB-classiques/aflb124p001.pdf and references there. I guess one can consider the double solution theory as a development of the pilot wave theory.

This is great, thanks!

 

[PhilDSP]

Fortunately there are several textbooks he wrote in French that have been translated to English. One is a general textbook that isn't oriented towards specialists. Others that I know about and have copies are:

Nonlinear Wave Mechanics - Elsevier - 1960 - 304 pages
Introduction to the Vigier Theory of Elementary Particles - Elsevier - 1963 - 138 pages
The Current Interpretation of Wave Mechanics: A Critical Study - Elsevier - 1964 - 94 pages

Of critical relevance to much in QM, in 1934 de Broglie demonstrated that the Dirac Equation exhibits a "shocking failure of symmetry" when applied to the hydrogen atom. He attempted to resolve the situation but could not find a way to do so. (L'electron magnetique, Hermann, Paris, 1934, page 138)

 

[PhilDSP]

P.S. This paper by Claude Daviau and Jacques Bertrand shows how influential de Broglie continued to be and how his discoveries continue to be developed in ways that bring rather important principles into the foreground.

https://file.scirp.org/pdf/JMP_2015112314063920.pdf