, satisfying Schrödinger’s wave equation (here ). The center of the packet accelerates in the direction . Bohm's causal interpretation (today often called the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation) of non-relativistic quantum mechanics leads to exactly the same experimental predictions as conventional interpretations and it is a fully deterministic theory of particles in motion (not directly measurable), but a motion of a profoundly non-Newtonian sort. From the phase of the wavefunction in the eikonal form , the velocity in the configuration space is found by , with

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Integrating with respect to time the analytic result for is , where is the integration constant, which is used to estimated the positions of the initial particles. The quantum particle acceleration is , which is compared with the classical particle acceleration . Considering both cases, three differences are obvious: First, the quantum motion is a superposition of classical terms (with , the group velocity) and a term due to the spreading of the packet, which is not affected by the external field. Second, the quantum motion in the uniform field does depend on the mass. Third, increasing the mass leads to the classical acceleration (from an observation by Sofia Wechsler). When the particle lies initially at the center of the squared wavefunction () the motion becomes classical. In the causal interpretation, the effective potential is the sum of quantum potential and potential . On the right side, the graphic shows the squared wavefunction and the trajectories. On the left side, you can see the position of the particles, the squared wavefunction (blue), the quantum potential (red), and the velocity (green). The velocity is scaled down.