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arXiv:1510.03473 · Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

The way from microscopic many-particle theory to macroscopic hydrodynamics

R. Haussmann

Published Feb 23, 2016• 9 citations
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Abstract

Starting from the microscopic description of a normal fluid in terms of any kind of local interacting many-particle theory we present a well defined step by step procedure to derive the hydrodynamic equations for the macroscopic phenomena. We specify the densities of the conserved quantities as the relevant hydrodynamic variables and apply the methods of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with projection operator techniques. As a result we obtain time-evolution equations for the hydrodynamic variables with three kinds of terms on the right-hand sides: reversible, dissipative and fluctuating terms. In their original form these equations are completely exact and contain nonlocal terms in space and time which describe nonlocal memory effects. Applying a few approximations the nonlocal properties and the memory effects are removed. As a result we find the well known hydrodynamic equations of a normal fluid with Gaussian fluctuating forces. In the following we investigate if and how the time-inversion invariance is broken and how the second law of thermodynamics comes about. Furthermore, we show that the hydrodynamic equations with fluctuating forces are equivalent to stochastic Langevin equations and the related Fokker-Planck equation. Finally, we investigate the fluctuation theorem and find a modification by an additional term.

DOI
10.1088/0953-8984/28/11/113001

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Starting from the microscopic description of a normal fluid in terms of any kind of local interacting many-particle theory we present a well defined step by step procedure to derive the hydrodynamic equations for the macroscopic phenomena. We specify the densities of the conserved quantities as the relevant hydrodynamic variables and apply the methods of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics with projection operator techniques. As a result we obtain time-evolution equations for the hydrodynamic variables with three kinds of terms on the right-hand sides: reversible, dissipative and fluctuating terms. In their original form these equations are completely exact and contain nonlocal terms in space and time which describe nonlocal memory effects. Applying a few approximations the nonlocal properties and the memory effects are removed. As a result we find the well known hydrodynamic equations of a normal fluid with Gaussian fluctuating forces. In the following we investigate if and how the time-inversion invariance is broken and how the second law of thermodynamics comes about. Furthermore, we show that the hydrodynamic equations with fluctuating forces are equivalent to stochastic Langevin equations and the related Fokker-Planck equation. Finally, we investigate the fluctuation theorem and find a modification by an additional term.
The macroscopic hydrodynamic equations are derived for many-body systems in the local-equilibrium approach, using the Schrödinger picture of quantum mechanics. In this approach, statistical operators are defined in terms of microscopic densities associated with the fundamentally conserved quantities and other slow modes possibly emerging from continuous symmetry breaking, as well as macrofields conjugated to these densities. Functional identities can be deduced, allowing us to identify the reversible and dissipative parts of the mean current densities, to obtain general equations for the time evolution of the conjugate macrofields, and to establish the relationship to projection-operator methods. The entropy production is shown to be nonnegative by applying the Peierls-Bogoliubov inequality to a quantum integral fluctuation theorem. Using the expansion in the gradients of the conjugate macrofields, the transport coefficients are given by Green-Kubo formulas and the entropy production rate can be expressed in terms of quantum Einstein-Helfand formulas, implying its nonnegativity in agreement with the second law of thermodynamics. The results apply to multicomponent fluids and can be extended to condensed matter phases with broken continuous symmetries.
Differential conservation equations are derived for the mass-, momentum-, and energy-density operators for a 1-component simple fluid of Bose or Fermi particles with arbitrary pairwise interactions. These equations are used in a statistical mechanical derivation of exact equations of motion for the expectations of these operators. The equations of motion are coupled to equations relating these expectations to the local temperature, chemical potential, and fluid velocity. The coupled equations are closed in the sense that the expectations and their thermodynamic conjugates listed above are the only unknowns, although some of the dependence in the equations on the conjugates is expressed only implicitly. The equations of motion are memory-retaining nonlocal generalizations of the classical hydrodynamic equations and apply to a normal fluid arbitrarily far from equilibrium. The formalism is not carried as far as has the corresponding classical formalism because the local equilibrium expectation of the momentum density here does not equal the fluid velocity times the expectation of the mass density as is true in classical statistical mechanics.
Describing emergent macroscopic phenomena in low spatial dimensions is known to be notoriously challenging, primarily due to strong interactions that render perturbative approaches inapplicable. On the other hand, low-dimensional systems host a wealth of unorthodox phenomena. A prominent example is the emergence of superdiffusive transport in one-dimensional interacting systems, traditionally studied in the framework of nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics. After identifying and discussing internal inconsistencies in the previous formulations, in this work we develop a general and systematic approach for constructing effective field theories of one-dimensional hydrodynamic systems in the form of coupled stochastic Langevin-type equations compatible with the physical requirements of local equilibrium states such as the thermodynamic Maxwell relation and fluctuation-dissipation symmetry. We implemented a general numerical integration scheme and exemplified our construction on a simple model of two interacting hydrodynamic modes with a non-Gaussian stationary equilibrium measure.
This is the first of a series of papers dealing with many-particle systems from a unified, nonperturbative point of view. It contains derivations and discussions of various field-theoretical techniques which will be applied in subsequent papers. In a short introduction the general method of approach is summarized, and its relationship to other field-theoretic problems indicated. In the second section the macroscopic properties of the spectra of many-particle systems are described. Asymptotic evaluations are performed which characterize these macroscopic features in terms of intensive parameters, and the relationship of these parameters to thermodynamics is discussed. The special characteristics of the ground state are shown to follow as a limiting case of the asymptotic evaluations. The third section is devoted to the time-dependent field correlation functions, or Green's functions, which describe the microscopic behavior of a multiparticle system. These functions are defined, and related to intensive macroscopic variables when the energy and number of particles are large. Spectral representations and other properties of various one-particle Green's functions are derived. In the fourth section the treatment of non-equilibrium processes is considered. As a particular example, the electromagnetic properties of a system are expressed in terms of the special two-particle Green's function which describes current correlation. The discussion yields specifically a fluctuation-dissipation theorem, a sum rule for conductivity, and certain dispersion relations. The fifth section deals with the differential equations which determine the Green's functions. The boundary conditions that characterize the Green's function equations are exhibited without reference to adiabatic decoupling. A method for solving the equations approximately, by treating the correlations among successively larger numbers of particles, is considered. The first approximation in this sequence is shown to yield a generalized Hartree-like equation. A related, but rigorous, identity for the single-particle Green's function is then derived. A second approximation, which takes certain two-particle correlations into account, is shown to produce various additional effects: The interaction between particles is altered in a manner characterized by the intensive macroscopic parameters, and the modification and spread of the energy-momentum relation come into play. In the final section compact formal expressions for the Green's functions and other physical quantities are derived. Alternative equations and systematic approximations for the Green's functions are obtained.
General discussion of stochastic models In the hydrodynamic theories, one writes equations which describe the system at hand on long time and length scales, using local conservation laws and the presence of broken symmetries to determine the identity of these slowly varying quantities. However, one would like a way to take account of the effects of the more rapidly varying degrees of freedom in such theories. Implicitly, these more rapid degrees of freedom are present in the integrals which determine the transport coefficients in the hydrodynamic equations by way of Kubo relations, but no method is presented to calculate the required integrands. One way to take account of the other degrees of freedom is to take on the entire many body problem all the way down to the atomic or electronic level, as one does in molecular dynamics simulations of various sorts. However, it is useful to have some approximate analytical ways to attack this problem as well. Here we review the basis for the most common such approach, the Langevin equation. For most of this discussion, we will assume that the identity of the slow variable or variables is known and that the separation of time scales is extreme so that the faster variables are essentially instantaneous in a sense we will discuss. These assumptions are not often particularly well justified. However, the resulting formulation has yielded very useful insights and is an important part of the subject.
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