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Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Constant-density thermodynamic perturbation theory for quantum fluids

B. Kumar, Nutan Chandra

Published Feb 1, 1982• 0 citations
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10.1016/0378-4371(82)90069-3

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The authors investigate the calculational scheme for an eventual first-principles description of the ground-state energy of the many-boson Schrodinger equation. They employ a model 4 He intermolecular pair potential consisting of a hard core surrounded by an attractive rectangular well. The study is based on the well known low-density expansion for such a system, where three coefficients are known. The first corrections to the fourth coefficient are determined on the basis of the rearranged series being a thermodynamic perturbation expansion, namely one representing perturbation not about the ideal gas but about the hard-sphere fluid. Pade approximants, and variations thereof, are employed to extrapolate to physical regimes in both resulting series, in density as well as in the attractive coupling constant.
This PhD thesis is submitted as a \emph{compendium} of the articles \cite{NS, holographic, topological}. The following has been adapted from their abstracts. Quantum mechanics has been argued to be a coarse--graining of some underlying deterministic theory. Here we support this view by establishing mappings between non-relativistic quantum mechanics and thermodynamic theories, since the latter are the paradigm of an emergent theory. First, we map certain solutions of the Schroedinger equation to solutions of the irrotational Navier--Stokes equation for viscous fluid flow. Although this is formally a generalization of Madelung's hydrodynamical interpretation, the presence of a viscous term leads to a novel interpretation. As a physical model for the fluid itself we propose the quantum probability fluid. It turns out that the (state--dependent) viscosity of this fluid is proportional to Planck's constant, while the volume density of entropy is proportional to Boltzmann's constant. Stationary states have zero viscosity and a vanishing time rate of entropy density. On the other hand, the nonzero viscosity of nonstationary states provides an information--loss mechanism whereby a deterministic theory (a classical fluid governed by the Navier--Stokes equation) gives rise to an emergent theory (a quantum particle governed by the Schroedinger equation). Then, we present a map of standard quantum mechanics onto classical thermodynamics of irreversible processes. In particular, the propagators of the quantum harmonic oscillator are mapped to the conditional probabilities that solve the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation for Markovian Gaussian processes. While no gravity is present in our construction, our map exhibits features that are reminiscent of the holographic principle of quantum gravity. Finally, the classical thermostatics of equilibrium processes is shown to possess a quantum mechanical dual theory with a finite dimensional Hilbert space of quantum states. Specifically, the kernel of a certain Hamiltonian operator becomes the Hilbert space of quasistatic quantum mechanics. The relation of thermostatics to topological field theory is also discussed in the context of the approach of emergence of quantum theory, where the concept of entropy plays a key role.
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