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Nonlinear Biomedical Physics

Fractional-calculus diffusion equation

Abdul-Wali Ajlouni, Hussam Alrabaiah

Published May 21, 2010• 7 citations
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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Sequel to the work on the quantization of nonconservative systems using fractional calculus and quantization of a system with Brownian motion, which aims to consider the dissipation effects in quantum-mechanical description of microscale systems. RESULTS: The canonical quantization of a system represented classically by one-dimensional Fick's law, and the diffusion equation is carried out according to the Dirac method. A suitable Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian, describing the diffusive system, are constructed and the Hamiltonian is transformed to Schrodinger's equation which is solved. An application regarding implementation of the developed mathematical method to the analysis of diffusion, osmosis, which is a biological application of the diffusion process, is carried out. Schrödinger's equation is solved. CONCLUSIONS: The plot of the probability function represents clearly the dissipative and drift forces and hence the osmosis, which agrees totally with the macro-scale view, or the classical-version osmosis.

DOI
10.1186/1753-4631-4-3

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Following our work on the quantization of nonconservative systems using fractional calculus, the canonical quantization of a system of free particles in a dissipative medium is carried out according to the Dirac method. A suitable Schro¨dinger equation is set up and solved for the Lagrangian representing this system. The wave function is plotted and the damping effect manifests itself very clearly. This formalism is then applied to the problem of energy loss of charged particles when passing through matter. The results are plotted and the relation between the energy loss and the range agrees qualitatively with experimental results.
Localized ensemble of free microparticles spreads out as in a frictionless diffusion satisfying the principle of relativity. An ensemble of classical particles in a fluctuating classical scalar field diffuses in a similar way, and this analogy is used to formulate diffusion quantum mechanics (DQM). DQM reproduces quantum mechanics for homogeneous and gravity for inhomogeneous scalar field. Diffusion flux and probability density are related by Fick’s law, diffusion coefficient is constant and invariant. Hamiltonian includes a “thermal” energy, kinetic energies of drift and diffusion flux. The probability density and the action function of drift form a canonical pair and canonical equations for them lead to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Madelung and continuity equations. At canonical transformation to a complex probability amplitude they form a linear Schrödinger equation. DQM explains appearance of quantum statistics, rest energy (“thermal” energy) and gravity (“thermal” diffusion) and leads to a low mass mechanism for composite particles.
On the basis of the observational fact that a wave packet, describing the localized ensemble of micro-objects, spreads according to the diffusion law, the quantum equivalence principle is formulated, that the motion of the ensemble of quantum objects is equivalent to the diffusion of the ensemble of classical objects in a fluctuating background field (physical vacuum).The observations also confirm the validity of the principle of relativity for quantum phenomena, formulating as the principle of constancy of quantum fluctuations, that these fluctuations and the describing them diffusion occur identically in all inertial frames.It is shown that these two physical principles, together with the principles of mechanics, lead to the diffusion quantum mechanics (DQM), containing the formalism of quantum mechanics as a particular case.In DKM the relation between the velocity of the diffusion flow and the probability density is given by the diffusion law (Fick's law), while the invariance of diffusion leads to its conservatism (diffusion without friction) and the constancy of the diffusion coefficient, fixed from correspondence with quantum mechanics.In DQM the Hamiltonian includes the kinetic energies of the drift, diffusion flux, and interaction potentials, while the probability density and the drift action function of particles S form a canonical pair.The canonical equations for them then lead to the continuity equation and to the Hamilton-Jacobi-Madelung equation.The probability density in them enters nonlinearly, but in the case of a canonical transformation to the complex amplitude of the probabilities, they are linearized and pass into the Schrödinger equation.As a result, the amplitudes of probabilities add up for the alternatives, i.e. their superposition takes place.DQM based on physical principles is a more general theory than quantum mechanics, since along with classical devices and particles it introduces a third participant of all processes -the background field, which is the source of quantum fluctuations of classical particles.In DQM, the quantum potential is the potential energy associated with localization, quantum statistics appears in the system of many classical particles in the fluctuating background, and composite particles of small size can have a small mass.DQM also explains the existence of rest energy, the constancy of the light velocity (velocity of quantum fluctuations) and predicts the existence and properties of gravitation as thermal diffusion in the inhomogeneous background field.
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This paper is concerned with the modeling and analysis of quantum dissipation and diffusion phenomena in the Schrödinger picture. We derive and investigate in detail the Schrödinger-type equations accounting for dissipation and diffusion effects. From a mathematical viewpoint, this equation allows one to achieve and analyze all aspects of the quantum dissipative systems, regarding the wave equation, Hamilton–Jacobi and continuity equations. This simplification requires the performance of “the Madelung decomposition” of “the wave function”, which is rigorously attained under the general Lagrangian justification for this modification of quantum mechanics. It is proved that most of the important equations of dissipative quantum physics, such as convection-diffusion, Fokker–Planck and quantum Boltzmann, have a common origin and can be unified in one equation.