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Physical Science & Biophysics Journal

Evolution and Dynamics of Quantum Fluids

S Sengupta

Published Jan 11, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

Quantum Fluids follow Quantum Dynamical Equation(s), which were not known till date. There exist a set of two equations that is semi classical approach to Quantum Fluids called Madelung’s Equations. But a new fully quantum variant of Madelung’s Equations when embedded in the Schrodinger Equation is gives full description of evolution of Quantum fluid with respect to time and position. The equation presented in this article has two unknown variables, one is density and other is velocity field as a function of spatial and time coordinates. The equation presented in this article, is derived from Schrodinger Equation, obeying Continuity equation, and Navier Strokes Equation. Bohm’s potential was externally added in Madeline’s equation. But the new equation which is fully quantum mechanical in nature; Bohm’s potential appears out of the equation, which is interesting to observe. Astrophysical cold stellar dynamics and condensed fluids have the main application of this equation. Quantum fluids show strange behaviour when compared to normal fluids. It is also shown that quantum fluid also has spins which has no classical analog.

DOI
10.23880/psbj-16000211

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We present a mapping between a Schrödinger equation with a shifted nonlinear potential and the Navier–Stokes equation. Following a generalization of the Madelung transformations, we show that the inclusion of the Bohm quantum potential plus the laplacian of the phase field in the nonlinear term leads to continuity and momentum equations for a dissipative incompressible Navier–Stokes fluid. An alternative solution, built using a complex quantum diffusion, is also discussed. The present models may capture dissipative effects in quantum fluids, such as Bose–Einstein condensates, as well as facilitate the formulation of quantum algorithms for classical dissipative fluids.
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After the fundamental works of Erwin Schrödinger, Erwin Madelung came up with a physical interpretation of the wave function, from the point of view of the classical fluids’ dynamics. This chapter is concerned with Madelung’s physical interpretation. The Madelung fluid is one case illustrating how “the forces detemine the velocities”, however at a different level of statistics. The “complex phase” of the wave function is the mark of the solution of nonstationary equation. However, his justification for the existence of the essentially complex wave function can be recognized only as anecdotal. The nonstationary Schrödinger equation admits, besides the classical Galilei group proper, an extra set of symmetries that can be taken in a form involving just one space dimension and time. The Maxwellian form of electrodynamics shows that, as long as the time is classically considered i.e. as just a parameter of continuity this concept of local does not require any further consideration beyond in a given space position.
The mass and momentum transfer phenomena in a compressible fluid represented by the Navier–Stokes equations are shown to convert into the Schrödinger equation for quantum mechanics. The complete Navier–Stokes equations render into an extended generalized version of Schrödinger equation. These results complement the Madelung’s (Zeitschrift für Physik 40 (3–4), pp. 322–326, 1926–1927) derivations that show how Schrödinger’s equation in quantum mechanics can be converted into the Euler equations for irrotational compressible flow. The theoretical results presented here join the classical Madelung paper to suggest the possibility that quantum effects at sub-atomic levels deal with a compressible fluid susceptible to wave propagation, rather than a particle. The link between such a fluid and the “quantum particle” is under current investigation.