The Heisenberg dynamics of the energy, momentum, and particle densities for fermions with short-range pair interactions is shown to converge to the compressible Euler equations in the hydrodynamic limit. The pressure function is given by the standard formula from quantum statistical mechanics with the two-body potential under consideration. Our derivation is based on a quantum version of the entropy method and a suitable quantum virial theorem. No intermediate description, such as a Boltzmann equation or semi-classical approximation, is used in our proof. We require some technical conditions on the dynamics, which can be considered as interesting open problems in their own right.
The Heisenberg dynamics of the energy, momentum, and particle densities for fermions with short-range pair interactions is shown to converge to the compressible Euler equations in the hydrodynamic limit. The pressure function is given by the standard formula from quantum statistical mechanics with the two-body potential under consideration. Our derivation is based on a quantum version of the entropy method and a suitable quantum virial theorem. No intermediate description, such as a Boltzmann equation or semi-classical approximation, is used in our proof. We require some technical conditions on the dynamics, which can be considered as interesting open problems in their own right.
A generalized Euler equation of fluid dynamics is derived for describing many-body states of quantum mechanics. The Eulerian Eq. can be viewed as representing the interaction of two substates, where each substate has its own velocity and pressure fields. These field quantities are given by maps of the wavefunction. For one-body systems, the Eulerian Eq. can model either a fluid or particle description of quantum states. The generalized Euler Eq. is shown to be the gradient of an equation representing the total-energy of the two substates, having two energy fields. This total-energy Eq. is a generalization of the Bernoulli Eq. of fluid dynamics. The total-energy Eq., along with a continuity-equation, is equivalent to the time-dependent Schroedinger Eq. An equation is also derived that is equivalent to the main equation of Bohmian mechanics with additional identifications: The quantum potential of Bohmian mechanics is given as a sum of a kinetic energy and pressure fields. Also, the time derivative of the wavefunction phase is replaced by an energy field. In the formalism, field quantities are identified from their placement in equations of classical mechanics and separately, by definitions that involve the wavefunction and operators of quantum mechanics. This approach yields, unintended, and unknown energy and pressure fields. These fields, however, are shown to satisfy a continuity Eq., an equation that is equivalent to the other equation of Bohmian mechanics. It is also demonstrated that energy conservation holds for both of these energy fields, if the wavefunction is a linear-combination of eigenvectors, where the eigenvectors can be nondegenerate. A detailed investigation is given on the possible behavior, or source, of an electron that has one of the velocity fields. Alternate formulae for this velocity fields are also considered.
We investigate the dynamics of short-range interacting Bose gases with varying degrees of diluteness and interaction strength. By applying a combined mean-field and semiclassical space-time rescaling to the dynamics in both the Gross--Pitaevskii and hard-core limit regimes, we prove that the local one-particle mass, momentum, and energy densities of the many-body system can be quantitatively approximated by solutions to the compressible Euler system in the strong sense, up to the first blow-up time of the fluid description, as the number of particles tends to infinity. In the hard-core limit regime, two novel results are presented. First, we rigorously prove, for the first time, that the internal energy of the fluid takes the form 4πc0ρ2 (equivalently, pressure P=2πc0ρ2), arising solely from the kinetic energy density of the many-body system, rather than the interaction energy density, marking a fundamental difference from the Gross--Pitaevskii and other mean-field regimes. Second, the newly discovered coupling constant c0 is the electrostatic capacity of the interaction potential, corresponding to the scattering length of the hard-core potential. Furthermore, in other limiting regimes, including those beyond the Gross--Pitaevskii regime, we find that the limiting equation is described by an eikonal system, offering a rigorous first-principle justification for using the ``geometric optics approximation'' to describe the dynamics of ultracold Bose gases.
The problem considered here is motivated by a work by B. Nachtergaele and H.T. Yau where the Euler equations of fluid dynamics are derived from manybody quantum mechanics, see [10]. A crucial concept in their work is that of local quantum Gibbs states, which are quantum statistical equilibria with prescribed particle, current, and energy densities at each point of space (here R d , d ≥ 1). They assume that such local Gibbs states exist, and show that if the quantum system is initially in a local Gibbs state, then the system stays, in an appropriate asymptotic limit, in a Gibbs state with particle, current, and energy densities now solutions to the Euler equations. Our main contribution in this work is to prove that such local quantum Gibbs states can be constructed from prescribed densities under mild hypotheses, in both the fermionic and bosonic cases. The problem consists in minimizing the von Neumann entropy in the quantum grand canonical picture under constraints of local particle, current, and energy densities. The main mathematical difficulty is the lack of compactness of the minimizing sequences to pass to the limit in the constraints. The issue is solved by defining auxiliary constrained optimization problems, and by using some monotonicity properties of equilibrium entropies.
By means of a quantum mechanical phase space distribution function
introduced by von Roos, the Schroedinger equation for a non-relativistic
system of N identical particles with scalar interactions is transformed
into a quantum mechanical generalization of the Liouville equation,
thereby formulating the problem in terms of a generalized density in
phase space, a quantity of primary interest in most treatments of the
corresponding classical system (or plasma). This transformation permits
a parallel development of the theories of classical and quantum plasmas
and thus allows the quantum many-body problem to be discussed virtually
completely in classical terms. In particular, a kinetic theory of
quantum plasmas is obtained by deriving the quantum analogue of the BBGKY
hierarchy, and applying thereto approximation techniques similar to those
of Rostocker and Rosenbluth, and Bogoliubov. The point of departure from
similar previous studies based on the Wigner distribution function is that
the proper exchange symmetry can be tractably introduced into the formalism. Attention is first focused on the Hartree and Hartree-Fock approximations,
in which case the quantum BBGKY system reduces to a simple quantum
generalization of the Vlasov equation. This equation is used to study
the response of spatially homogeneous systems to weak external forces,
and the associated problems of plasmon and spin-wave excitations. It is
also used to derive the quantum and exchange corrected equations of
inviscid hydrodynamical transport which are then applied to the problem
of sound propagation in the degenerate electron gas. The second part of the study is concerned with the theory of the
many-electron atom in the Hartree and Hartree-Fock approximations.
The relevant quantum Vlasov equations lead naturally to a statistical
theory of the atom which reduces to the Thomas-Fermi-Amaldi and Thomas Fermi
models (respectively) as ħ → 0. For ħ ≠ 0, the quantum and
exchange corrections to these models are simultaneously generated. The
quantum hydrodynamical theory developed earlier is used to determine
the influence of these corrections on the boundary conditions of the
model, and a theory of the compressed atom is consequently obtained.
Considered in somewhat less detail are the effects of non-zero temperature,
net orbital angular momentum, relativity and correlations, as well as
time dependent processes. The final part deals with the problem of the degenerate electron
gas with a uniform neutralizing background. Going beyond the Hartree-Fock approximation, the pair functions for particles with
parallel and anti-parallel spin are obtained by neglecting three particle
correlations. From these functions, a quantum-mechanical collision
integral is derived which differs from that obtained by Silin
and Guernsey and conjectured by Wyld and Pines in that dynamical exchange
effects are included. Also obtained from the pair function
is an expression for the correlation which reduces in the high
density limit to the result of Gell-Mann and Brueckner. At intermediate
densities an additional term appears in the energy due to the screening
of the exchange interaction by the dielectric properties of the medium.
It is evaluated in the high density limit and found to be -0.151 r_s ln r_s
Ryd/electron in marked disagreement with the corresponding value obtained
by DuBois.
Abstract A formalism of classical mechanics is given for time-dependent many-body states of quantum mechanics, describing both fluid flow and point mass trajectories. The familiar equations of energy, motion, and those of Lagrangian mechanics are obtained. An energy and continuity equation is demonstrated to be equivalent to the real and imaginary parts of the time dependent Schrödinger equation, respectively, where the Schrödinger equation is in density matrix form. For certain stationary states, using Lagrangian mechanics and a Hamiltonian function for quantum mechanics, equations for point-mass trajectories are obtained. For 1-body states and fluid flows, the energy equation and equations of motion are the Bernoulli and Euler equations of fluid mechanics, respectively. Generalizations of the energy and Euler equations are derived to obtain equations that are in the same form as they are in classical mechanics. The fluid flow type is compressible, inviscid, irrotational, with the nonclassical element of local variable mass. Over all space mass is conserved. The variable mass is a necessary condition for the fluid flow to agree with the zero orbital angular momentum for s states of hydrogen. Cross flows are examined, where velocity directions are changed without changing the kinetic energy. For one-electron atoms, the velocity modification gives closed orbits for trajectories, and mass conservation, vortexes, and density stratification for fluid flows. For many body states, under certain conditions, and by hypotheses, Euler equations of orbital-flows are obtained. One-body Schrödinger equations that are a generalization of the Hartree–Fock equations are also obtained. These equations contain a quantum Coulomb’s law, involving the 2-body pair function of reduced density matrix theory that replace the charge densities.