Inverse kinetic theory for quantum hydrodynamic equations

Massimo Tessarotto, Marco Ellero, and Piero Nicolini
Phys. Rev. A 75, 012105 – Published 10 January 2007

Abstract

A remarkable feature of standard quantum mechanics is its analogy with classical fluid dynamics. This has motivated in the past efforts to formulate phase-space techniques based on various statistical models of quantum hydrodynamic equations. In this work an inverse kinetic theory for the Schrödinger equation has been constructed in order to formally describe the standard quantum dynamics by means of a classical dynamical system (to be denoted as phase-space Schrödinger dynamical system). It is shown that the inverse kinetic theory can be (non)uniquely determined under suitable mathematical prescriptions. In particular, when the quantum linear momentum is identified with a suitable linear kinetic momentum, it follows that the fluctuations of the position vector and the kinetic linear momentum satisfy identically the Heisenberg theorem.

  • Received 5 June 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.75.012105

©2007 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Massimo Tessarotto1,2, Marco Ellero3, and Piero Nicolini1,2,4

  • 1Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Trieste, Trieste, Italy
  • 2Consorzio di Magnetofluidodinamica, Trieste, Italy
  • 3Lehstuhl für Aerodynamik, Technische Universität München, München, Germany
  • 4Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

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Vol. 75, Iss. 1 — January 2007

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