English

Energy transport in the Schr\"odinger plate

Classical Physics 2025-12-30 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

In this paper, we introduce "the Schr\"odinger plate." This is an infinite two-dimensional linear micro-polar elastic medium, with out-of-plane degrees of freedom, lying on a linear elastic foundation of a special kind. Any free motion of the plate can be corresponded to a solution of the two-dimensional Schr\"odinger equation for a single particle in the external potential field VV. The specific dependence of the potential VV on the position is taken into account in the properties of the plate elastic foundation. The governing equations of the plate are derived as equations of the two-dimensional constraint Cosserat continuum using the direct approach. The plate dynamics can be described by the classical Germain-Lagrange equation for a plate, but the strain energy is different from the one used in the classical Kirchhoff-Love plate theory. Namely, the Schr\"odinger plate cannot be imagined as a thin elastic body composed of an isotropic linear material. The main property of the Schr\"odinger plate is as follows: the mechanical energy propagates in the plate exactly in the same way as the probability density propagates according to the corresponding Schr\"odinger equation.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2512.22898,
  title  = {Energy transport in the Schr\"odinger plate},
  author = {Serge N. Gavrilov and Anton M. Krivtsov and Ekaterina V. Shishkina},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.22898},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

19 pages