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Holographic fluids: a thermodynamic road to quantum physics

Fluid Dynamics 2023-05-08 v2 Statistical Mechanics Quantum Physics

Abstract

Quantum mechanics, superfluids, and capillary fluids are closely related: it is thermodynamics that links them. In this paper, the Liu procedure is used to analyze the thermodynamic requirements. A comparison with the traditional method of divergence separation highlights the role of spacetime. It is shown that perfect Korteweg fluids are holographic. The conditions under which a complex field can represent the density and velocity fields of the fluid, and where the complex scalar field becomes a wave function of quantum mechanics, are explored. The bridge between the field and particle representations of a physical system is holography, and the key to holography is the Second Law of thermodynamics.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2301.07177,
  title  = {Holographic fluids: a thermodynamic road to quantum physics},
  author = {Peter Ván},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07177},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

33 pages, no figures, accepted in Physics of Fluids

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