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Hydrodynamics of Spinning Particles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

In this note, we first obtain the decomposition of the non-relativistic field velocity into the classical part (i.e., the velocity w=p/m OF the center-of-mass (CM), and the so-called quantum part (i.e., the velocity V of the motion IN the CM frame (namely, the internal spin-motion or Zitterbewegung), these two parts being orthogonal. Our starting point is the Pauli current. Then, by inserting such a composite expression of the velocity into the kinetic energy term of the non-relativistic newtonian lagrangian, we get the appearance of the so-called "quantum potential" (which makes the difference between classical and quantum behaviour) as a pure consequence of the internal motion. Such a result carries further evidence about the possibility that the quantum behaviour of micro-systems be a direct consequence of the fundamental existence of spin.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/9802106,
  title  = {Hydrodynamics of Spinning Particles},
  author = {G. Salesi and E. Recami and H. Hernandez F. and L. C. Kretly},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/9802106},
  year   = {2007}
}

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