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In the present study a particular case of Gross-Pitaevskii or non-linear Schr\"odinger equation is rewritten to a form similar to a hydrodynamic Euler equation using the Madelung transformation. The obtained system of differential equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-15 Imre F. Barna , Mihály A. Pocsai , L. Mátyás

In the 1920's, Madelung noticed that if the complex Schroedinger wavefunction is expressed in polar form, then its modulus squared and the gradient of its phase may be interpreted as the hydrodynamic density and velocity, respectively, of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Peter J. Love , Bruce M. Boghosian

After performing the Madelung transformation, the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation is transformed into a hydrodynamic equation akin to the compressible Euler equations with a certain dissipation. In this short note, we construct…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-03-24 Gonzalo Cao-Labora , Javier Gómez-Serrano , Jia Shi , Gigliola Staffilani

The Madelung transform relates the non-linear Schr\"odinger equation and a compressible Euler equation known as the quantum hydrodynamical system. We prove that the Madelung transform is a momentum map associated with an action of the…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Daniel Fusca

We construct a Madelung fluid model with specific time variable parameters as dissipative quantum fluid and linearize it in terms of Schrodinger equation with time dependent parameters. It allows us to find exact solutions of the nonlinear…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2010-05-28 Sirin A. Buyukasik , Oktay K. Pashaev

We introduce a geometric framework to study Newton's equations on infinite-dimensional configuration spaces of diffeomorphisms and smooth probability densities. It turns out that several important PDEs of hydrodynamical origin can be…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Boris Khesin , Gerard Misiolek , Klas Modin

We study the dynamics of multi-component Bose gas described by the Vector Nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger Equation (VNLS), aka the Vector Gross--Pitaevskii Equation (VGPE) . Through a Madelung transformation, the VNLS can be reduced to coupled…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-24 Swetlana Swarup , Vishal Vasan , Manas Kulkarni

We formulate a smoothed-particle hydrodynamics numerical method, traditionally used for the Euler equations for fluid dynamics in the context of astrophysical simulations, to solve the non-linear Schrodinger equation in the Madelung…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Philip Mocz , Sauro Succi

In this short paper, we show how a quantum nonlocal effect of far-apart wavepackets in the Schrodinger picture of wavefunctions is replaced by a local instability problem when considering the hydrodynamical formulation of quantum mechanics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-12 Yakir Aharonov , Tomer Shushi

Using the Madelung transformation on a generalized scalar Gross-Pitaevski equation, a nonlinear continuum fluid equations are derived for a classical fluid. A unitary quantum lattice algorithm is then determined as a second order discrete…

Using a generalization of the Madelung transformation, we derive the hydrodynamic representation of the Klein-Gordon-Einstein equations in the weak field limit. We consider a complex self-interacting scalar field with an arbitrary potential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-01 Abril Suárez , Pierre-Henri Chavanis

Madelung's hydrodynamical forms of the Schrodinger equation and the Klein-Gordon equation are presented. The physical nature of the quantum potential is explored. It is demonstrated that the geometrical origin of the quantum potential is in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. H. Delphenich

We revisit the analogy suggested by Madelung between a non-relativistic time-dependent quantum particle, to a fluid system which is pseudo-barotropic, irrotational and inviscid. We first discuss the hydrodynamical properties of the Madelung…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-01 Eyal Heifetz , Eliahu Cohen

The Madelung transform is known to relate Schr\"odinger-type equations in quantum mechanics and the Euler equations for barotropic-type fluids. We prove that, more generally, the Madelung transform is a K\"ahler map (i.e. a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Boris Khesin , Gerard Misiolek , Klas Modin

We investigate the effects of given pressure gradients on hydrodynamic flow equations. We obtain results in terms of implicit solutions and also in the framework of an extra-dimensional formalism involving the diffusion/Schrodinger…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Thomas Curtright , David Fairlie

Here we present a transformation that maps the Schrodinger equation of quantum mechanics to the incompressible Euler equations of fluid mechanics. The transformation provides a wave solution and a potential function based on fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-24 Ahmad Zareei

In the paper with the above-noted title, T. C. Wallstrom claims that the description of the particle's motion as a certain "conservative" diffusion is not equivalent to quantum mechanics in spite of the fact that the Madelung "hydrodynamic"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Vel Hushwater

Quantum theory and relativity exhibit several formal analogies with fluid mechanics. This paper extends upon known analogies by showing that under specific assumptions, an Euler-Korteweg vortex model can be cast into equations that are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 D. M. F. Bischoff van Heemskerck

Proceeding from the hydrodynamic approach, we construct exact solutions to nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with special properties. The solutions describe collapse, in finite time, and scattering, over infinite time, of wave packets. They…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Olga S. Rozanova

A new nonlinear Schroedinger equation is obtained explicitly from the fractal Brownian motion of a massive particle with a complex-valued diffusion constant. Real-valued energy (momentum) plane wave and soliton solutions are found in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Carlos Castro , Jorge Mahecha , Boris Rodriguez
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