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The quantum hydrodynamic-like equations for two real variables (i.e., the phase and the amplitude of the wave function) of the relativistic Klein-Gordon equation are derived in the present paper. The paper also shows that in classical limit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-22 Piero Chiarelli

We derive the quantum potential directly from the material derivative of the osmotic velocity and formulate a two-fluid model that reproduces the Madelung equations. Interactions between the fluids are included but remain secondary. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Lachezar Simeonov

An analogy between non-relativistic quantum mechanics in the Madelung formulation and quantum geometrodynamics in the case of the maximally symmetric space is drawn. The equations equivalent to the continuity equation and the hydrodynamic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-29 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

The geometrical formulation of the quantum Hamilton-Jacobi theory shows that the quantum potential is never trivial, so that it plays the r\^ole of intrinsic energy. Such a key property selects the Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) quantum potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-01 Alon E. Faraggi , Marco Matone

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

Despite its age, quantum theory still suffers from serious conceptual difficulties. To create clarity, mathematical physicists have been attempting to formulate quantum theory geometrically and to find a rigorous method of quantization, but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-28 Maik Reddiger

We consider a new geometric approach to Madelung's quantum hydrodynamics (QHD) based on the theory of gauge connections. In particular, our treatment comprises a constant curvature thereby endowing QHD with intrinsic non-zero holonomy. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Michael S. Foskett , Cesare Tronci

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

The relativistic hydrodynamical equations are being examined with the aim of extracting the quantum-mechanical equations (the relativistic Klein-Gordon equation and the Schr\"odinger equation in the non-relativistic limit). In both cases it…

General Physics · Physics 2015-10-12 Valeriy I. Sbitnev

Assuming that the free energy of a gas depends non-locally on the logarithm of its mass density, the body force in the resulting equation of motion consists of the sum of density gradient terms. Truncating this series after the second term,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Roberto Mauri

We establish a quantum dynamics framework for curved submanifolds embedded in higher-dimensional spaces. Through rigorous dimensional reduction, we derive the first complete Schr\"{o}dinger and Klein-Gordon equations incorporating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Li Wang , Run Cheng , Jun Wang

We revisit the Schwarzschild singularity in a semiclassical setting where the background geometry is classical and quantum effects enter through Bohmian (quantal) trajectories associated with a Klein Gordon wave packet. Using the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Vishnulal Cheriyodathillathu , Tanmay Patil , Saurya Das , Soumen Basak

It has recently been shown that relativistic quantum theory leads to a local interpretation of quantum mechanics wherein the universal wavefunction in configuration space is entirely replaced with an ensemble of local fluid equations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-27 Mordecai Waegell

We consider a Finslerian type geometrization of the non-relativistic quantum mechanics in its hydrodynamical (Madelung) formulation, by also taking into account the effects of the presence of the electromagnetic fields on the particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Shi-Dong Liang , Sorin V. Sabau , Tiberiu Harko

When a quantum particle moves in a curved space, a geometric potential can arise. In spite of a long history of extensive theoretical studies, to experimentally observe the geometric potential remains to be a challenge. What are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-23 Li-Li Ye , Chen-Di Han , Liang Huang , Ying-Cheng Lai

Nonrelativistic quantum mechanics is commonly formulated in terms of wavefunctions (probability amplitudes) obeying the static and the time-dependent Schroedinger equations (SE). Despite the success of this representation of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 Ivano Tavernelli

The exploration of the Riemannian structure of the Hilbert space has led to the concept of quantum geometry, comprising geometric quantities exemplified by Berry curvature and quantum metric. While this framework has profoundly advanced the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Xiao-Bin Qiang , Tianyu Liu , Hai-Zhou Lu , X. C. Xie

We investigate superfluidity, and the mechanism for creation of quantized vortices, in the relativistic regime. The general framework is a nonlinear Klein-Gordon equation in curved spacetime for a complex scalar field, whose phase dynamics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-24 Chi Xiong , Michael R. R. Good , Yulong Guo , Xiaopei Liu , Kerson Huang

We present analytic self-similar solutions for the one, two and three dimensional Madelung hydrodynamical equation for a free particle. There is a direct connection between the zeros of the Madelung fluid density and the magnitude of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Imre F. Barna , Mihály A. Pocsai , László Mátyás

Quantum mechanics is sensitive to the geometry of the underlying space. Here, we present a framework for quantum scattering of a non-relativistic particle confined to a two-dimensional space. When the motion manifold hosts localized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-19 Lars Meschede , Benjamin Schwager , Dominik Schulz , Jamal Berakdar
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