On some hydrodynamical aspects of quantum mechanics

Details On some hydrodynamical aspects of quantum mechanics On some hydrodynamical aspects of quantum mechanics

2009-02-04

arxiv.org/abs/0902.0691v1

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Mathematical Physics

13 pages

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In this note we first set up an analogy between spin and vorticity of a perfect 2d-fluid flow, based on the Borel-Weil contruction of the irreducible unitary representations of SU(2), and looking at the Madelung-Bohm velocity attached to the ensuing spin wave functions. We also show that, in the framework of finite dimensional geometric quantum mechanics, the Schr\"odinger velocity field on projective Hilbert space is divergence-free (being Killing with respect to the Fubini-Study metric) and fulfils the stationary Euler equation, with pressure proportional to the Hamiltonian uncertainty (squared). We explicitly compute the pressure gradient of this "Schr\"odinger fluid" and determine its critical points. Its vorticity is also calculated and shown to depend on the spacings of the energy levels. These results follow from hydrodynamical properties of Killing vector fields valid in any (finite dimensional) Riemannian manifold, of possible independent interest.

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