Hydrodynamic Quantum Mechanics: Wave Function as Superfluid Phase

HRHarrison, Robert William
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Abstract

This paper presents a hydrodynamic interpretation of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics within the Hydrodynamic Quantum Gravity (HQG) programme. The central result is that the standard Schrödinger formalism can be rewritten exactly as a continuity equation for a density field plus an Euler-like momentum equation containing an additional dispersive term (“quantum potential”). In this reading, quantum behaviour is modelled as effective fluid dynamics of a coherent phase field. Interpretation note: “superfluid” language is used here as an effective mathematical description of vacuum behaviour. The claim is not that space is a material fluid or that there exists a preferred rest frame. Rather, the point is that…

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Keywords
  • Quantum field theory
  • Phase space
  • Quantum
  • Formalism (music)
  • Wave function
  • Rotation formalisms in three dimensions
  • Lorentz covariance
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