HYDRODYNAMICS OF THE VACUUM

DOI10.1142/S0217751X06028527zbMATH Open1101.81104arXivhep-ph/0409292MaRDI QIDQ5484772FDOQ5484772

Authors: P. M. Stevenson 

Publication date: 21 August 2006

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Hydrodynamics is the appropriate "effective theory" for describing any fluid medium at sufficiently long length scales. This paper treats the vacuum as such a medium and derives the corresponding hydrodynamic equations. Unlike a normal medium the vacuum has no linear sound-wave regime; disturbances always "propagate" nonlinearly. For an "empty vacuum" the hydrodynamic equations are familiar ones (shallow water-wave equations) and they describe an experimentally observed phenomenon -- the spreading of a clump of zero-temperature atoms into empty space. The "Higgs vacuum" case is much stranger; pressure and energy density, and hence time and space, exchange roles. The speed of sound is formally infinite, rather than zero as in the empty vacuum. Higher-derivative corrections to the vacuum hydrodynamic equations are also considered. In the empty-vacuum case the corrections are of quantum origin and the post-hydrodynamic description corresponds to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. I conjecture the form of the post-hydrodynamic corrections in the Higgs case. In the 1+1-dimensional case the equations possess remarkable `soliton' solutions and appear to constitute a new exactly integrable system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0409292

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zbMATH Keywords

integrable systemshydrodynamicssolitonsBose-Einstein condensatefluidsHiggs vacuum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Soliton equations (35Q51) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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• Vacuum in Gas and Fluid Dynamics
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