Fluid moment hierarchy equations derived from quantum kinetic theory

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2009.11.011MaRDI QIDQ763853zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors D. Kharzeev

Publication date 2 April 2012

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.5116

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Traveling wave solutions (35C07) Combustion (80A25) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

Abstract: A set of quantum hydrodynamic equations are derived from the moments of the electrostatic mean-field Wigner kinetic equation. No assumptions are made on the particular local equilibrium or on the statistical ensemble wave functions. Quantum diffraction effects appear explicitly only in the transport equation for the heat flux triad, which is the third-order moment of the Wigner pseudo-distribution. The general linear dispersion relation is derived, from which a quantum modified Bohm-Gross relation is recovered in the long wave-length limit. Nonlinear, traveling wave solutions are numerically found in the one-dimensional case. The results shed light on the relation between quantum kinetic theory, the Bohm-de Broglie-Madelung eikonal approach, and quantum fluid transport around given equilibrium distribution functions.

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