Emergence of Vorticity and Viscous Stress in Finite Scale Quantum Hydrodynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18200v1
• Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:01:15 GMT
• Title: Emergence of Vorticity and Viscous Stress in Finite Scale Quantum Hydrodynamics
• Authors: Christopher Triola,
• Abstract summary: The Madelung equations offer a hydrodynamic description of quantum systems.<n>A coarse-graining procedure is applied to arrive at a macroscopic description of a quantum fluid.
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• Abstract: The Madelung equations offer a hydrodynamic description of quantum systems, from single particles to quantum fluids. In this formulation, the probability density is mapped onto the fluid density and the phase is treated as a scalar potential generating the velocity field. As examples of potential flows, quantum fluids described in this way are inherently irrotational, but quantum vortices may arise at discrete points where the phase is undefined. In this paper, starting from this irrotational description of a quantum fluid, a coarse-graining procedure is applied to arrive at a macroscopic description of the quantum fluid in which the role of velocity is played by a Favre average of the microscopic velocity field, allowing for finite vorticity at any point in the fluid. It is shown that this vorticity obeys a similar equation to the vorticity equation in classical hydrodynamics and includes a vortex-stretching term. This coarse-graining procedure also gives rise to novel stress terms in the fluid equations, which in the appropriate limit appear analogous to artificial viscous stresses from computational fluid dynamics.

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