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Uncertainty Relations in Hydrodynamics

Version 1 : Received: 29 September 2020 / Approved: 30 September 2020 / Online: 30 September 2020 (14:57:15 CEST)

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Gonçalves de Matos, G.; Kodama, T.; Koide, T. Uncertainty Relations in Hydrodynamics. Water 2020, 12, 3263. Gonçalves de Matos, G.; Kodama, T.; Koide, T. Uncertainty Relations in Hydrodynamics. Water 2020, 12, 3263.

Abstract

Uncertainty relations in hydrodynamics are numerically studied. We first give a review for the formulation of the generalized uncertainty relations in the stochastic variational method (SVM), following the work by two of the present authors [Phys.\ Lett.\ A\textbf{382}, 1472 (2018)]. In this approach, the origin of the finite minimum value of uncertainty is attributed to the non-differentiable (virtual) trajectory of a quantum particle and then both of the Kennard and Robertson-Schr\"{o}dinger inequalities in quantum mechanics are reproduced. The same non-differentiable trajectory is applied to the motion of fluid elements in the Navier-Stokes-Fourier equation or the Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equation. By introducing the standard deviations of position and momentum for fluid elements, the uncertainty relations in hydrodynamics are derived. These are applicable even to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation and then the field-theoretical uncertainty relation is reproduced. We further investigate numerically the derived relations and find that the behaviors of the uncertainty relations for liquid and gas are qualitatively different. This suggests that the uncertainty relations in hydrodynamics are used as a criterion to classify liquid and gas in fluid.

Keywords

Navier-Stokes-Fourier equation; Navier-Stokes-Korteweg equation; uncertainty relations; stochastic calculus; variational principle

Subject

Physical Sciences, Acoustics

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