%0 Journal Article
%T Quantum walk hydrodynamics
%A Hatifi, M.
%A Di Molfetta, G.
%A Debbasch, F.
%A Brachet, M.
%J Scientific Reports
%D 2019
%V 9
%I Nature Publishing Group
%@ 2045-2322
%G English
%F Hatifi_etal2019
%O WOS:000459799800138
%O exported from refbase (https://references.ific.uv.es/refbase/show.php?record=3923), last updated on Mon, 11 Mar 2019 08:54:46 +0000
%X A simple Discrete-Time Quantum Walk (DTQW) on the line is revisited and given an hydrodynamic interpretation through a novel relativistic generalization of the Madelung transform. Numerical results show that suitable initial conditions indeed produce hydrodynamical shocks and that the coherence achieved in current experiments is robust enough to simulate quantum hydrodynamical phenomena through DTQWs. An analytical computation of the asymptotic quantum shock structure is presented. The non-relativistic limit is explored in the Supplementary Material (SM).
%R 10.1038/s41598-019-40059-x
%U https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10417
%U https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-40059-x
%P 2989-7pp