Quantum many-body dynamics in a Lagrangian frame: I. Equations of motion and conservation laws

Abstract

We formulate equations of motion and conservation laws for a quantum many-body system in a co-moving Lagrangian reference frame. It is shown that generalized inertia forces in the co-moving frame are described by Green's deformation tensor $g_{\mu \nu }(\mathbf{\xi },t)$ and a skew-symmetric vorticity tensor ${\tilde{F}}_{\mu \nu }(\mathbf{\xi },t)$, where $\mathbf{\xi }$ in the Lagrangian coordinate. Equations of motion are equivalent to those for a quantum many-body system in a space with time-dependent metric $g_{\mu \nu }(\mathbf{\xi },t)$ in the presence of an effective magnetic field ${\tilde{F}}_{\mu \nu }(\mathbf{\xi },t)$. To illustrate the general formalism we apply it to the proof of the harmonic potential theorem. As another example of application we consider a fast long wavelength dynamics of a Fermi system in the dynamic Hartree approximation. In this case the kinetic equation in the Lagrangian frame can be solved explicitly. This allows us to formulate the description of a Fermi gas in terms of an effective nonlinear elasticity theory. We also discuss a relation of our results to time-dependent density functional theory.

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