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20202026
most citedReal surreal trajectories in pilot-wave hydrodynamics

17 citations · 29 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

physics.flu-dyn2026

Quartic Lyapunov functions for global fluid stability

David Darrow, Elizabeth Carlson, David Goluskin

A fluid system is 'globally stable' if all initial conditions eventually converge to the same state. Since Reynolds (1895) and Orr (1907), the standard way to show global stability…

physics.flu-dyn2026

On the Geometry of Spreading Puddles

David Darrow

We develop a geometric model for the spreading of shallow, viscous puddles of arbitrary shape, building on the recent 'capillary current' model for axisymmetric droplets. In short,…

quant-ph2025

Single-particle Fraunhofer diffraction in a classical pilot-wave model

David Darrow, John W. M. Bush

Walking oil droplets offer a qualitative, classical analog of single-particle diffraction. Making this analog quantitative has proven challenging, leading recent authors to conject…

physics.flu-dyn2025

Extending the Droplet-Wave Statistical Correspondence in Walking Droplet Dynamics

Skyler Mao, David Darrow

Walking droplets -- millimetric oil droplets that self-propel across the surface of a vibrating fluid bath -- exhibit striking emergent statistics that remain only partially unders…

physics.flu-dyn2025★ 1 cited

Capillary currents and viscous droplet spreading

David Darrow, Lucas Warwaruk, John W. M. Bush

We present the results of a combined experimental and theoretical study of the spreading of viscous droplets over rigid substrates. First, we experimentally investigate the wetting…

math.CA2025

A Spectral Theory of Scalar Volterra Equations

David Darrow, George Stepaniants

This work aims to bridge the gap between pure and applied research on scalar, linear Volterra equations by examining five major classes: integral and integro-differential equations…

math.CA2024

On Unitary Monodromy of Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations

David Darrow, Eric Chen, Alex Zitzewitz

Given a second-order, holomorphic, linear differential equation on a punctured Riemann surface, we say that its monodromy group is…

quant-ph2024★ 11 cited

Revisiting de Broglie's Double-Solution Pilot-Wave Theory with a Lorentz-Covariant Lagrangian Framework

David Darrow, John W. M. Bush

The relation between de Broglie's double-solution approach to quantum dynamics and the hydrodynamic pilot-wave system has motivated a number of recent revisitations and extensions…

quant-ph2024

Convergence to Bohmian mechanics in a de Broglie-like pilot-wave system

David Darrow

Bohmian mechanics supplements the quantum wavefunction with deterministic particle trajectories, offering an alternate, dynamical language for quantum theory. However, the Bohmian…

math.NA2024

Detecting eigenvectors of an operator that are near a specified subspace

David Darrow, Jeffrey S. Ovall

In modeling quantum systems or wave phenomena, one is often interested in identifying eigenstates that approximately carry a specified property; scattering states approximately ali…

math.NA2022

A Quasi-Optimal Spectral Solver for the Heat and Poisson Equations in a Closed Cylinder

David Darrow

We develop a spectral method to solve the heat equation in a closed cylinder, achieving a quasi-optimal complexity and high-order, spectral accuracy. The alg…

quant-ph2022★ 17 cited

Real surreal trajectories in pilot-wave hydrodynamics

Valeri Frumkin, David Darrow, Ward Struyve +1

In certain instances, the particle paths predicted by Bohmian mechanics are thought to be at odds with classical intuition. A striking illustration arises in the interference exper…

math.SG2021

Caustics of Lagrangian homotopy spheres with stably trivial Gauss map

Daniel Alvarez-Gavela, David Darrow

For each positive integer , we give a geometric description of the stably trivial elements of the group . In particular, we show that all such elements admit repres…

math.PR2020

Scaling Limits of Fluctuations of Extended-Source Internal DLA

David Darrow

In a previous work, we showed that the 2D, extended-source internal DLA (IDLA) of Levine and Peres is -close to its scaling limit, if is the lattice size. In this pape…

math.PR2020

A Convergence Rate for Extended-Source Internal DLA in the Plane

David Darrow

Internal DLA (IDLA) is an internal aggregation model in which particles perform random walks from the origin, in turn, and stop upon reaching an unoccupied site. Levine and Peres s…