Published December 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Wave-particle duality through an extended model of the scale relativity theory

  • 1. Department of Physics, University of Athens, Athens 15771 (Greece)
  • 2. Department of Physics I, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Politehnica University of Bucharest, 313 Splaiul Independentei Street, 060042, Bucharest (Romania)
  • 3. Department of Physics, Technical Gh. Asachi University, Iasi, 700050 (Romania)

Description

Considering that the chaotic effect of associated wave packet on the particle itself results in movements on the fractal (continuous and non-differentiable) curves of fractal dimension DF, wave-particle duality through an extension of the scale relativity theory is given. It results through an equation of motion for the complex speed field, that in a fractal fluid, the convection, dissipation and dispersion are reciprocally compensating at any scale (differentiable or non-differentiable). From here, for an irrotational movement, a generalized Schroedinger equation is obtained. The absence of dispersion implies a generalized Navier-Stokes type equation, whereas, for the irrotational movement and the fractal dimension, DF = 2, the usual Schroedinger equation results. The absence of dissipation implies a generalized Korteweg-de Vries type equation. In such conjecture, at the differentiable scale, the duality is achieved through the flowing regimes of the fractal fluid, i.e. the wave character by means of the non-quasi-autonomous flowing regime and the particle character by means of the quasi-autonomous flowing regime. These flowing regimes are separated by '0.7 structure'. At the non-differentiable scale, a fractal potential acts as an energy accumulator and controls through the coherence the duality. The correspondence between the differentiable and non-differentiable scales implies a Cantor space-time. Moreover, the wave-particle duality implies at any scale a fractal.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0031-8949/78/06/065101

Additional details

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physica Scripta (Online)
Journal Volume
78
Journal Issue
6
Journal Page Range
[7 p.]
ISSN
1402-4896

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
41043828
Subject category
S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING;
Descriptors DEI
CHAOS THEORY; DUALITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FRACTALS; NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS; RELATIVITY THEORY; SCHROEDINGER EQUATION; SPACE-TIME; WAVE PACKETS
Descriptors DEC
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WAVE EQUATIONS