The National Science Foundation awarded a $651,511 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to support research investigating hydrodynamic quantum analogs from June 1, 2022 to May 31, 2025. The award will fund the principal investigator's integrated experimental and theoretical investigation of hydrodynamic systems that exhibit quantum-like behaviors, with the goal of delineating classical and quantum phenomena. Experimental work will explore new hydrodynamic analogs related to superradiant photon emission, particle creation and annihilation, and the Aharonov-Bohm effect. Theoretical development will advance a generalized classical pilot-wave framework to model common features between walking droplets and de Broglie's pilot-wave theory. Both components aim to elucidate how non-local quantum effects may arise from local pilot-wave interactions, including the possibility of achieving non-separable states and entanglement classically. The research provides a platform for a rich dynamical system while seeking a mathematical bridge between macro and microscopic wave-particle models.
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