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By using a scale transformation, we obtain hydrodynamic equations in the quasiclassical approximation from the two-band Schrodinger equation.
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Published in Ukrains'kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 723–730, June, 2005.
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Ali, G., Frosali, G. & Manzini, C. On the Drift-Diffusion Model for a Two-Band Quantum Fluid at Zero Temperature. Ukr Math J 57, 859–868 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-005-0234-3
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