Artificial Black Holes

by Novello, Mario; Visser, Matt; Volovik, G. E.

• ISBN13: 9789810248079
• ISBN10: 9810248075
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

Physicists are pondering the possibility of simulating black holes in the laboratory by means of various "analog models". These analog models, typically based on condensed matter physics, can be used to help us understand general relativity (Einstein's gravity); conversely, abstract techniques developed in general relativity can sometimes be used to help us understand certain aspects of condensed matter physics. This book contains 13 chapters - written by experts in general relativity, particle physics, and condensed matter physics - that explore various aspects of this two-way traffic.

Table of Contents

Preface
List of contributors
Plan of the book
Introduction and survey	p. 1
Acoustic black holes in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates	p. 35
Slow light	p. 61
Black hole and baby universe in a thin film of [superscript 3]He-A	p. 87
Measurability of dumb hole radiation?	p. 109
Effective gravity and quantum vacuum in superfluids	p. 127
Emergent relativity and the physics of black hole horizons	p. 179
Quasi-gravity in branes	p. 199
Towards a collective treatment of quantum gravitational interactions	p. 213
Role of sonic metric in relativistic superfluid	p. 245
Effective geometry in nonlinear field theory (Electrodynamics and Gravity)	p. 267
Non-inertial quantum mechanical fluctuations	p. 307
Phonons and forces: Momentum versus pseudomomentum	p. 335
Coda	p. 365
Elements of general relativity	p. 383
Index	p. 384
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