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Intertial Frame Dragging in an Acoustic Analogue spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-09-03 v3 Other Condensed Matter High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We report an incipient exploration of the Lense-Thirring precession effect in a rotating \textit{acoustic analogue black hole} spacetime. An exact formula is deduced for the precession frequency of a gyroscope due to inertial frame dragging, close to the ergosphere of a `Draining Bathtub' acoustic spacetime which has been studied extensively for acoustic Hawking radiation of phonons and also for `superresonance'. The formula is verified by embedding the two dimensional spatial (acoustic) geometry into a three dimensional one where the similarity with standard Lense-Thirring precession results within a strong gravity framework is well known. Prospects of experimental detection of this new `fixed-metric' effect in acoustic geometries, are briefly discussed.

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@article{arxiv.1510.01436,
  title  = {Intertial Frame Dragging in an Acoustic Analogue spacetime},
  author = {Chandrachur Chakraborty and Oindrila Ganguly and Parthasarathi Majumdar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1510.01436},
  year   = {2018}
}

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LaTex; 6 pages including 1 figure; paper thoroughly revised, accepted for publication in Annalen der Physik

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