Quasiparticle universes in Bose-Einstein condensates
Other Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Abstract
Recent developments in simulating fundamental quantum field theoretical effects in the kinematical context of analogue gravity are reviewed. Specifically, it is argued that a curved space-time generalization of the Unruh-Davies effect -- the Gibbons-Hawking effect in the de Sitter space-time of inflationary cosmological models -- can be implemented and verified in an ultracold gas of bosonic atoms.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0406086,
title = {Quasiparticle universes in Bose-Einstein condensates},
author = {Uwe R. Fischer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0406086},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
23 pages, 2 figures; invited brief review for Modern Physics Letters A, as published