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Wave equation of the scalar field and superfluids

Other Condensed Matter 2013-01-17 v2

Abstract

The new formal analogy between superfluid systems and cosmology, which emerges by taking into account the back-reaction of the vacuum to the quanta of sound waves \cite{noi}, enables us to put forward some common features between these two different areas of physics. We find the condition that allows us to justify a General Relativity (GR) derivation of the hydrodynamical equation for the superfluid in a four-dimensional space whose metric is the Unruh one \cite{Unruh}. Furthermore we show how, in the particular case taken into account, our hydrodynamical equation can be deduced within a four-dimensional space from the wave equation of a massless scalar field.

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@article{arxiv.0910.0794,
  title  = {Wave equation of the scalar field and superfluids},
  author = {A. Naddeo and G. Scelza},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.0794},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Accepted for publication in Modern Physics Letters A