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We analyze prospects for the use of Bose-Einstein condensates as condensed-matter systems suitable for generating a generic ``effective metric'', and for mimicking kinematic aspects of general relativity. We extend the analysis due to Garay…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Carlos Barcelo , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser

We consider a gravitational plane wave passing through a galactic dark matter halo composed of weakly self-interacting, self-gravitating, Bose-Einstein condensate of ultralight particles. Treating the gravitational wave as a time dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-18 Levent Akant , İ. Çağrı İşeri , İbrahim Semiz

The recent report on the realization of a Bose-Einstein condensate of G-wave molecule made up of bound pairs of Cesium bosons is a surprise. These molecules are created at the G-wave resonance at 19.87G, where the severe three-body loss…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-01-15 Tin-Lun Ho

In the present work we consider the role that metric fluctuations could have upon the properties of a Bose--Einstein condensate. In particular we consider the Bogoliubov space associated to it and show that there are, at least, two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 J. I. Rivas , A. Camacho , E. Goeklue

It is thought that in a quantum fluid sound generation is the ultimate sink of turbulent kinetic energy in the absence of any other dissipation mechanism near absolute zero. We show that a suitably trapped Bose-Einstein condensate provides…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 C. F. Barenghi , N. G. Parker , N. P. Proukakis , C. S. Adams

A description of the dynamical response of uniformly trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) to oscillating external gravitational fields is developed, with the inclusion of damping. Two different effects that can lead to the creation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Dennis Rätzel , Richard Howl , Joel Lindkvist , Ivette Fuentes

We present an analogue spacetime model that reproduces the salient features of the most common ansatz for quantum gravity phenomenology. We do this by investigating a system of two coupled Bose-Einstein condensates. This system can be tuned…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser , Silke Weinfurtner

We investigate the collective excitations of an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in the self-binding regime produced by electromagnetically induced ``gravity'' (1/r attraction). Analytical expressions for the frequencies of the monopole and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Giovanazzi , G. Kurizki , I. E. Mazets , S. Stringari

Phonons in Bose-Einstein condensates propagate as massless scalar particles on top of an emergent acoustic metric. This hydrodynamics/gravity analogy can be exploited to realize acoustic black holes, featuring an event horizon that traps…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-04 Chiara Coviello , Maria Luisa Chiofalo , Dario Grasso , Stefano Liberati , Massimo Mannarelli , Silvia Trabucco

The detection of gravitational waves in 2015 ushered in a new era of gravitational wave astronomy capable of probing into the strong field dynamics of black holes and neutron stars. It has opened up an exciting new window for laboratory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-14 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Hing-Tong Cho , Bei-Lok Hu

We propose a precise test of two fundamental gravitational constants using a detector concept that exploits the dynamics of quantum phononic excitations in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), operable at the scale of tabletop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Hector A. Fernandez-Melendez , Alexander Belyaev , Vahe Gurzadyan , Ivette Fuentes

The behavior of a Bose--Einstein condensate in a homogeneous gravitational field is analyzed. We consider two different trapping potentials. Firstly, the gas is inside a finite container. The effects of the finiteness of the height of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-03-15 J. I. Rivas Sánchez , A. Camacho

Gravity gradiometry with Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) has reached unprecedented precisions. The basis of this technique is the measurement of differential forces by interference of single-atom wave functions. In this article, we propose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 Tupac Bravo , Dennis Rätzel , Ivette Fuentes

We introduce the study of dynamical quantum noise in Bose-Einstein condensates through numerical simulation of stochastic partial differential equations obtained using phase space representations. We derive evolution equations for a single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 M. J. Steel , M. K. Olsen , L. I. Plimak , P. D. Drummond , S. M. Tan , M. J. Collett , D. F. Walls , R. Graham

We analyze in detail a previous proposal by Dvali and G\'omez that black holes could be treated as consisting of a Bose-Einstein condensate of gravitons. In order to do so we extend the Einstein-Hilbert action with a chemical potential-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-22 Jorge Alfaro , Domènec Espriu , Luciano Gabbanelli

An alternative quantum field theory for gravity is proposed for low energies based on an attractive effect between contaminants in a Bose-Einstein Condensate rather than on particle exchange. In the ``contaminant in condensate effect,"…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Oshmyansky

A vortex in a quasi two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate is subject to the Magnus force and can be effectively described as a planar particle in a uniform magnetic field. Quantization of this effective particle leads to the lowest…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-24 Jacek Dziarmaga , Jakub Meisner

Generalizing the one-component case, we demonstrate that the propagation of sound waves in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates can also be described in terms of effective sonic geometries under appropriate conditions. In comparison with…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Uwe R. Fischer , Ralf Schützhold

Dynamical properties of the Bose-Einstein condensate in double-well potential subject to Gaussian white noise are investigated by numerically solving the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The Gaussian white noise is used to describe…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 Hanlei Zheng , Yajiang Hao , Qiang Gu

An interesting proposal for detecting gravitational waves involves quantum metrology of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs). We consider a forced modulation of the BEC trap, whose frequency matches that of an incoming continuous gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-24 Matthew P. G. Robbins , Niayesh Afshordi , Alan O. Jamison , Robert B. Mann