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Analogue gravity is based on the simple observation that perturbations propagating in several physical systems can be described by a quantum field theory in a curved spacetime. While phenomena like Hawking radiation are hardly detectable in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-13 Stefano Finazzi

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

Quasiparticles in a Bose-Einstein condensate are sensitive to space-time distortions. Gravitational waves can induce transformations on the state of phonons that can be observed through quantum state discrimination techniques. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Carlos Sabín , Jan Kohlrus , David Edward Bruschi , Ivette Fuentes

We consider superfluid hydrodynamics of two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates. Interpreting the curvature of the macroscopic condensate wavefunction as an effective gravity in such a superfluid universe, we argue for a superfluid…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-01 Tapio Simula

We investigate the deformation of wavefronts of sound waves in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates. In irrational fluid flows Berry et al. identified this kind of deformation as the hydrodynamic analogue of the Aharonov-Bohm effect. We study…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-06 Antonin Coutant , Silke Weinfurtner

The basic idea that gravity can be a long-wavelength effect {\it induced} by the peculiar ground state of an underlying quantum field theory leads to consider the implications of spontaneous symmetry breaking through an elementary scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Consoli

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

Utilizing the recently established connection between Palatini-like gravity and linear Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) models, we have formulated an approach that facilitates the examination of Bose gases. Our primary focus is on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-14 Aneta Wojnar

Proposed experiments for obtaining empirical evidence for a quantum description of gravity in a table-top setting focus on detecting quantum information signatures, such as entanglement or non-Gaussianity production, in gravitationally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Thomas Strasser , Marios Christodoulou , Richard Howl , Caslav Brukner

We consider the possible existence of gravitationally bound general relativistic strings consisting of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) matter which is described, in the Newtonian limit, by the zero temperature time-dependent nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-29 Tiberiu Harko , Matthew J. Lake

We discuss the backreaction force exerted by quantum fluctuations in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates onto the motion of the classical background, derived by an ab initio approach from microscopic physics. It is shown that the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-02 Uwe R. Fischer

We study the vortex dynamics of a quantum degenerate Bose gas through the intensity fluctuations of the interference from particles extracted at two different positions. It is shown numerically with classical field simulations that an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 Michiel Wouters

We use the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to determine the spatial structure of the condensate density of interacting bosons whose energy dispersion epsilon_k has two degenerate minima at finite wave-vectors q. We show that in general the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-01-14 Johannes Hick , Francesca Sauli , Andreas Kreisel , Peter Kopietz

Covariant generalizations of well-known wave equations predict the existence of inertial-gravitational effects for a variety of quantum systems that range from Bose-Einstein condensates to particles in accelerators. Additional effects arise…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Papini

We discuss the quantum mechanical description of a gravitational wave interacting with a cavity electromagnetic field. Quantum fluctuations of the gravitational vacuum induce squeezing in the optical field. Moreover, this squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Thiago Guerreiro

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 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 investigate a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) as a gravitational wave detector, and study its sensitivity by optimizing the properties of the condensate and the measurement duration. We show that detecting kilohertz gravitational waves is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Matthew P. G. Robbins , Niayesh Afshordi , Robert B. Mann

We investigate the sensitivity with which the temperature and the chemical potential characterizing quantum gases can be measured. We calculate the corresponding quantum Fisher information matrices for both fermionic and bosonic gases. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-01 Ugo Marzolino , Daniel Braun

Fluctuations around a Bose-Einstein condensate can be described by means of Bogolubov theory leading to the notion of quasiparticle and antiquasiparticle familiar to non-relativistic condensed matter practitioners. On the other hand, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 C. Barcelo , L. J. Garay , G. Jannes