Artificial black holes / editors, Mario Novello, Matt Visser, Grigori Volovik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Novello, M.

Visser, Matt.

Volovik, G. E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black holes (Astronomy)--Mathematical models.

Black holes (Astronomy).

Space and time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 p.)

Other Title:

Black holes

Place of Publication:

River Edge, NJ : World Scientific, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Physicists are pondering on the possibility of simulating black holes in the laboratory by means of various "analog models". These analog models, typically based on condensed matter physics, can be used to help us understand general relativity (Einstein's gravity); conversely, abstract techniques developed in general relativity can sometimes be used to help us understand certain aspects of condensed matter physics. This book contains 13 chapters - written by experts in general relativity, particle physics, and condensed matter physics - that explore various aspects of this two-way traffic.

Contents:

Preface; List of contributors; Plan of the book; Contents; 1 Introduction and survey; 1.1 The notion of curved space; 1.2 Adding a dimension: curved spacetime; 1.3 Event horizons and ergoregions; 1.4 Physical models; 1.5 Kinematics versus dynamics; 1.6 Wave equation in the acoustic analogy; 1.7 Examples; 1.8 Hawking radiation?; 1.9 Horizon entropy?; 1.10 Summary; 2 Acoustic black holes in dilute Bose-Einstein condensates; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Sonic black holes in condensates; 2.3 Black/white holes in a ring; 2.4 Sink-generated black holes; 2.5 Quasiparticle pair creation; 2.6 Conclusions

3 Slow light3.1 Motivation; 3.2 Light-matter interaction; 3.3 Ordinary media; 3.4 Electromagnetically-Induced Transparency; 3.5 Dark-state dynamics; 3.6 Slow-light pulses; 3.7 Effective field theory; 3.8 Moving media; 3.9 Summary; 4 Black hole and baby universe in a thin film of 3He-A; 4.1 Introduction and motivation; 4.2 Black hole analogues using 3He; 4.3 Effective spacetime and Hawking effect from a moving domain wall texture; 4.4 Black hole formation and evaporation in the thin-film domain-wall model; 4.5 Conclusion; 5 Measurability of dumb hole radiation?; 5.1 Introduction

5.2 Hypersonic flow5.3 Roton creation; 5.4 Vorticity; 5.5 Density changes; 5.6 Slow light; 5.7 Conclusion; 6 Effective gravity and quantum vacuum in superfluids; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Einstein gravity and cosmological constant problem; 6.3 Microscopic 'Theory of Everything' in quantum liquids; 6.4 Weakly interacting Bose gas; 6.5 Quantum liquid; 6.6 Vacuum energy and cosmological constant; 6.7 Effects of discrete number N of particles in the vacuum; 6.8 Conclusion; 7 Emergent relativity and the physics of black hole horizons; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Horizons in Bose fluids

7.3 Horizons in quantum magnets7.4 Quantum criticality; 7.5 Discussion; 8 Quasi-gravity in branes; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Equation of motion of brane worldsheet; 8.3 Perturbed worldsheet configuration; 8.4 Quasi-gravitational metric perturbations; 8.5 Jordan-Brans-Dicke type theories; 8.6 Linearised local scalar tensor field configurations; 8.7 Conclusion; 9 Towards a collective treatment of quantum gravitational interactions; 9.1 Outline; 9.2 Introduction; 9.3 The model; 9.4 The gravitational interactions between 0- and 0+; 9.5 Non-vacuum gravitational effects; 9.6 Modified Green function

9.7 Conclusions9.8 Appendix: The large N limit; 10 Role of sonic metric in relativistic superfiuid; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Single constituent perfect fluid models; 10.3 Single constituent superfiuid models; 10.4 Landau-type two-constituent superfluid models; 11 Effective geometry in nonlinear field theory (Electrodynamics and Gravity); 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Nonlinear electrodynamics; 11.3 Nonlinear dielectric media; 11.4 Moving dielectrics; 11.5 Non-trivial quantum vacua; 11.6 Preliminary synthesis; 11.7 The case of spin 2 (gravity); 11.8 Conclusions

12 Non-inertial quantum mechanical fluctuations

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611929909

9781281929907

1281929905

9789812778178

9812778179