Quantum Analogues: From Phase Transitions to Black Holes and Cosmology

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Unruh, William G. (Editor), Schützhold, Ralf (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 718
• Subjects: Physics.; Gravitation.; Quantum physics.; Quantum Physics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.

Recently, analogies between laboratory physics (e.g. quantum optics and condensed matter) and gravitational/cosmological phenomena such as black holes have attracted an increasing interest. Especially in view of the tremendous progress of the experimental capabilities (e.g. regarding superfluids suc...

Table of Contents:

• The Analogue Between Rimfall and Black Holes
• Effective Horizons in the Laboratory
• Quantum Phase Transitions from Topology in Momentum Space
• Superfluid 3He as a Model System for Cosmology - Experimental Point of View
• Dynamical Aspects of Analogue Gravity: The Backreaction of Quantum Fluctuations in Dilute Bose-Einstein Condensates
• Analogue Space-time Based on 2-Component Bose-Einstein Condensates
• Links. Relating Different Physical Systems Through the Common QFT Algebraic Structure
• The Classical and Quantum Roots of Pauli’s Spin-statistics Relation
• Black Hole Lasers Revisited
• Cosmic Strings.