人造黑洞/ARTIFICIAL BLACK HOLES

分類: 图书,进口原版书,科学与技术 Science & Techology ,
作者: Mario Novello,Matt Visser,G. E. Volovik,Grigori Volovik 著
出 版 社: Pengiun Group (USA)
出版时间: 2002-12-1字数:版次: 1页数: 391印刷时间: 2002/12/01开本:印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9789810248079包装: 精装内容简介
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.
目录
Preface
List of contributors
Plan of the book
1 Introduction and survey
Matt Visser
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
Luis Garay
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 light
Ulf Leonhardt
3.1 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
Ted Jacobson and Tatsuhiko Koike
4.1 Introduction and motivation
4.2 Black hole analogues using 3He
4.3 Effective spacetime from a moving domain wall
4.4 Hawking effect in the thin-film domain-wall model
4.5 Conclusion
5 Measurability of dumb hole radiation?
William Unruh
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Hypersonic flow
5.3 Roton creation
5.4 Vorticity
5.5 Density changes
5.6 Slow light
5.7 Conclusion
6 Effective gravity and quantum vacuum in superfluids
Grigori Volovik
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
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7 Emergent relativity and the physics of black hole horizons
8 Quasi-gravity in branes
9 Towards a collective treatment of quantum gravitational in teractions
10 Role of sonic metric in relativistic superfluid
11 Effective geometry in nonlinear field theory(Electrodynamics and Gravity)
12 Non-inertial quantum mechanical fluctuations
13 Phonons and forces:Momentum versus pseudomomentum
14 Coda
Appendix: Elements of general relativity
Index