Analogue models of and for gravity

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dc.creatorVisser, Matt
dc.creatorBarcelo, Carlos
dc.creatorLiberati, Stefano
dc.date2001-11-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:26:29Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:26:29Z
dc.descriptionCondensed matter systems, such as acoustics in flowing fluids, light in moving dielectrics, or quasiparticles in a moving superfluid, can be used to mimic aspects of general relativity. More precisely these systems (and others) provide experimentally accessible models of curved-space quantum field theory. As such they mimic kinematic aspects of general relativity, though typically they do not mimic the *dynamics*. Although these analogue models are thereby limited in their ability to duplicate all the effects of Einstein gravity they nevertheless are extremely important -- they provide black hole analogues (some of which have already been seen experimentally) and lead to tests of basic principles of curved-space quantum field theory. Currently these tests are still in the realm of *gedanken-experiments*, but there are plausible candidate models that should lead to laboratory experiments in the not too distant future.
dc.descriptionPlain LaTeX2E; 20 page mini-survey; one eps figure. Plenary talk at the Australasian Relativity Conference (Perth, July 2001). Proceedings to appear in ``General Relativity and Gravitation''
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0111111
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0111111
dc.identifierGen.Rel.Grav. 34 (2002) 1719-1734
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/34063
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.titleAnalogue models of and for gravity
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