Analog gravity from Bose-Einstein condensates

Details Analog gravity from Bose-Einstein condensates Analog gravity from Bose-Einstein condensates

2000-11-07

arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0011026v1

Class.Quant.Grav. 18 (2001) 1137

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

revtex 4 (beta 4); 15 pages in single-column format

Scientific paper

10.1088/0264-9381/18/6/312

We analyze prospects for the use of Bose-Einstein condensates as condensed-matter systems suitable for generating a generic ``effective metric'', and for mimicking kinematic aspects of general relativity. We extend the analysis due to Garay et al, [gr-qc/0002015, gr-qc/0005131]. Taking a long term view, we ask what the ultimate limits of such a system might be. To this end, we consider a very general version of the nonlinear Schrodinger equation (with a 3-tensor position-dependent mass and arbitrary nonlinearity). Such equations can be used for example in discussing Bose-Einstein condensates in heterogeneous and highly nonlinear systems. We demonstrate that at low momenta linearized excitations of the phase of the condensate wavefunction obey a (3+1)-dimensional d'Alembertian equation coupling to a (3+1)-dimensional Lorentzian-signature ``effective metric'' that is generic, and depends algebraically on the background field. Thus at low momenta this system serves as an analog for the curved spacetime of general relativity. In contrast at high momenta we demonstrate how to use the eikonal approximation to extract a well-controlled Bogoliubov-like dispersion relation, and (perhaps unexpectedly) recover non-relativistic Newtonian physics at high momenta. Bose-Einstein condensates appear to be an extremely promising analog system for probing kinematic aspects of general relativity.

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