Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2011-03-24
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 071101 (2012)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
revtex4, 5 pages, 1 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.071101
The cosmological constant is one of the most pressing problems in modern physics. We address this issue from an emergent gravity standpoint, by using an analogue gravity model. Indeed, the dynamics of the emergent metric in a Bose-Einstein condensate can be described by a Poisson-like equation with a vacuum source term reminiscent of a cosmological constant. The direct computation of this term shows that in emergent gravity scenarios this constant may be naturally much smaller than the naive ground-state energy of the emergent effective field theory. This suggests that a proper computation of the cosmological constant would require a detailed understanding about how Einstein equations emerge from the full microscopic quantum theory. In this light, the cosmological constant appears as a decisive test bench for any quantum or emergent gravity scenario.
Finazzi Stefano
Liberati Stefano
Sindoni Lorenzo
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