Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2009-07-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
PhD thesis; 144 pages
Scientific paper
We study selected aspects of quantum gravity phenomenology inspired by the gravitational analogy in Bose--Einstein condensates (BECs). We first review the basic ideas and formalism of analogue gravity in BECs, with particular emphasis on the possibility of simulating black holes. The non-relativistic, 'superluminal' modifications of the dispersion relation in a BEC beyond the hydrodynamic limit make it a particularly interesting model for many scenarios of quantum gravity phenomenology which consider a possible violation of local Lorentz invariance at high energies. In particular, these modifications allow the study of kinematical corrections that such quantum gravity scenarios could impose on general relativity. A simple (1+1)-dimensional acoustic black hole configuration in a BEC is presented, and its dynamical stability and quasinormal mode spectrum are studied. Then, an analysis is performed of the Hawking radiation for a collapsing geometry in which a black hole is created. It is seen that the superluminality of the dispersion relation leads to a frequency-dependence of the horizon, which can cause strong qualitative and quantitative modifications with respect to the standard (Lorentz-invariant) Hawking spectrum. We end with some considerations related to the possibility of constructing a serious toy model for Planck-scale gravity understood as an emergent phenomenon, based on the condensed matter analogy. In particular, we discuss the problem of diffeomorphism invariance in such a seemingly background-dependent approach and indicate some possible ideas for how to recover the Einstein equations in the adequate limit.
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