Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
2005-12-22
J.Phys.Conf.Ser. 33 (2006) 373-385
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Talk given at the Fourth Meeting on Constrained Dynamics and Quantum Gravity (QG05), Cala Gonone (Sardinia, Italy) September 1
Scientific paper
Astrophysical tests of Planck-suppressed Lorentz violations had been extensively studied in recent years and very stringent constraints have been obtained within the framework of effective field theory. There are however still some unresolved theoretical issues, in particular regarding the so called "naturalness problem" - which arises when postulating that Planck-suppressed Lorentz violations arise only from operators with mass dimension greater than four in the Lagrangian. In the work presented here we shall try to address this problem by looking at a condensed-matter analogue of the Lorentz violations considered in quantum gravity phenomenology. Specifically, we investigate the class of two-component BECs subject to laser-induced transitions between the two components, and we show that this model is an example for Lorentz invariance violation due to ultraviolet physics. We shall show that such a model can be considered to be an explicit example high-energy Lorentz violations where the ``naturalness problem'' does not arise.
Liberati Stefano
Visser Matt
Weinfurtner Silke
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