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    ARTIFICIAL BLACK HOLES

    edited by Mário Novello (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, Brazil) , Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) , & Grigori Volovik (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland & Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russia)

    Physicists are pondering on the possibility of simulating black holes in the laboratory by means of various “analog models”. These analog models, typically based on condensed matter physics, can be used to help us understand general relativity (Einstein's gravity); conversely, abstract techniques developed in general relativity can sometimes be used to help us understand certain aspects of condensed matter physics. This book contains 13 chapters — written by experts in general relativity, particle physics, and condensed matter physics — that explore various aspects of this two-way traffic.

     
    Contents:
    • Introduction and Survey (M Visser)
    • Acoustic Black Holes in Dilute Bose–Einstein Condensates (L Garay)
    • Slow Light (U Leonhardt)
    • Black Hole and Baby Universe in a Thin Film of 3He-A (T Jacobson & T Koike)
    • Measurability of Dumb Hole Radiation? (W Unruh)
    • Effective Gravity and Quantum Vacuum in Superfluids (G Volovik)
    • Emergent Relativity and the Physics of Black Hole Horizons (G Chapline et al.)
    • Quasi-Gravity in Branes (B Carter)
    • Towards a Collective Treatment of Quantum Gravitational Interactions (R Parentani)
    • Role of Sonic Metric in Relativistic Superfluid (B Carter)
    • Effective Geometry in Nonlinear Field Theory (Electrodynamics and Gravity) (M Novello)
    • Non-Inertial Quantum Mechanical Fluctuations (H Rosu)
    • Phonons and Forces: Momentum versus Pseudomomentum (M Stone)
    • Coda (M Visser)
    • Appendix: Elements of General Relativity (M Visser)
     
    Readership: Particle physicists, condensed matter physicists and general relativists.
     


     
    416pp    Pub. date: Oct 2002  
    ISBN:   978-981-02-4807-9
    981-02-4807-5
       US$112 / £90

     


    416pp    Pub. date: Oct 2002  
    ISBN:   978-981-277-817-8(ebook)
    981-277-817-9(ebook)
       US$146 / £N/A

     


     

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