Survey of Analogue Spacetimes

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-00266-8_2zbMATH Open1328.83018arXiv1206.2397OpenAlexW3102056077MaRDI QIDQ5261906FDOQ5261906

Matt Visser

Publication date: 8 July 2015

Published in: Lecture Notes in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Analogue spacetimes, (and more boldly, analogue models both of and for gravity), have attracted significant and increasing attention over the last decade and a half. Perhaps the most straightforward physical example, which serves as a template for most of the others, is Bill Unruh's model for a dumb hole, (mute black hole, acoustic black hole), wherein sound is dragged along by a moving fluid --- and can even be trapped behind an acoustic horizon. This and related analogue models for curved spacetimes are useful in many ways: Analogue spacetimes provide general relativists with extremely concrete physical models to help focus their thinking, and conversely the techniques of curved spacetime can sometimes help improve our understanding of condensed matter and/or optical systems by providing an unexpected and countervailing viewpoint. In this introductory chapter, I shall provide a few simple examples of analogue spacetimes as general background for the rest of the contributions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1206.2397

zbMATH Keywords

black holeexcitationacoustic black holeanalogue spacetimesdiffential geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Black holes (83C57) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05)

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