Quantum Analogues: From Phase Transitions to Black Holes and by William Unruh, Ralf Schützhold

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By William Unruh, Ralf Schützhold

Recently, analogies among laboratory physics (e.g. quantum optics and condensed topic) and gravitational/cosmological phenomena akin to black holes have attracted an expanding curiosity. particularly in view of the large growth of the experimental functions (e.g. relating to superfluids equivalent to liquid Helium or gaseous Bose-Einstein condensates), unique quantum results akin to Hawking radiation may possibly come into achieve for the 1st time.

This ebook features a sequence of chosen lectures dedicated to this new and speedily constructing interdisciplinary box of analysis. a number of analogies connecting (apparently) diversified parts in physics are offered with a view to bridge the space among them and to supply another viewpoint - in order to supply a deeper perception for graduate scholars in addition to senior scientists.

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See chapter by G. , the uniformly accelerated observer experiences the Minkowski vacuum as a thermal bath: For rather general quantum fields (Bisognano-Wichmann theorem, see chapter by B. Kuckert), it can be shown that the quantum state ˆ obtained by restricting the Minkowski vacuum to one of the Rindler wedges ˆ τ corresponds to the ˆ τ /κ}/Z, where H behaves as a mixed state ˆ = exp{−2π H Hamiltonian generating the proper (co-moving wristwatch) time τ measured by the accelerated observer and κ is the analogue to the surface gravity in Sect.

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5]. The second classification method reflects the opposite tendency – the anti Grand Unification (anti-GUT) – when instead of the symmetry breaking the symmetry gradually emerges at low energy. , it is the classification of quantum vacua. The universality classes of quantum vacua are determined by momentum-space topology, which is also responsible for the type of the effective theory, emergent physical laws and symmetries at low energy. Contrary to the GUT scheme, where the symmetry of the vacuum state is primary giving rise to topology, in the anti-GUT scheme the topology in the momentum space is primary while the vacuum symmetry is the emergent phenomenon in the low energy corner.

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