Analogue Gravity

By C. Barceló, Stefano Liberati, Matt Visser. Living Reviews in Relativity, 2005

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Analogue models of (and for) gravity have a long and distinguished history dating back to the earliest years of general relativity. In this review article we will discuss the history, aims, results, and future prospects for the various analogue models. We start the discussion by presenting a particularly simple example of an analogue model, before exploring the rich history and complex tapestry of models discussed in the literature. The last decade in particular has seen a remarkable and sustained development of analogue gravity ideas, leading to some hundreds of published articles, a workshop, two books, and this review article. Future prospects for the analogue gravity programme also look promising, both on the experimental front (where technology is rapidly advancing) and on the theoretical front (where variants of analogue models can be used as a springboard for radical attacks on the problem of quantum gravity).

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Planck-scale modified dispersion relations and Finsler geometry (2006, background): “This could be related to the fact that the underlying theory, as in the case of analogue models [35], might not have the Lorentz group as fundamental symmetry group, this latter appearing only as an approximate symmetry in the low energy regime, leading to our geometric description of spacetime in t”
Lorentz violation at high energy: Concepts, phenomena, and astrophysical constraints (2005, background): “Aside from general issues of principle, specific hints of Lorentz violation have come from tentative calculations in various approaches to quantum gravity: string theory tensor VEVs [4], cosmologically varying moduli [5], spacetime foam [6], semiclassical spin-network calculations in Loop QG [7,8], ”
Superradiance: Energy Extraction, Black-Hole Bombs and Implications for Astrophysics and Particle Physics (2015, background): “Analogue geometries can be realized outside acoustic setups, and include Bose-Einstein condensates for instance [231].”
Modern Tests of Lorentz Invariance (2005, methodology): “Further information on copyright is given at http://relativity.livingreviews.org/About/copyright.html For permission to reproduce the article please contact livrev@aei.mpg.de.”
Superradiance (2015, background): “[279] for a review).”
Emergent geometry and gravity from matrix models: an introduction (2010, background): “Rather than trying to carry over some formulation of GR into the context of quantized spaces(2), one starts with a model whose fundamental degrees of freedom are different from GR, but which provides a physically viable description of geometry and gravity in some geometrical phase (1)For a review of”
Stationary Metrics and Optical Zermelo-Randers-Finsler Geometry (2008, background): “More recently attempts have been made to construct analogue models of black holes [23, 24] and again similar metrics are used.”
Pseudospectrum and Black Hole Quasinormal Mode Instability (2020, background): “[25]), in analogue gravity [26] or in foundational questions in mathematical relativity (e.”
Minimal Length Scale Scenarios for Quantum Gravity (2012, background): “Another broad class of approaches to quantum gravity that we have so far not mentioned are emergent gravity scenarios, reviewed in [49, 284].”