"Analogue Gravity Phenomenology "is a collection of
contributions that cover a vast range of areas in physics, ranging
from surface wave propagation in fluids to nonlinear optics. The
underlying common aspect of all these topics, and hence the main
focus and perspective from which they are explained here, is the
attempt to develop analogue models for gravitational systems. The
original and main motivation of the field is the verification and
study of Hawking radiation from a horizon: the enabling feature is
the possibility to generate horizons in the laboratory with a wide
range of physical systems that involve a flow of one kind or
another. The years around 2010 and onwards witnessed a sudden surge
of experimental activity in this expanding field of research.
However, building an expertise in analogue gravity requires the
researcher to be equipped with a rather broad range of knowledge
and interests. The aim of this book is to bring the reader up to
date with the latest developments and provide the basic background
required in order to appreciate the goals, difficulties, and
success stories in the field of analogue gravity.
Each chapter of the book treats a different topic explained in
detail by the major experts for each specific discipline. The first
chapters give an overview of black hole spacetimes and Hawking
radiation before moving on to describe the large variety of
analogue spacetimes that have been proposed and are currently under
investigation. This introductory part is then followed by an
in-depth description of what are currently the three most promising
analogue spacetime settings, namely surface waves in flowing
fluids, acoustic oscillations in Bose-Einstein condensates and
electromagnetic waves in nonlinear optics. Both theory and
experimental endeavours are explained in detail. The final chapters
refer to other aspects of analogue gravity beyond the study of
Hawking radiation, such as Lorentz invariance violations and
Brownian motion in curved spacetimes, before concluding with a
return to the origins of the field and a description of the
available observational evidence for horizons in astrophysical
black holes.
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