“Cosmological” quasiparticle production in harmonically trapped superfluid gases
- 8 March 2004
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 69 (3), 033602
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.69.033602
Abstract
We show that a variety of cosmologically motivated effective quasiparticle space-times can be produced in harmonically trapped superfluid Bose and Fermi gases. We study the analog of cosmological particle production in these effective space-times, induced by trapping potentials and coupling constants possessing an arbitrary time dependence. The WKB probabilities for phonon creation from the superfluid vacuum are calculated, and an experimental procedure to detect quasiparticle production by measuring density-density correlation functions is proposed.Keywords
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