Analogue gravity in condensed matter systems and the Unruh effect

• Grant number: 17/02368-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2017
• End date: December 31, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: George Emanuel Avraam Matsas
• Grantee: Guilherme Barbosa Barros
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 13/09357-9 - Physics and geometry of spacetime, AP.TEM

Abstract

Semiclassical gravity has unveiled a number of quite surprising effects among which are the Hawking and Unruh ones. In this project, we intend to begin a comprehensive search for a condensed-matter analogue of the Unruh effect. (AU)