A note on the analogy between superfluids and cosmology
arXiv:0910.0790 · doi:10.1142/S0217984910022573
Abstract
A new analogy between superfluid systems and cosmology is here presented, which relies strongly on the following ingredient: the back-reaction of the vacuum to the quanta of sound waves. We show how the presence of thermal phonons, the excitations above the quantum vacuum for $T> 0$, enable us to deduce an hydrodynamical equation formally similar to the one obtained for a perfect fluid in a Universe obeying the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker metric.
Accepted for publication in Modern Physics Letters B