Observer dependence for the phonon content of the sound field living on the effective curved space-time background of a Bose-Einstein condensate

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 9-

  Fedichev, Petr O ^a,b   Fischer, Uwe R ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b KURCHATOV INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

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EID: 2342418581     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.064021     Document Type: Article

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