Alexander Oshmyansky | Searcharxiv

arXiv2007

A Proposed Casimir-Like Effect Between Contaminants in Ideal Bose-Einstein Condensates

It is hypothesized that, within Bose-Einstein condensates, contaminants will form a potential that effects the energy state of a condensate. While assuming a system governed by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, contaminants are modelled as boundary conditions for the wave function of the condensate. It is then found that the energy of the system depends directly upon the distance between contaminants. Energy is minimized as two particles either come together or move apart depending on the nature of the condensate. This is due to the presence of induced standing waves in the condensate between two contaminants, similar to the attractive effect caused by standing electromagnetic waves in a vacuum, the Casimir effect. Quantum calculations are also done to determine the expected strength of the "contaminant in condensate" effect.

cond-mat.other↗

arXiv2007

A Proposed Alternative Low Energy Quantum Field Theory of Gravity Based on a Bose-Einstein Condensate Effect

An alternative quantum field theory for gravity is proposed for low energies based on an attractive effect between contaminants in a Bose-Einstein Condensate rather than on particle exchange. In the ``contaminant in condensate effect," contaminants cause a potential in an otherwise uniform condensate, forcing the condensate between two contaminants to a higher energy state. The energy of the system decreases as the contaminants come closer together, causing an attractive force between contaminants. It is proposed that mass-energy may have a similar effect on Einstein's space-time field, and gravity is quantized by the same method by which the contaminant in condensate effect is quantized. The resulting theory is finite and, if a physical condensate is assumed to underly the system, predictive. However, the proposed theory has several flaws at high energies and is thus limited to low energies. Falsifiable predictions are given for the case that the Higgs condensate is assumed to be the condensate underlying gravity.

hep-th↗