The derivation and quasinormal mode spectrum of acoustic anti-de sitter black hole analogues

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dc.contributor.authorBabb, James Patrick
dc.contributor.supervisorKovtun, Pavel
dc.date.accessioned2013-03-08T21:19:44Z
dc.date.available2013-03-08T21:19:44Z
dc.date.copyright2013en_US
dc.date.issued2013-03-08
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomy
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science M.Sc.en_US
dc.description.abstractDumb holes (also known as acoustic black holes) are fluid flows which include an "acoustic horizon:" a surface, analogous to a gravitational horizon, beyond which sound may pass but never classically return. Soundwaves in these flows will therefore experience "effective geometries" which are identical to black hole spacetimes up to a conformal factor. By adjusting the parameters of the fluid flow, it is possible to create an effective geometry which is conformal to the Anti-de Sitter black hole spacetime- a geometry which has recieved a great deal of attention in recent years due to its conjectured holographic duality to Conformal Field Theories. While we would not expect an acoustic analogue of the AdS-CFT correspondence to exist, this dumb hole provides a means, at least in principle, of experimentally testing the theoretical properties of the AdS spacetime. In particular, I have calculated the quasinormal mode spectrum of this acoustic geometry.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0986en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0753en_US
dc.description.proquestemailjpbabb@yahoo.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/4484
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectQuasinormal Modesen_US
dc.subjectWave Equationsen_US
dc.subjectAcoustic Black Holesen_US
dc.subjectAcousticsen_US
dc.subjectAdS-CFTen_US
dc.subjectanalogue gravityen_US
dc.subjectAnti-de Sitteren_US
dc.subjectSounden_US
dc.subjectString Theoryen_US
dc.subjectFluid Mechanicsen_US
dc.subjectFrobenius Methoden_US
dc.subjectGeneral Relativityen_US
dc.subjectHawking Radiationen_US
dc.subjectHill Determinanten_US
dc.subjectEinstein field equationsen_US
dc.subjectcurvatureen_US
dc.subjectConformal Spacetimesen_US
dc.subjectBlack Holeen_US
dc.subjectPerturbation Theoryen_US
dc.titleThe derivation and quasinormal mode spectrum of acoustic anti-de sitter black hole analoguesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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