Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 63, Number 5, September 2003
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Page(s) | 649 - 652 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2003-00577-6 | |
Published online | 01 November 2003 |
Superfluids in non-Riemannian spacetime background
Departamento de Física Teórica, Instituto de Física, UERJ Rua São Fco. Xavier 524, Rio de Janeiro, RJ Maracanã, CEP:20550-003, Brasil
Corresponding author: garcia@dft.if.uerj.br
Received:
6
May
2003
Accepted:
20
June
2003
The Gross-Pitaevski (GP) equation describing helium superfluids (Bose-Einstein condensate) is extended to non-Riemannian spacetime background where torsion is shown to induce the splitting in the potential energy of the flow. A cylindrically symmetric solution for Minkowski background with constant torsion is obtained, which shows that torsion induces a damping in the superfluid flow velocity. Since the exponential damping is a pure torsion effect, it is suggested that this effect could be used on a superfluid experiment to detect torsion.
PACS: 04.20.-q – Classical general relativity / 04.50.+h – Gravity in more than four dimensions, Kaluza-Klein theory, unified field theories; alternative theories of gravity
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