We show that Bose-Einstein condensates in a honeycomb optical lattice are described by a nonlinear Dirac equation in the long wavelength, mean field limit. Unlike nonlinear Dirac equations posited by particle theorists, which are designed to preserve the principle of relativity, i.e., Poincaré covariance, the nonlinear Dirac equation for Bose-Einstein condensates breaks this symmetry. We presen...

We construct exact solutions of the Einstein-Dirac equation, which couples the gravitational field with an eigenspinor of the Dirac operator via the energymomentum tensor. For this purpose we introduce a new field equation generalizing the notion of Killing spinors. The solutions of this spinor field equation are called weak Killing spinors (WK-spinors). They are special solutions of the Einste...

We show how classical spacetime emerges from quantum gravity through the study of a quantum FRW cosmological model coupled to a free massive scalar field using a new asymptotic expansion method of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. It is shown that the coherent states of the nonadiabatic basis of a particular generalized invariant give rise to the quantum back reaction of matter field proportional to...

We show that solutions of the Bach equation exist which are not conformal Einstein spaces. In connection with fourth order gravitational field equations, cf. e.g. [1, 2] where the breaking of conformal invariance was discussed, the original Bach equation, Bij = 0 , (1) enjoys current interest. Eq. (1) stems from a Lagrangian L = 1 2 √ −gCijklC , and variation gives, cf. Bach [3], 1 √−g δL/δg ij...

Using the coherent-state representation we show that the classical Einstein equation for the FRW cosmological model with a general minimal scalar field can be derived from the semiclassical quantum Einstein equation. E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: [email protected] 1 Canonical quantum gravity has been initiated by DeWitt in the seminal paper [1]. As ...

We apply Christodoulou’s framework, developed to study the Einstein-scalar field equations in spherical symmetry, to the linear wave equation in de Sitter spacetime, as a first step towards the Einstein-scalar field equations with positive cosmological constant. We obtain an integro-differential evolution equation which we solve by taking initial data on a null cone. As a corollary we obtain el...