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Selected Publications

• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, TEDFORD, EDMUND W., PENRICE, MATTHEW C.J., UNRUH, WILLIAM G. and LAWRENCE, GREGORY A., 2013. Classical aspects of Hawking radiation verified in analogue gravity experiment Lect.Notes Phys.. 870, 167-180
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, DE LAS CUEVAS, GEMMA, MARTIN-DELGADO, MIGUEL ANGEL and BRIEGEL, HANS J., 2014. Reducing Spacetime to Binary Information Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 47, 9
• WEINFURTNER, S., TEDFORD, E.W., PENRICE, M.C.J., UNRUH, W.G. and LAWRENCE, G.A., 2011. Measurement of stimulated Hawking emission in an analogue system Physical Review Letters. 106(2), 021302
• SOTIRIOU, T.P., VISSER, M. and WEINFURTNER, S., 2011. Spectral dimension as a probe of the ultraviolet continuum regime of causal dynamical triangulations Physical Review Letters. 107(13), 131303

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• FINKE, ANDREAS, JAIN, PIYUSH and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2016. On the observation of nonclassical excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates New Journal of Physics. 18, (In Press.)
• CARDOSO, VITOR, COUTANT, ANTONIN, RICHARTZ, MAURICIO and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2016. Rotational superradiance in fluid laboratories Phys. Rev. Lett.. 117, 271101
• COUTANT, ANTONIN and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2016. The imprint of the Hawking effect in subcritical flows Phys. Rev. D. 94, 064026
• GLASER, LISA, SOTIRIOU, THOMAS P. and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2016. Extrinsic curvature in 2-dimensional Causal Dynamical Triangulation Accepted for publication in Physical Review D. (In Press.)
• RICHARTZ, MAUR'ICIO, PRAIN, ANGUS, LIBERATI, STEFANO and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2015. Rotating black holes in a draining bathtub: Superradiant scattering of gravity waves Phys. Rev. D. 91, 124018
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, DE LAS CUEVAS, GEMMA, MARTIN-DELGADO, MIGUEL ANGEL and BRIEGEL, HANS J., 2014. Reducing Spacetime to Binary Information Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. 47, 9
• RICHARTZ, MAURICIO, PRAIN, ANGUS, WEINFURTNER, SILKE and LIBERATI, STEFANO, 2013. Superradiant scattering of dispersive fields Class.Quant.Grav.. 30, 085009
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, TEDFORD, EDMUND W., PENRICE, MATTHEW C.J., UNRUH, WILLIAM G. and LAWRENCE, GREGORY A., 2013. Classical aspects of Hawking radiation verified in analogue gravity experiment Lect.Notes Phys.. 870, 167-180
• BRUSCHI, DAVID EDWARD, FRIIS, NICOLAI, FUENTES, IVETTE and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2013. On the robustness of entanglement in analogue gravity systems New Journal of Physics. 15, 11
• SOTIRIOU, T.P., VISSER, M. and WEINFURTNER, S., 2011. Spectral dimension as a probe of the ultraviolet continuum regime of causal dynamical triangulations Physical Review Letters. 107(13), 131303
• WEINFURTNER, S., TEDFORD, E.W., PENRICE, M.C.J., UNRUH, W.G. and LAWRENCE, G.A., 2011. Measurement of stimulated Hawking emission in an analogue system Physical Review Letters. 106(2), 021302
• SOTIRIOU, THOMAS P., VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2011. Lower-dimensional Horava-Lifshitz gravity Phys.Rev.. D83, 124021
• SOTIRIOU, THOMAS P., VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2011. Comment on: Detecting Vanishing Dimensions Via Primordial Gravitational Wave Astronomy Phys.Rev.Lett.. 107, 169001
• SOTIRIOU, T.P., VISSER, M. and WEINFURTNER, S., 2011. From dispersion relations to spectral dimension -- and back again Physical Review D. 84(10), 104018
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, SOTIRIOU, THOMAS P. and VISSER, MATT, 2010. Projectable Horava-Lifshitz gravity in a nutshell J.Phys.Conf.Ser.. 222, 012054
• WHITE, ANGELA, WEINFURTNER, SILKE and VISSER, MATT, 2010. Signature change events: A Challenge for quantum gravity? Class.Quant.Grav.. 27, 045007
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, SOTIRIOU, THOMAS P. and VISSER, MATT, 2010. Projectable Horava-Lifshitz gravity in a nutshell J.Phys.Conf.Ser.. 222, 012054
• SOTIRIOU, T.P., VISSER, M. and WEINFURTNER, S., 2009. Quantum gravity without Lorentz invariance Journal of High Energy Physics. 2009(10), 033
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, JAIN, PIYUSH, VISSER, MATT and GARDINER, C.W., 2009. Cosmological particle production in emergent rainbow spacetimes Class.Quant.Grav.. 26, 065012
• SOTIRIOU, T.P., VISSER, M. and WEINFURTNER, S., 2009. Phenomenologically viable Lorentz-violating quantum gravity Physical Review Letters. 102(25), 251601
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, WHITE, ANGELA and VISSER, MATT, 2009. Signature-change events in emergent spacetimes with anisotropic scaling J.Phys.Conf.Ser.. 189, 012046
• RICHARTZ, M., WEINFURTNER, S., PENNER, A.J. and UNRUH, W.G., 2009. Generalized superradiant scattering Physical Review D. 80(12), 124016
• AMBROSETTI, NICOLA, CHARBONNEAU, JAMES and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2008. The Fluid/gravity correspondence: Lectures notes from the 2008 Summer School on Particles, Fields, and Strings
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, LIBERATI, STEFANO and VISSER, MATT, 2007. Analogue spacetime based on 2-component Bose-Einstein condensates Lect.Notes Phys.. 718, 115-163
• BOONSERM, PETARPA, VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2007. Solution generating theorems for the TOV equation Phys.Rev.. D76, 044024
• BOONSERM, PETARPA, VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2007. Solution generating theorems for perfect fluid spheres J.Phys.Conf.Ser.. 68, 012055
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, WHITE, ANGELA and VISSER, MATT, 2007. Trans-Planckian physics and signature change events in Bose gas hydrodynamics Phys.Rev.. D76, 124008
• JAIN, PIYUSH, WEINFURTNER, SILKE, VISSER, MATT and GARDINER, C.W., 2007. Analogue model of a FRW universe in Bose-Einstein condensates: Application of the classical field method Phys.Rev.. A76, 033616
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE CHRISTINE EDITH, 2007. Emergent spacetimes
• VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2007. Analogue spacetimes: Toy models for ''quantum gravity'' PoS. QG-PH, 042
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, VISSER, MATT, JAIN, PIYUSH and GARDINER, C.W., 2007. On the phenomenon of emergent spacetimes: An instruction guide for experimental cosmology PoS. QG-PH, 044
• LIBERATI, STEFANO, VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2006. Analogue quantum gravity phenomenology from a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate Class.Quant.Grav.. 23, 3129-3154
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, LIBERATI, STEFANO and VISSER, MATT, 2006. Analogue model for quantum gravity phenomenology J.Phys.. A39, 6807-6814
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE, LIBERATI, STEFANO and VISSER, MATT, 2006. Modelling Planck-scale Lorentz violation via analogue models J.Phys.Conf.Ser.. 33, 373-385
• LIBERATI, STEFANO, VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2006. Naturalness in emergent spacetime Phys.Rev.Lett.. 96, 151301
• BOONSERM, PETARPA, VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2006. Solution generating theorems: Perfect fluid spheres and the TOV equation 2285-2287
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE E. CH., 2005. Analog model for an expanding universe Gen.Rel.Grav.. 37, 1549-1554
• VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, S.E. CH., 2005. Vortex geometry for the equatorial slice of the Kerr black hole Class.Quant.Grav.. 22, 2493-2510
• BOONSERM, PETARPA, CATTOEN, CELINE, FABER, TRISTAN, VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2005. Effective refractive index tensor for weak field gravity Class.Quant.Grav.. 22, 1905-1916
• BOONSERM, PETARPA, VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2005. Generating perfect fluid spheres in general relativity Phys.Rev.. D71, 124037
• VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2005. Massive Klein-Gordon equation from a BEC-based analogue spacetime Phys.Rev.. D72, 044020
• WEINFURTNER, SILKE E. CH., 2004. Simulation of gravitational objects in Bose-Einstein condensates
• VISSER, MATT and WEINFURTNER, SILKE, 2004. Massive phonon modes from a BEC-based analog model
• PANEQUE, D., MARTINEZ, M., OSTANKOV, A., JACON, P., LORENZ, E. and OTHERS, 2001. Studies of the optical properties of new hemispherical photomultiplier tubes IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci.. 48, 1215-1219