Monday, December 24, 2012

1212.5392 (A. Fabbri)

Observing Hawking radiation in Bose-Einstein condensates via correlation
measurements
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A. Fabbri
Observing quantum particle creation by black holes (Hawking radiation) in the astrophysical context is, in ordinary situations, hopeless. Nevertheless the Hawking effect, which depends only on kinematical properties of wave propagation in the presence of horizons, is present also in nongravitational contexts, for instance in stationary fluids undergoing supersonic flow. We present results on how to observe the analog Hawking radiation in Bose-Einstein condensates by a direct measurement of the density correlations due to the phonon pairs (Hawking quanta-partner) created by the acoustic horizon.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5392

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