Numerical study of a recent black-hole lasing experiment
Year: 2016
Authors: Tettamanti M., Cacciatori SL., Parola A., Carusotto I.
Autors Affiliation: Univ Insubria, Dipartimento Sci & Alta Tecnol, Via Valleggio 11, I-22100 Como, Italy; INFN, Sez Milano, Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milan, Italy; Univ Trento, INO CNR BEC Ctr, I-38123 Povo, Italy; Univ Trento, Dipartimento Fis, I-38123 Povo, Italy.
Abstract: We theoretically analyse a recent experiment reporting the observation of a self-amplifying Hawking radiation in a flowing atomic condensate (STEINHAUER J., Nat. Phys., 10 (2014) 864). We are able to accurately reproduce the experimental observations using a theoretical model based on the numerical solution of a mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii equation that does not include quantum fluctuations of the matter field. In addition to confirming the black-hole lasing mechanism, our results show that the underlying dynamical instability has a classical hydrodynamic origin and is triggered by a seed of deterministic nature, linked to the non-stationary of the process, rather than by thermal or zero-point fluctuations. Copyright (C) EPLA, 2016
Journal/Review: EUROPHYSICS LETTERS
Volume: 114 (6) Pages from: 60011-1 to: 60011-6
More Information: We are grateful to R. Parentani and J. Steinhauer for continuous instructive discussions and a critical reading of the manuscript. MT gratefully thanks R. Parentani for the kind hospitality in Paris. IC’s activity was supported by the ERC through the QGBE grant, by the EU-FET Proactive grant AQuS, Project No. 640800, and by the Autonomous Province of Trento, partially through the project On silicon chip quantum optics for quantum computing and secure communications (SiQuro).KeyWords: ANALOG; GASESDOI: 10.1209/0295-5075/114/60011Citations: 26data from “WEB OF SCIENCE” (of Thomson Reuters) are update at: 2024-11-17References taken from IsiWeb of Knowledge: (subscribers only)Connecting to view paper tab on IsiWeb: Click hereConnecting to view citations from IsiWeb: Click here