Testing Hawking particle creation by black holes through correlation measurements

Year: 2010

Authors: Balbinot R., Carusotto I., Fabbri A., Recati A.

Autors Affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitą di Bologna and INFN sezione di Bologna, Via Irnerio 46, 40126 Bologna, Italy;
INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitą di Trento, I-38123 Povo, Italy;
Departamento de Fisica Teorica and IFIC, Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, C. Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, Spain

Abstract: Hawking’s prediction of thermal radiation by black holes has been shown by Unruh to be expected also in condensed matter systems. We show here that in a black hole-like configuration realized in a BEC this particle-creation does indeed take place and can be unambiguously identified via a characteristic pattern in the density-density correlations. This opens the concrete possibility of the experimental verification of this effect.

Journal/Review: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D

Volume: 19 (14)      Pages from: 2371  to: 2377

KeyWords: Evaporation
DOI: 10.1142/S0218271810018463

Citations: 9
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