Super-radiant scattering of dispersive fields

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/30/8/085009MaRDI QIDQ4923876zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Maurício Richartz, Angus Prain, Silke Weinfurtner, S. Liberati

Publication date 27 May 2013

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1208.3601

zbMATH Keywords

dispersive fieldsquantum field theorysuper-radiant scatteringwave equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Special relativity (83A05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Analogues of general relativity in lower dimensions (83C80)

Abstract: Motivated by analogue models of classical and quantum field theory in curved spacetimes and their recent experimental realizations, we consider wave scattering processes of dispersive fields exhibiting two extra degrees of freedom. In particular, we investigate how standard superradiant scattering processes are affected by subluminal or superluminal modifications of the dispersion relation. We analyze simple 1-dimensional toy-models based on fourth-order corrections to the standard second order wave equation and show that low-frequency waves impinging on generic scattering potentials can be amplified during the process. In specific cases, by assuming a simple step potential, we determine quantitatively the deviations in the amplification spectrum that arise due to dispersion, and demonstrate that the amplification can be further enhanced due to the presence of extra degrees of freedom. We also consider dispersive scattering processes in which the medium where the scattering takes place is moving with respect to the observer and show that superradiance can also be manifest in such situations.

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