Polariton fluids for analogue gravity physics

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2019.0225zbMATH Open1462.81148arXiv2002.00043OpenAlexW3105000614WikidataQ97591717 ScholiaQ97591717MaRDI QIDQ4994641FDOQ4994641

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Publication date: 20 June 2021

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Analogue gravity enables the study of fields on curved spacetimes in the laboratory. There are numerous experimental platforms in which amplification at the event horizon or the ergoregion has been observed. Here, we demonstrate how optically generating a defect in a polariton microcavity enables the creation of one- and two-dimensional, transsonic fluid flows. We show that this highly tuneable method permits the creation of sonic horizons. Furthermore, we present a rotating geometry akin to the water-wave bathtub vortex. These experiments usher-in the possibility of observing stimulated as well as spontaneous amplification by the Hawking, Penrose and Zeld'ovich effects in fluids of light.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.00043

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zbMATH Keywords

fluid mechanicsblack holesanalogue gravityopticsquantum physicspolaritonssolid-state physicsquantum fluids of light

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20)

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