Estimate of the superradiance spectrum in dispersive media

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DOI10.1098/RSTA.2019.0236zbMATH Open1462.76216arXiv2003.02230OpenAlexW3042328536WikidataQ97591715 ScholiaQ97591715MaRDI QIDQ4994643FDOQ4994643

Theo Torres

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: In 2016, the Nottingham group detected the rotational superradiance effect. While this experiment demonstrated the robustness of the superradiance process, it still lacks a complete theoretical description due to the many effects at stage in the experiment. In this paper, we shine new light on this experiment by deriving an estimate of the reflection coefficient in the dispersive regime by means of a WKB analysis. This estimate is used to evaluate the reflection coefficient spectrum of counter rotating modes in the Nottingham experiment. Our finding suggests that the vortex flow in the superradiance experiment was not purely absorbing, contrary to the event horizon of a rotating black hole. While this result increases the gap between this experimental vortex flow and a rotating black hole, it is argued that it is in fact this gap that is the source of novel ideas.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.02230




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