Classical aspects of Hawking radiation verified in analogue gravity experiment

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-00266-8_8zbMATH Open1328.83116arXiv1302.0375OpenAlexW3106111047MaRDI QIDQ5261912FDOQ5261912

Edmund W. Tedford, Gregory A. Lawrence, Silke Weinfurtner, W. G. Unruh, Matthew C. J. Penrice

Publication date: 8 July 2015

Published in: Lecture Notes in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: There is an analogy between the propagation of fields on a curved spacetime and shallow water waves in an open channel flow. By placing a streamlined obstacle into an open channel flow we create a region of high velocity over the obstacle that can include wave horizons. Long (shallow water) waves propagating upstream towards this region are blocked and converted into short (deep water) waves. This is the analogue of the stimulated Hawking emission by a white hole (the time inverse of a black hole). The measurements of amplitudes of the converted waves demonstrate that they appear in pairs and are classically correlated; the spectra of the conversion process is described by a Boltzmann-distribution; and the Boltzmann-distribution is determined by the determined by the change in flow across the white hole horizon.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.0375

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zbMATH Keywords

black holeHawking radiationanalogue gravityhorizonwhite holeBoltzmann-distributionpropagation of fields on a curved spacetimestimulated Hawking emission

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rarefied gas flows, Boltzmann equation in fluid mechanics (76P05) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25) Experimental work for problems pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-05)

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