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.

Testing Hawking particle creation by black holes through correlation measurements

Carusotto I;Recati A
2010

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.
2010
Istituto Nazionale di Ottica - INO
analog models
BEC
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