Testing Hawking particle creation by black holes through correlation measurements
arXiv:1005.4000 · doi:10.1142/S0218271810018463
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 realised 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.
13 pages, 2 figures. Honorable mention in the 2010 GRF Essay Competition