Amplifying the Hawking signal in BECs
arXiv:1403.1877 · doi:10.1155/2014/713574
Abstract
We consider simple models of Bose-Einstein condensates to study analog pair-creation effects, namely the Hawking effect from acoustic black holes and the dynamical Casimir effect in rapidly time-dependent backgrounds. We also focus on a proposal by Cornell to amplify the Hawking signal in density-density correlators by reducing the atoms' interactions shortly before measurements are made.
10 pages, 3 figures; to appear in Advances in High Energy Physics, special Issue 'Experimental Tests of Quantum Gravity and Exotic Quantum Field Theory Effects'