Classical Aspects of Hawking Radiation Verified in Analogue Gravity Experiment
Classical Aspects of Hawking Radiation Verified in Analogue Gravity Experiment
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模拟重力实验验证霍金辐射的经典方面
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2013
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G. Lawrence
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S. Weinfurtner;E. Tedford;M. Penrice;W. Unruh;G. Lawrence
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 change in flow across the white hole horizon.