Testing Hawking particle creation by black holes through correlation measurements

Roberto Balbinot, Iacopo Carusotto, Alessandro Fabbri, Alessio Recati

Published Jan 1, 2010• 0 citations

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 densitydensity correlations. This opens the concrete possibility of the experimental verification of this effect.

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