Polariton fluids for analogue gravity physics
| Autor: | T. Boulier, Elisabeth Giacobino, Alberto Amo, Simon Pigeon, Maxime Jacquet, Anne Maître, Emiliano Cancellieri, Quentin Glorieux, C. Adrados, Alberto Bramati, Ferdinand Claude |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (LKB [Collège de France]), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Fédération de recherche du Département de physique de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure - ENS Paris (FRDPENS), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Collège de France (CdF (institution)) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Gravity (chemistry)
Event horizon General Mathematics General Physics and Astronomy FOS: Physical sciences 01 natural sciences 010305 fluids & plasmas General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 0103 physical sciences Polariton analogue gravity 010306 general physics Physics Quantum Physics General Engineering quantum fluids of light Articles black holes [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEN-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/General Physics [physics.gen-ph] Vortex Classical mechanics Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas) Condensed Matter - Quantum Gases Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Transonic polaritons |
| Zdroj: | Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc.Lond.A Phil.Trans.Roy.Soc.Lond.A, 2020, 378 (2177), pp.20190225. ⟨10.1098/rsta.2019.0225⟩ |
| Popis: | Analogue gravity enables the study of fields on curved spacetimes in the laboratory. There are numerous experimental platforms in which amplification at the event horizon or the ergoregion has been observed. Here, we demonstrate how optically generating a defect in a polariton microcavity enables the creation of one- and two-dimensional, transsonic fluid flows. We show that this highly tuneable method permits the creation of sonic horizons. Furthermore, we present a rotating geometry akin to the water-wave bathtub vortex. These experiments usher-in the possibility of observing stimulated as well as spontaneous amplification by the Hawking, Penrose and Zeld'ovich effects in fluids of light. Comment: Accepted for publication in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: special issue on Analogue Gravity. V3 with some typos corrected and amended abstract |
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