Observation of noise correlated by the Hawking effect in a water tank

Autor: Euvé, L. -P., Michel, F., Parentani, R., Philbin, T. G., Rousseaux, G.
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 121301 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.121301
Popis: We measured the power spectrum and two-point correlation function for the randomly fluctuating free surface on the downstream side of a stationary flow with a maximum Froude number $F_{\rm max} \approx 0.85$ reached above a localised obstacle. On such a flow the scattering of incident long wavelength modes is analogous to that responsible for black hole radiation (the Hawking effect). Our measurements of the noise show a clear correlation between pairs of modes of opposite energies. We also measure the scattering coefficients by applying the same analysis of correlations to waves produced by a wave maker.
Comment: 11 pages, 14 figures. several points clarified; two new subsections in the Supplemental Material on the wave equation and the links with experiments in BECs
Databáze: arXiv