Hawking radiation from an acoustic black hole on an ion ring

B. Horstmann*, B. Reznik, S. Fagnocchi, J. I. Cirac

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Abstract

In this Letter we propose to simulate acoustic black holes with ions in rings. If the ions are rotating with a stationary and inhomogeneous velocity profile, regions can appear where the ion velocity exceeds the group velocity of the phonons. In these regions phonons are trapped like light in black holes, even though we have a discrete field theory and a nonlinear dispersion relation. We study the appearance of Hawking radiation in this setup and propose a scheme to detect it.

Original languageEnglish
Article number250403
JournalPhysical Review Letters
Volume104
Issue number25
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Jun 2010

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