Quantum Vacuum Excitation of a Quasinormal Mode in an Analog Model of Black Hole Spacetime

Year: 2023

Authors: Jacquet MJ., Giacomelli L., Joly M., Claude F., Giacobino E., Glorieux Q., Carusotto I., Bramati A.

Autors Affiliation: Sorbonne Univ, Univ PSL, Lab Kastler Brossel, CNRS,ENS,Coll France, F-75005 Paris, France; Univ Trento, CNR BEC Ctr, INO, via Sommar 14, I-38123 Trento, Italy; Univ Trento, Dipartimento Fis, via Sommar 14, I-38123 Trento, Italy.

Abstract: Vacuum quantum fluctuations near horizons are known to yield correlated emission by the Hawking effect. We use a driven-dissipative quantum fluid of microcavity polaritons as an analog model of a quantum field theory on a black-hole spacetime and numerically calculate correlated emission. We show that, in addition to the Hawking effect at the sonic horizon, quantum fluctuations may result in a sizable stationary excitation of a quasinormal mode of the field theory. Observable signatures of the excitation of the quasinormal mode are found in the spatial density fluctuations as well as in the spectrum of Hawking emission. This suggests an intrinsic fluctuation-driven mechanism leading to the quantum excitation of quasinormal modes on black hole spacetimes.

Journal/Review: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Volume: 130 (11)      Pages from: 111501-1  to: 111501-6

More Information: We thank Theo Torres, Riccardo Sturani, Luciano Vanzo, Stefano Vitale, and Mathieu Isoard for insightful discus-sions on QNMs and/or quantum fluids. We also thank Tangui Aladjidi for his careful reading of the manuscript. We acknowledge financial support from the H2020-FETFLAG-2018-2020 Project PhoQuS (No. 820392) .I. C. and L. G. acknowledge financial support from the Provincia Autonoma di Trento and from the Q@TN initiative. Q. G. and A. B. are members of the Institut Universitaire de France.
KeyWords: Spectrum
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.111501

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