Slow light as a black hole analogue? (English) Zbl 1167.83321
Novello, Mário (ed.) et al., The tenth Marcel Grossmann meeting. On recent developments in theoretical and experimental general relativity, gravitation and relativistic field theories. Proceedings of the MG10 meeting held at Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20–26 July 2003. 3 Vols. Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific (ISBN 981-256-667-8/hbk/set). 1565-1567 (2006).
Summary: The phenomenon of slow light (electromagnetically induced transparency), which would seem an ideal candidate for constructing a black hole analogue, cannot be used to simulate Hawking radiation. Even though an appropriately designed slow-light set-up may model classical features of black holes – such as horizon, mode mixing, “Bogoliubov” coefficients, etc. – it does not reproduce the related quantum effects.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1089.83003].
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1089.83003].
MSC:
| 83C57 | Black holes |
| 83C47 | Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory |
