In this talk I will present several measures of entanglement in an acoustic black hole realized in the flow of a Bose-Einstein condensate. I will specifically address (1) the resilience of the signal to a finite temperature and (2) how the specifics of the setting we consider enable to study tripartite observables of nonlocality.
QFT on curved geometries has predicted a number of pair-emission processes like rotational superradiance. These occur when the acoustic field in a quantum fluid scatters on some intangible surface of the fluid. For example, superradiance results from the scattering of acoustic waves (possibly in their vacuum state) at the surface where the total velocity of the fluid exceeds the speed of...
The black hole LASER effect is a theoretical prediction in General Relativity proposed by Vilenkin in 1978 for one horizon [1] and rediscovered in Analogue Gravity by Corley and Jacobson in 1999 for two horizons [2]. According to them, the superadiance effect (with rotation) or Hawking effect (without rotation) could be amplified by a "laser cavity" formed by either one horizon (a...
In this talk, we introduce a novel method for building an analog model with a Bose-Einstein condensate, in which the analogue metric is obtained using an effective field theory and a microscopic Lagrangian with a quartic interaction. The microscopic Lagrangian that we introduce is obtained first assuming that our system is described by a complex massive scalar field, and and then requiring...
The entanglement shared by the emitted particle fluxes is the very quantum signature of the Hawking process. Stimulated and spontaneously generated Hawking radiation has been experimentally investigated in several platforms, but measuring entanglement has proven to be elusive, due to its faint and fragile character. In this talk, I will discuss the main results of my work on optical analog...
The intricacy of general relativity has fostered the creation of numerous simplified models and representations, that are founded on the principle of a stretched membrane distorted by bodies moving on its surface. However, an inherent limitation in these systems is that these bodies are solid discrete masses, hence limiting their potential for representing complex merging dynamics like those...
We study the effects of the wavevector-dependent losses on polariton condensates. We demonstrate that because of these losses, a single vortex becomes a center of a convergent flow, which allows describing it by an analogue Kerr black hole metric with a dynamically evolving origin. For a pair of vortices, we find an analogue of the 3rd Kepler's law and estimate the emission rate of the...
The Analogue Gravity program has had considerable success recently, with ultracold gases playing a particularly prominent role as a system in which quantum aspects of field theory in curved spacetime can be explored. In this talk, I will present the analogy between a modulated 1D condensate and the preheating stage of cosmology, whereby a large number of quasiparticle pairs are excited out of...
In standard cosmological models, inflation is driven by a quantum field, the inflaton, whose constant energy density drives the superluminal expansion of the universe. When inflation stops, the universe has an extremely low density but the inflaton field starts to oscillate around its minimum of energy and decays into entangled pairs of particles. This is known as the pre-heating phase....
