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Betül Demirkaya1, Tekin Dereli1, Kaan Güven1
1Department of Physics, Koç University, 34450 Sarıyer, İstanbul, Turkey.
Abstract:
This paper investigates the acoustic superradiance of the density and phase fluctuations from the single vortex state of a Bose-Einstein condensate, by employing full time-domain and asymptotic frequency domain numerical calculations. The draining bathtub model of an incompressible barotropic fluid is adopted to describe the vortex. The propagation of the axisymmetric density and phase fluctuations in the condensate are governed by the massless scalar Klein-Gordon wave equation, which establishes the rotating black-hole analogy. Hence, the amplified scattering of these fluctuations from the vortex comprise the superradiance effect. A particular coordinate transformation is applied to reveal the event horizon and the ergosphere termwise in the metric and the respective asymptotic spectral solutions. A comparative analysis of the time domain and asymptotic frequency domain results are given for a range of rotational speed of the vortex and the frequency of the impinging fluctuations. The agreement at low rotational speeds of the vortex is shown to be very good, which starts to deteriorate at higher rotational speeds due to increasing constraint violations of the time-domain calculations. We further demonstrate an asymptotic upper bound for the superradiance as a function of vortex rotational speed, provided that the vortex remains stable.
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