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Alessandro Fabbri1, Roberto Balbinot2
1Departamento de Física Teórica and IFIC, Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia-CSIC, C. Dr. Moliner 50, 46100 Burjassot, Spain.
Abstract:
Inspired by a recent experiment by Steinhauer and co-workers, we present a simple model which describes the formation of an acoustic black hole in a Bose-Einstein condensate, allowing an analytical computation of the evolution in time of the corresponding density-density correlator. We show the emergence of analog Hawking radiation out of a "quantum atmosphere" region significantly displaced from the horizon. This is quantitatively studied both at T=0 and even in the presence of an initial temperature T, as is always the case experimentally.
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