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An analogue of Hawking radiation in the quantum Hall effect

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2013-08-22 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Abstract

We use the identification of the edge mode of the filling fraction ν=1\nu=1 quantum Hall phase with a 1+1 dimensional chiral Dirac fermion to construct an analogue model for a chiral fermion in a space-time geometry possessing an event horizon. By solving the model in the lowest Landau level, we show that the event horizon emits particles and holes with a thermal spectrum. Each emitted quasiparticle is correlated with an opposite-energy partner on the other side of the event horizon. Once we trace out these "unobservable" partners, we are left with a thermal density matrix.

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@article{arxiv.1209.2317,
  title  = {An analogue of Hawking radiation in the quantum Hall effect},
  author = {Michael Stone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.2317},
  year   = {2013}
}

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16 pages, five figures