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We investigate properties of two-dimensional asymptotically flat black holes which arise in both string theory and in scale invariant theories of gravity. By introducing matter sources in the field equations we show how such objects can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 R. B. Mann , M. S. Morris , S. F. Ross

Ultrasonic standing waves in a cylindrical enclosure can achieve very high local pressures at the acoustic nodes (~1 MPa). When the acoustic wave passes through a phononic crystal comprised of steel and glycerin, there are regions of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-07-16 Edward A. Rietman

Quantum fields in curved spacetime exhibit a wealth of effects like Hawking radiation from black holes. While quantum field theory in black holes can only be studied theoretically, it can be tested in controlled laboratory experiments. In…

Wave scattering phenomena are ubiquitous in almost all Sciences, from Biology to Physics. Interestingly, it has been shown many times that different physical systems are the stage to the same processes. The discoveries of such analogies…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-04 Theo Torres

We study acoustic white holes in a steadily flowing atomic Bose-Einstein condensate. A white hole configuration is obtained when the flow velocity goes from a super-sonic value in the upstream region to a sub-sonic one in the downstream…

We harness the momentum of light resonating inside a micro-droplet cavity, to experimentally generate micro-flows within the envelope of the drop. We 3D map these optically induced flows by using fluorescent nanoparticles; which reveals…

Optics · Physics 2016-09-16 Daniel Bar-David , Shai Maayani , Leoplodo L. Martin , Tal Carmon

We present the results of an analysis of superradiant energy flow due to scalar fields incident on an acoustic black hole. In addition to providing independent confirmation of the recent results in [5], we determine in detail the profile of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 K. Choy , T. Kruk , M. E. Carrington , T. Fugleberg , J. Zahn , R. Kobes , G. Kunstatter , D. Pickering

Analog gravity experiments are making remarkable strides in unveiling both the classical and quantum nature of black holes. By harnessing diverse states of matter, contemporary tabletop setups now replicate strong-field phenomena typically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 H. S. Vieira , Kyriakos Destounis

We present an analysis of scattering by a fluid-mechanical `black hole analogue', known as the draining bathtub vortex: a two-dimensional flow which possesses both a sonic horizon and an ergoregion. We consider the scattering of a plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-02 Sam R. Dolan , Ednilton S. Oliveira

Rotating acoustic metrics may have black holes inside the ergosphere. Simple cases of acoustic black holes were studied in the references [21], [4]. In the present paper we study the Hawking radiation for more complicated cases of acoustic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-13 Gregory Eskin

Classical phenomenological aspects of acoustic perturbations on a draining bathtub geometry where a surface with reflectivity $\mathcal{R}$ is set at a small distance from the would-be acoustic horizon, which is excised, are addressed. Like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Nuno M. Santos

It is demonstrated that gravity waves of a flowing fluid in a shallow basin can be used to simulate phenomena around black holes in the laboratory. Since the speed of the gravity waves as well as their high-wavenumber dispersion (subluminal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ralf Schützhold , William G. Unruh

We develop and calibrate a new method for estimating the gravitational radiation emitted by complex motions of matter sources in the vicinity of black holes. We compute numerically the linearized curvature perturbations induced by matter…

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By foliating the four-dimensional C-metric black hole spacetime, we consider a kind of initial-value-like formulation of the vacuum Einstein's equation, the holographic initial data is a double consisting of the induced metric and the…

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The dynamics of apparent and event horizons of various black hole spacetimes, including those containing distorted, rotating and colliding black holes, are studied. We have developed a powerful and efficient new method for locating the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Peter Anninos , David Bernstein , Steven Brandt , Joseph Libson , Joan Masso , Edward Seidel , Larry Smarr , Wai-Mo Suen , Paul Walker

We study the conditions under which an analog acoustic geometry of a relativistic fluid in flat spacetime can take the same form as the Schwarzschild black hole geometry. We find that the speed of sound must necessarily be equal to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-01 Neven Bilić , Hrvoje Nikolić

Um fluido em movimento pode agir sobre o som da mesma forma que os espa\c{c}o-tempos curvos podem influenciar na trajet\'oria da luz na relatividade geral. Com isso, pode-se descrever a propaga\c{c}\~ao dessas ondas sonoras atrav\'es de uma…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Júnior Diniz Toniato

The curved geometry of a spacetime manifold arises as a solution of Einstein's gravitational field equation. We show that the metric of a spherically symmetric gravitational field configuration can be viewed as an optical metric created by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri N. Obukhov

In this paper, we propose a new Analogue Gravity example - a spinning (or Kerr) Black Hole in an extended fluid model. The fluid model receives Berry curvature contributions and applies to electron dynamics in Condensed Matter lattice…

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