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We have studied analytically the approximate solutions to the gapped mode equations in the hydrodynamic regime for a class of binary Bose-Einstein condensate acoustic black holes. The horizon from the transonic flow is formed by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-10 Wei-Can Syu , Da-Shin Lee

We introduce analogue black holes (BHs) based on ideal magnetohydrodynamic equations. Similar to acoustic BHs, which trap phonons and emit Hawking radiation (HR) at the sonic horizon where the flow speed changes from super- to sub-sonic, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-08 A. Gheibi , H. Safari , D. E. Innes

We discuss the low-energy properties of binary superfluids with density-dependent interactions. Adding an intra-species coupling that induces an explicit soft symmetry-breaking, we determine the background pressure and we show that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-03 Silvia Trabucco , Luca Lepori , Maria Luisa Chiofalo , Massimo Mannarelli

Acoustic analogues of black holes (dumb holes) are generated when a supersonic fluid flow entrains sound waves and forms a trapped region from which sound cannot escape. The surface of no return, the acoustic horizon, is qualitatively very…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Carlos Barcelo , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser

Phonons in Bose-Einstein condensates propagate as massless scalar particles on top of an emergent acoustic metric. This hydrodynamics/gravity analogy can be exploited to realize acoustic black holes, featuring an event horizon that traps…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-04 Chiara Coviello , Maria Luisa Chiofalo , Dario Grasso , Stefano Liberati , Massimo Mannarelli , Silvia Trabucco

Understanding the dynamics and stability of transonic flows in quantum fluids, especially for those beyond one spatial dimension, is an outstanding challenge, with applications ranging from nonlinear optics and condensed matter to analogue…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-05 Hikaru Tamura , Sergei Khlebnikov , Cheng-An Chen , Chen-Lung Hung

Analogue gravity studies the physics of curved spacetime in laboratory experiments, where the propagation of elementary excitations in inhomogeneous flows is mapped to those of scalar fields in a curved spacetime metric. While most analogue…

Acoustic waves in fluids undergoing the transition from sub- to supersonic flow satisfy governing equations similar to those for light waves in the immediate vicinity of a black hole event horizon. This acoustic analogy has been used by…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-09-30 Eugene R. Tracy , Dmitriy Zhigunov

Analogue Hawking radiation from acoustic horizons is now a well-established phenomenon, both theoretically and experimentally. Its persistence, despite the modified dispersion relations characterising analogue models, has been crucial in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-23 Francesco Del Porro , Stefano Liberati , Marc Schneider

It is a deceptively simple question to ask how acoustic disturbances propagate in a non-homogeneous flowing fluid. This question can be answered by invoking the language of Lorentzian differential geometry: If the fluid is barotropic and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Matt Visser

We address an interesting question in the present paper that whether the acoustic gravity can be applied as a tool to the study of regular black holes. For this purpose, we construct a general acoustic regular black hole in the spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-22 Chen Lan , Yan-Gang Miao , Yi-Xiong Zang

Optical field fluctuations in self-defocusing media can be described in terms of sound waves in a 2D photon-fluid. It is shown that, while the background fluid couples with the usual flat metric, sound-like waves experience an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-03 Francesco Marino

We formulate and solve the equations governing the transonic behaviour of a general relativistic black-hole accretion disc with non-zero advection velocity. We demonstrate that a relativistic Rankine-Hugoniot shock may form leading to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Tapas Kumar Das , Neven Bilic , Surajit Dasgupta

We propose an experiment to detect and characterize the analog Hawking radiation in an analog model of gravity consisting of a flowing exciton-polariton condensate. Under a suitably designed coherent pump configuration, the condensate…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-11-02 Pjotrs Grisins , Hai Son Nguyen , Jacqueline Bloch , Alberto Amo , Iacopo Carusotto

We introduce the notion of fluid approximation of a quantum spherical black hole in the context of Loop Quantum Gravity. In this limit, the microstates of the black hole are intertwiners between "large" representations $s_i$ which typically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-22 Pierre Heidmann , Hongguang Liu , Karim Noui

We consider the hydrodynamics of supersymmetric fluids. Supersymmetry is broken spontaneously and the low energy spectrum includes a fermionic massless mode, the $\mathit{phonino}$. We use two complementary approaches to describe the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Carlos Hoyos , Boaz Keren-Zur , Yaron Oz

In a hydrodynamic flow, with flow becoming supersonic at some point, the subsonic-supersonic boundary behaves as the horizon of a black hole. Possibility of detecting Hawking radiation from such acoustic black holes has been investigated in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-03 Sanatan Digal , Ajit M. Srivastava

We propose a new analogue model of gravity - the evolving quark gluon plasma (QGP) produced in relativistic heavy ion collisions. This quark gluon plasma is the "most inviscid" fluid known. Such low kinematic viscosity is believed to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-08 Arpan Das , Shreyansh S. Dave , Oindrila Ganguly , Ajit M. Srivastava

Acoustic black holes are very interesting non-gravitational objects which can be described by the geometrical formalism of General Relativity. These models can be useful to experimentally test effects otherwise undetectable, as for example…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Fagnocchi

We demonstrate the spontaneous formation of acoustic black holes in exciton-polariton condensates triggered by discontinuous Riemann-type initial conditions. Starting from a quasi-conservative Gross-Pitaevskii model, we show that nonlinear…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Junhui Cao , Jinling Wang , Kirill Bazarov , Chenqi Jin , Huijun Li , Anton Nalitov , Alexey Kavokin