Ramp-up of Hawking Radiation in Bose-Einstein-Condensate Analog Black Holes

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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This study presents a simple model to describe the formation of an acoustic black hole in a Bose-Einstein condensate, allowing for analytical computation of the evolution of the corresponding density-density correlator over time. The emergence of analog Hawking radiation is observed from a quantum atmosphere region significantly displaced from the horizon, and is quantitatively studied at T = 0 and also in the presence of an initial temperature T as commonly found in experiments.