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Towards a Quantum Black Hole Simulator

Speaker:
  • Ruth Gregory
    (
    • King's College London
    )

Abstract

A black hole is characterised by the fact that nothing can escape - this feature, of a boundary of information that can be accessed from that which cannot, is more general than the spacetime boundary of the event horizon. Horizons can occur in a wide range of physical situations, many of which we can construct in the lab, leading to the field of Analogue Gravity. Most gravity simulators observe features, like super-radiance, that are analysed as a continuum effect in gravity, whereas many interesting "beyond GR" features theorise about the impact of quantised aspects of the black hole. In this talk, I will discuss recent experimental work on a liquid helium giant vortex that naturally has quantisation, and how we hope to build a quantised analogue black hole that can start to explore "black hole" phenomena in a much broader context.

Towards a Quantum Black Hole Simulator

Venue

Higgs Centre Seminar Room, JCMB (Find us on campus maps)
The Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics
School of Physics and Astronomy
James Clerk Maxwell Building, 4305
Peter Guthrie Tait Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3FD
UK

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