Stimulated Hawking effect and quasinormal mode resonance in a polariton simulator of field theory on curved spacetime

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12339v1
• Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:41:57 GMT
• Title: Stimulated Hawking effect and quasinormal mode resonance in a polariton simulator of field theory on curved spacetime
• Authors: Mattheus Burkhard, Malte Kroj, Kévin Falque, Alberto Bramati, Iacopo Carusotto, Maxime J Jacquet,
• Abstract summary: We numerically examine the emphstimulated Hawking effect using a coherent probe incident on the horizon from the exterior.<n>We find that the stimulated Hawking effect manifests as transmission into a negative-energy Bogoliubov channel inside the horizon.
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• Abstract: The Hawking effect amplifies fluctuations in the vicinity of horizons, both in black holes and in analogue platforms. Here, we consider a polariton simulator and numerically examine the \emph{stimulated} Hawking effect using a coherent probe incident on the horizon from the exterior. We implement an experimentally realistic effective spacetime that supports a quasinormal mode (QNM) in the vicinity of the horizon. We find that the stimulated Hawking effect manifests as transmission into a negative-energy Bogoliubov channel inside the horizon, consistent with pseudo-unitary Bogoliubov scattering. Moreover, transmission across the horizon peaks at the QNM frequency. The computed spectral signatures provide a practical guide for future experimental investigations of the Hawking effect and its interplay with QNMs, an open question in quantum field theory in curved spacetime.

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