Superradiant scattering in fluids of light
arXiv:1904.00684 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.024037
Abstract
We theoretically investigate the scattering process of Bogoliubov excitations on a rotating photon-fluid. Using the language of Noether currents we demonstrate the occurrence of a resonant amplification phenomenon, which reduces to the standard superradiance in the hydrodynamic limit. We make use of a time-domain formulation where superradiance emerges as a transient effect encoded in the amplitudes and phases of propagating localised wavepackets. Our findings generalize previous studies in quantum fluids to the case of a non-negligible quantum pressure and can be readily applied also to other physical systems, in particular atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. Finally we discuss ongoing experiments to observe superradiance in photon fluids, and how our time domain analysis can be used to characterise superradiant scattering in non-ideal experimental conditions.
arXiv comment11 pages, 6 figures Version 2: Updated first author affiliation, fixed grammatical typos
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