Optical Black-hole Analog Created by Topological Phase Transition with a Long-lived Horizon
arXiv:1908.05049
Abstract
Hawking radiation, a manifestation of quantum field theory in curved spacetime, has stimulated extensive theoretical and experimental studies of various black-hole (BH) analogs. However, an undisputed confirmation of Hawking radiation remains elusive. One challenge is BH analog structures with long-lived horizons are difficult to achieve. Here, we theoretically demonstrate a new type of optical BH analog based on light cone evolution associated with topological phase transition of Dirac cones. The transition from a type-II to type-I Dirac/Weyl cone creates an analogous curved spacetime that crosses a type-III Dirac/Weyl cone, which affords a stationary configuration of long-lived event horizon. Photons tunneling through the horizon emit a spectrum of Hawking radiation. As an example, we design a laboratory version in an inhomogeneous two-dimensional graphyne-like topological photonic lattice with a Hawking temperature of 0.14 mK. Understanding Hawking-like radiation in this unique topological BH is not only of fundamental interest in its own right but may also provide new hints to gravitational physics.
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