Polariton fluids for analogue gravity physics
arXiv:2002.00043 · doi:10.1098/rsta.2019.0225
Abstract
Analogue gravity enables the study of fields on curved spacetimes in the laboratory. There are numerous experimental platforms in which amplification at the event horizon or the ergoregion has been observed. Here, we demonstrate how optically generating a defect in a polariton microcavity enables the creation of one- and two-dimensional, transsonic fluid flows. We show that this highly tuneable method permits the creation of sonic horizons. Furthermore, we present a rotating geometry akin to the water-wave bathtub vortex. These experiments usher-in the possibility of observing stimulated as well as spontaneous amplification by the Hawking, Penrose and Zeld'ovich effects in fluids of light.
arXiv commentAccepted for publication in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: special issue on Analogue Gravity. V3 with some typos corrected and amended abstract
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