The BHL-BCL crossover: from nonlinear to linear quantum amplification

Abstract

The black-hole laser (BHL) effect is the self-amplification of Hawking radiation between a pair of horizons which act as a resonant cavity. In a flowing atomic condensate, the BHL effect arises in a finite supersonic region, where Bogoliubov-Cherenkov-Landau (BCL) radiation is resonantly excited by any static perturbation. Thus, experimental attempts to produce a BHL unavoidably deal with the presence of a strong BCL background, making the observation of the BHL effect still a major challenge in the analogue gravity field. Here, we perform a theoretical study of the BHL-BCL crossover using an idealized model where both phenomena can be unambiguously isolated. By drawing an analogy with an unstable pendulum, we distinguish three main regimes according to the interplay between quantum fluctuations and classical stimulation: quantum BHL, classical BHL, and BCL. Based on quite general scaling arguments, the nonlinear amplification of quantum fluctuations up to saturation is identified as the most robust trait of a quantum BHL. A classical BHL behaves instead as a linear quantum amplifier, where the output is proportional to the input. The BCL regime also acts as a linear quantum amplifier, but its gain is exponentially smaller as compared to a classical BHL. Complementary signatures of black-hole lasing are a decrease in the amplification for increasing BCL amplitude or a nonmonotonic dependence of the growth rate with respect to the background parameters. We also identify interesting analogue phenomena such as Hawking-stimulated white-hole radiation or quantum BCL-stimulated Hawking radiation. The results of this work not only are of interest for analogue gravity, where they help to distinguish each phenomenon and to design experimental schemes for a clear observation of the BHL effect, but they also open the prospect of finding applications of analogue concepts in quantum technologies.

24 pages, 14 figures, 1 table. Accepted version of the manuscript

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