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20202026
most citedRotating Curved Spacetime Signatures from a Giant Quantum Vortex

56 citations · 65 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

gr-qc2026

End state of the experimental black-hole bomb

Patrik Švančara, Leonardo Solidoro, Pietro Smaniotto +10

Rotating black holes can amplify incident waves through superradiant scattering. When these waves are confined, repeated amplification gives rise to the black-hole bomb instability…

gr-qc2026

Spectroscopy of analogue black holes using simulation-based inference

Leonardo Solidoro, Sebastian H. Völkel, Silke Weinfurtner

The emergence of precision gravity simulators in quantum and fluid systems is opening new avenues for probing curved-spacetime physics and black-hole phenomenology under controlled…

physics.flu-dyn2025

When is a sloshing vortex an analogue black hole bomb?

Sam Patrick, Leonardo Solidoro, Maurício Richartz +4

Draining vortices provide a powerful platform for simulating black hole phenomena in tabletop experiments. In realistic fluid systems confined within a finite container, low-freque…

physics.optics2025

Digital holographic imaging for free surfaces of superfluid helium

Vitor S. Barroso, Patrik Švančara, Chris Goodwin +9

Visualising the free surface of superfluid helium offers a rare opportunity to explore wave dynamics in the limit of vanishing viscosity. Such measurements are nonetheless challeng…

gr-qc2025

Black-hole spectroscopy from a giant quantum vortex

Pietro Smaniotto, Leonardo Solidoro, Patrik Švančara +5

Black-hole spectroscopy aims to infer the fundamental properties of black holes by analysing the spectrum of gravitational waves emitted as they settle into equilibrium. These reso…

gr-qc2024★ 7 cited

On the origin of quasinormal modes in semi-open systems

Leonardo Solidoro, Sam Patrick, Ruth Gregory +1

Astrophysical black holes are open systems which, when perturbed, radiate quasi-normal modes (QNMs) to infinity. By contrast, laboratory analogues are necessarily finite-sized, pre…

gr-qc2023★ 56 cited

Rotating Curved Spacetime Signatures from a Giant Quantum Vortex

Patrik Švančara, Pietro Smaniotto, Leonardo Solidoro +5

Gravity simulators are laboratory systems where small excitations like sound or surface waves behave as fields propagating on a curved spacetime geometry. The analogy between gravi…

quant-ph2022★ 1 cited

From the delay time in Quantum Mechanics to the Goos-Hänchen shift in Optics

Stefano De Leo, Leonardo Solidoro

Delay times in quantum mechanics always represented an intriguing challenge for physicists. Due to the fact that quantum mechanical experiments are, often, hard to be implemented,…

gr-qc2020★ 1 cited

Quasinormal modes in Lorentz violating black hole analogues

Sam Patrick, Leonardo Solidoro

Analogue models of black holes typically have collective excitations with a dispersion relation that breaks the effective Lorentz symmetry at high energy. We investigate the conseq…