Questioning the Recent Observation of Quantum Hawking Radiation

Ulf Leonhardt

doi:10.1002/andp.201700114

Questioning the Recent Observation of Quantum Hawking Radiation

Ulf Leonhardt

Department of Physics of Complex Systems

Weizmann Institute of Science

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A recent article [J. Steinhauer, Nat. Phys. 2016, 12, 959] has reported the observation of quantum Hawking radiation and its entanglement in an analogue black hole. Here, the published evidence, its consistency with theoretical bounds, and the statistical significance of the results are analyzed. The analysis raises severe doubts on the observation of Hawking radiation.

Original language	English
Article number	1700114
Number of pages	7
Journal	Annalen der Physik
Volume	530
Issue number	5
Early online date	26 Mar 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/andp.201700114
State	Published - May 2018

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General Physics and Astronomy

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