Thumbnail Image
Item

Hawking Radiation and Classical Tunneling: a Numerical Study

Zhigunov, Dmitriy
Abstract
Unruh [1] demonstrated that black holes have an analogy in acoustics. Under this analogy the acoustic event horizon is defined by the set of points in which the local background flow exceeds the local sound speed. In past work [2], we demonstrated that under a white noise source, the acoustic event horizon will radiate at a thermal spectrum via a classical tunneling process. In this work, I summarize the theory presented in [2] and nondimensionalize it in order to reduce the dynamical equations to one parameter, the coupling coefficient η2. Since η2 is the sole parameter of the system, we are able to vary it in a numerical study of the dependence of the transmission coefficient on η2. This numerical work leads to the same functional dependence of the transmission coefficient on η2 as predicted in [2].
Description
Date
2017-05-01
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Collections
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Show all metadata
Download Dataset
Files
Physics_Thesis_Using_Old_Results__1_.pdf
Adobe PDF, 1.13 MB
Rights Holder
Usage License
Embargo
Research Projects
Organizational Units
Journal Issue
Keywords
Citation
Advisor
Tracy, Eugene R.
Hoatson, Gina
Zobin, Nahum
Department
Physics
DOI
URI
https://scholarworks.wm.edu/handle/internal/10432
Embedded videos