Phys. Rev. A 80, 043603 (2009) [10 pages]Bogoliubov theory of acoustic Hawking radiation in Bose-Einstein condensatesReceived 24 July 2009; published 7 October 2009 We apply the microscopic Bogoliubov theory of dilute Bose-Einstein condensates to analyze quantum and thermal fluctuations in a flowing atomic condensate in the presence of a sonic horizon. For the simplest case of a step-like horizon, closed-form analytical expressions are found for the spectral distribution of the analog Hawking radiation and for the density correlation function. The peculiar long-distance density correlations that appear as a consequence of the Hawking emission features turns out to be reinforced by a finite initial temperature of the condensate. The analytical results are in good quantitative agreement with first principle numerical calculations. © 2009 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043603
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.80.043603
PACS:
03.75.Kk, 04.62.+v, 04.70.Dy
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