<p>Hawking radiation is a fundamental spontaneous phenomenon in which the event horizon of a black hole transforms the vacuum state into a pair of correlated particles: the Hawking radiation and its partner. This emission can also be stimulated by a state other than the vacuum. A similar phenomenon, known as analogue Hawking radiation, has been observed across various physical systems, but experimental realizations have largely remained in the classical regime. This work presents an experimental verification of analogue Hawking radiation stimulated by a single-particle state, producing a verifiably single-photon Hawking output. Using heralded single photons generated via spontaneous four-wave mixing, we stimulate the analogue Hawking effect in an optical fiber. We characterize the resulting Hawking signal by measuring its spectral dependence, intensity scaling, and heralded second-order correlation. Our results establish a platform for exploring quantum correlations and entanglement in analogue gravity.</p>

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Measurement of analogue Hawking radiation stimulated by a single photon

  • Rodrigo Felipe-Elizarraras,
  • Hector Cruz-Ramirez,
  • Karina Garay-Palmett,
  • Alfred U’Ren,
  • David Bermudez

摘要

Hawking radiation is a fundamental spontaneous phenomenon in which the event horizon of a black hole transforms the vacuum state into a pair of correlated particles: the Hawking radiation and its partner. This emission can also be stimulated by a state other than the vacuum. A similar phenomenon, known as analogue Hawking radiation, has been observed across various physical systems, but experimental realizations have largely remained in the classical regime. This work presents an experimental verification of analogue Hawking radiation stimulated by a single-particle state, producing a verifiably single-photon Hawking output. Using heralded single photons generated via spontaneous four-wave mixing, we stimulate the analogue Hawking effect in an optical fiber. We characterize the resulting Hawking signal by measuring its spectral dependence, intensity scaling, and heralded second-order correlation. Our results establish a platform for exploring quantum correlations and entanglement in analogue gravity.