On dumb holes and their gravity duals

Sumit R. Das, Archisman Ghosh, Jae Hyuk Oh, Alfred D. Shapere

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Abstract

Inhomogeneous fluid flows which become supersonic are known to produce acoustic analogs of ergoregions and horizons. This leads to Hawking-like radiation of phonons with a temperature essentially given by the gradient of the velocity at the horizon. We find such acoustic dumb holes in charged conformal fluids and use the fluid-gravity correspondence to construct dual gravity solutions. A class of quasinormal modes around these gravitational backgrounds perceive a horizon. Upon quantization, this implies a thermal spectrum for these modes.

Original languageEnglish
Article number30
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2011
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011

Funding

FundersFunder number
Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences0855614

    Keywords

    • AdS-CFT correspondence
    • Gauge-gravity correspondence
    • Holography and quark-gluon plasmas

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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