Published December 7, 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Perturbations of Schwarzschild black holes in laboratories

  • 1. Instituto de Fisica, Universidade de Sao Paulo, CP 66318, 05315-970, Sao Paulo-SP (Brazil)

Description

It is well known that the perturbations of Schwarzschild black holes are governed by a wave equation with some effective potential. We consider perturbations of a gas in a tube called the de Laval nozzle, which is narrow in the middle and has a sonic point in the throat. By equating the wave equation in a de Laval nozzle of an arbitrary form with the wave equation of spin-s perturbations of Schwarzschild black holes, we find the exact expression for the form of the de Laval nozzle, for which acoustic perturbations of the gas flow correspond to the general form of perturbations of Schwarzschild black holes. This allows observation, in a laboratory, of the acoustic waves, which are analog of damping quasinormal oscillations of Schwarzschild black holes. The found exact acoustic analog allows us to also observe some other phenomena governed by the wave equation, such as the wave scattering and tunneling

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1088/0264-9381/24/23/012;
PII
S0264-9381(07)55418-3;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Classical and Quantum Gravity
Journal Volume
24
Journal Issue
23
Journal Page Range
p. 5901-5909
ISSN
0264-9381
CODEN
CQGRDG

INIS

Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
39043819
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
BLACK HOLES; DISTURBANCES; GAS FLOW; OSCILLATIONS; PERTURBATION THEORY; POTENTIALS; SCATTERING; SOUND WAVES; SPIN; TUNNEL EFFECT; WAVE EQUATIONS
Descriptors DEC
ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FLUID FLOW; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES