Analogue models of gravity and fluctuation-induced phenomena (Higgs Centre Workshop)

27 Jun 2022, 09:00 → 29 Jun 2022, 17:00 Europe/London

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Monday 27 June

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome

09:30 → 10:15 William Unruh - University of British Columbia; Vancouver, Canada. Detection of acceleration temperature in BEC

10:15 → 11:00 Martin Bojowald - Pennsylvania State University; University Park, United States. A moment approach to non-adiabatic quantum dynamics

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Julien Grain - Paris-Saclay University - CNRS; Orsay, France. Stochastic inflation: modeling the back reaction of quantum fluctuations in cosmology

12:00 → 12:30 Ivan Agullo - Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge, United States. Quantum aspects of stimulated Hawking radiation on an analog white-black Hole pair

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 Bei-Lok Hu - University of Maryland; College Park, United States. Quantum Fluctuations in Gravity: Gravitational Cat State, Graviton Noise and Stochastic Gravity

14:45 → 15:15 Luca Giacomelli - University of Paris; Paris, France. Toy-model black holes in BECs: quantum superradiance and more 15:15

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 16:30 Larry Ford (Remote talk) - Tuft University; Medford, United States. Analog Models for Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations

16:30 → 17:00 Maxime Jacquet - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel - Sorbonne University; Paris, France. Vacuum quantum excitation of the quasi-normal modes of an analogue black hole in a polariton fluid

17:00 → 17:20 Poster Session

Hugo Candan, University of Edinburgh - Detecting quantum noise in primordial gravitational waves

Riccardo Falcone, Sapienza Roma - Observing single-particles beyond the Rindler horizon

Kevin Falque, Kastler Brossel Laboratory - Experimental investigation of quasi-normal modes and Hawking effect in a polariton fluid

Moatasem Hassan, University of Edinburgh - Entangelment Entropy in the Early Universe

Haruna Katayama, Hiroshima University - A soliton black hole using SNAILs

Bettina Beverungen, Humboldt University of Berlin - Fluctuation-induced interactions in non-trivial geometries

Tuesday 28 June

09:00 → 09:45 Jeff Steinhauer - Technion; Haifa, Israel. Hawking radiation in the presence of two analogue horizons

09:45 → 10:30 Ian Moss - Newcastle University; Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. The hot big bang in a cold gas

10:30 → 11:00 Elisabeth Giacobino - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel - Sorbonne University; Paris, France. Analog gravity and Hawking effect in a quantum fluid of light

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Fabio Biancalana - Heriot-Watt University; Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Nonlinear Optics and the Holographic Principle

12:00 → 12:30 Gregory Kaplanek - Imperial College London; London, United Kingdom. Decoherence in de Sitter space

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 Gabriele Ferrari - University of Trento; Trento, Italy. Observation of Massless and Massive Collective Excitations in a Two-Component Superfluid

14:45 → 15:15 David Bermudez - Cinvestav; Mexico City, Mexico. Effective Michelson interference observed in fiber-optical analogue of Hawking radiation

15:15 → 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 → 16:30 Daniele Faccio - University of Glasgow; Glasgow, United Kingdom. Fundamental phenomena in a rotating world

16:30 → 17:00 Cisco Gooding - University of Nottingham; Nottingham, United Kingdom. Detecting the Unruh Effect in an Analogue

17:00 → 17:30 Friedrich König - University of St. Andrews; St. Andrews, United Kingdom. Optical Soliton Analogue of Black Hole Quasinormal Mode Oscillations

19:30 → 21:30 Social dinner (Amber restaurant, 354 Castlehill)

Wednesday 29 June

09:00 → 09:45 Miles Blencowe - Dartmouth College; Hanover, United States. Analogue gravity with optomechanical circuit systems

09:45 → 10:30 Silke Weinfurtner - University of Nottingham; Nottingham, United Kingdom. Preheating experiments

10:30 → 11:00 Francesco Intravaia - Humboldt University of Berlin; Berlin, Germany. On the physics of Quantum Friction

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 12:00 Jibril Ben Achour - Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics; Munich, Germany. From gravity to fluid mechanics via dynamical symmetries

12:00 → 12:30 Thomas Colas - Paris-Saclay University; Paris, France. Cosmological Master Equations

12:30 → 13:00 Final discussions & Conclusions - Chairs: Iacopo Carusotto, S. Giulio Butera, Suddho Brahma

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch