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Analogue Hawking Radiation In A Dc-Squid Array Transmission Line, P D. Nation, M. P. Blencowe, A. J. Rimberg, E. Buks

Dartmouth Scholarship

We propose the use of a superconducting transmission line formed from an array of dc-SQUID’s for investigating analogue Hawking radiation. Biasing the array with a space-time varying flux modifies the propagation velocity of the transmission line, leading to an effective metric with an horizon. Being a fundamentally quantum mechanical device, this setup allows for investigations of quantum effects such as back-reaction and analogue space-time fluctuations on the Hawking process.