

Black hole analogues were first considered by W. While the dynamical Casimir effect has been experimentally verified, direct experimental investigations for the two latter theoretical predictions are more challenging. Such particle creation is predicted to take place under various conditions such as the dynamical Casimir effect and related circumstances, during the expansion of the universe, or due to the presence of a black hole’s event horizon. A more direct access could be accomplished by converting the virtual particles into directly observable real ones. Their existence is indirectly observable via the modification of the electron’s magnetic moment or the Lamb shift of an atomic spectrum. The ubiquitous presence of vacuum fluctuations is arguably one of the most surprising effects of quantum theory. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. We acknowledge support by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and Saarland University within the funding programme Open Access Publishing. Taketani also acknowledges support from Fapesc - "Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Estado de Santa Catarina" ( ) and CNPq INCT-IQ (465469/2014-0) - "Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico" ( ). This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.įunding: This work was partially supported by the European Union through the project ScaleQIT - "Scalable Superconducting Processors for Entangled Quantum Information Technology" ( ). Received: JAccepted: JanuPublished: March 6, 2020Ĭopyright: © 2020 Schmit et al. Max-Planck-Institut fur Physik komplexer Systeme, GERMANY

Citation: Schmit RP, Taketani BG, Wilhelm FK (2020) Quantum simulation of particle creation in curved space-time.
