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Title: Analogue Black Holes in Reactive Molecules
We show that reactive molecules with a unit probability of reaction naturally provide a simulator of some intriguing black hole physics. The unit reaction at the short distance acts as an event horizon and delivers a one-way traffic for matter waves passing through the potential barrier when two molecules interact by high partial-wave scatterings or dipole-dipole interactions. In particular, the scattering rate as a function of the incident energy exhibits a thermal-like distribution near the maximum of the interaction energy in the same manner as a scalar field scatters with the potential barrier outside the event horizon of a black hole. Such a thermal-like scattering can be extracted from the temperature-dependent two-body loss rate measured in experiments on KRb and other molecules.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2110614
PAR ID:
10450628
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
Chinese Physics Letters
Volume:
40
Issue:
5
ISSN:
0256-307X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
050401
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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