Analogy between thermal emission of nano objects and Hawking's radiation

Karl Joulain (1)

1 PPrime [Poitiers] - Institut Pprime [UPR 3346]

We analyze in this work some analogies between thermal emission of nano objects and Hawking's radiation. We first focus on the famous expression of the black hole radiating temperature derived by Hawking in 1974 and consider the case of thermal emission of a small aperture made into a cavity (Ideal Blackbody). We show that an expression very similar to Hawking's temperature determines a temperature below which an aperture in a cavity cannot be considered as standard blackbody radiating like T^4. Hawking's radiation therefore appear as a radiation at a typical wavelength which is of the size of the horizon radius. In a second part, we make the analogy between the emission of particle-anti particle pairs near the black hole horizon and the scattering and coupling of thermally populated evanescent waves by a nano objects. We show here again that a temperature similar to the Hawking temperature determines the regimes where the scattering occur or where it is negligible.

Domaines: Thermique [physics.class-ph]; Optique [physics.optics]; Micro et nanotechnologies/Microélectronique; Electromagnétisme; Optique / photonique

Karl Joulain. Analogy between thermal emission of nano objects and Hawking's radiation. 2018. ⟨hal-01860367⟩