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JOINT ICTP-SISSA COLLOQUIUM

16:30, Thursday, 5 July 2012
Main Lecture, Hall Leonardo Building



Bill Unruh
(University of British Columbia)


Measurement of the Hawking Temperature for an Analog Horizon






Hawking's prediction that black holes would radiate due to a quantum
instability near the horizon has a much wider applicability. A group at
UBC has for the first time  measured the process, in that case for a
horizon for surface waves in water and shown the quantum emission is
thermal, with temperature related to the properties of the horizon, as for
black holes.