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Wei-Can Syu

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arXiv2026

Dynamical Love numbers of analogue rotating black and white holes

We calculate the dynamical tidal response coefficients (TRCs) of 2+1D analogue black and white holes generated by draining and fountaining bathtub flows, respectively. The parameter space is characterized by the frequency and azimuthal number of the Fourier modes and the rotation of the analogue black or white hole. In general, the TRC is a complex-valued function of these parameters. Its real and imaginary parts are defined as the tidal Love number (TLN) and the tidal dissipation coefficient (TDC), respectively. The TRC of the analogue black hole (ABH) exhibits several interesting features. At certain points in the parameter space, including the static case of vanishing perturbation frequency, the TLN exhibits logarithmic running, while the TDC vanishes. Unlike in Einstein gravity, fluid dynamics allows for the physical existence of an analogue white hole (AWH) event horizon. Time-independent, torque-free, barotropic, inviscid, axisymmetric fluid dynamical equations can yield a pair of transonic background flow solutions. The solutions in the pair, corresponding to an ABH-AWH pair, share the same angular momentum and Bernoulli constant but have opposite mass flow rates, all of which are conserved quantities. For such an ABH-AWH pair, the TRC of the AWH is the complex conjugate of the TRC of the ABH.

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arXiv2025

Regge poles of analogous rotating black holes in binary Bose-Einstein condensates: The gapped excitations

In this paper, we study the spectrum of the Regge poles (RPs), which are the counterparts of quasinormal modes, in a draining bathtub vortex within a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) system. We study the gapped excitations of the condensate with the spatially dependent energy gap term using a spatially tunable Rabi coupling, which will be treated as a perturbation. This model serves as an analogue of a rotating black hole surrounded by an environmental mass shell. We first compute the semiclassical scattering amplitude with the spatially independent mass effect due to the orbital interference. In the case of the mass-shell, bifurcation of the spectrum is observed, resulting in the destabilization of the RPs. We also study the migration of RPs by shifting the bump position. Our results show that the RPs of the co-rotating modes exhibit greater stability than those of the counter-rotating modes. Large migration and overtaking jumps of the overtone (fundamental RP) leave an imprint on the scattering amplitude at small (large) scattering angles. This can be observed in the scattering interference pattern in experiments.

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arXiv2024

Acoustic quasibound states and tachyonic instabilities from binary Bose-Einstein condensates

We consider two-component Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) and introduce the BEC vortex in $1+2$ dimensions. We focus on two types of gapped excitations induced by the modes of two-component BECs with relative phases of $0$ and $\pi$, analogous to the massive scalar field with positive and negative mass squared, respectively. The inclusion of space-dependent Rabi coupling can induce an effective space-dependent mass term. We study superradiant instabilities resulting from the quasibound states corresponding to positive mass squared and the tachyonic instabilities arising from negative mass squared in both the frequency and time domains. These instabilities resemble two possible mechanisms that make Kerr black holes unstable in scalar-tensor gravity with the presence of matter around the black hole. Our proposed phenomena could potentially be implemented in future experiments, drawing from the success of recent analog rotating black hole implementations.

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arXiv2023

Analogous Hawking radiation from gapped excitations in a transonic flow of binary Bose-Einstein condensates

We have studied analytically the approximate solutions to the gapped mode equations in the hydrodynamic regime for a class of binary Bose-Einstein condensate acoustic black holes. The horizon from the transonic flow is formed by manipulating the phonon sound speed and the flow velocity with the experimentally accessible parameters. The asymptotic modes of various scattering processes are constructed from which to obtain scattering coefficients and then to further decompose the field operator in terms of the asymptotic states. Also, the Unruh state is introduced to be the appropriate state for the description of gravitational collapse of the black hole. The particle densities of the outgoing modes are computed. The effective energy gap term in the dispersion relation of the gapped excitations introduces the threshold frequency $ω_r$ in the subsonic regime, below which the propagating modes do not exist. Thus, the particle spectrum of the analogous Hawking modes in the exterior of the horizon of the subsonic region significantly deviates from that of the gapless cases near the threshold frequency due to the modified graybody factor, which vanishes as the mode frequency is below $ω_r$. However, in the interior region of the horizon of the supersonic region, the spectrum of the particle production of the Hawking partner has the nonthermal feature. The correlators between the analog Hawking mode and its partner of relevance to the experimental observations are also investigated and show some peaks near the threshold frequency $ω_r$ resulting from the gap energy term to be seen in future experiments.

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arXiv2022

Analogous Hawking radiation and quantum entanglement in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates: the gapped excitations

The condensates of cold atoms at zero temperature in the tunable binary Bose-Einstein condensate system are studied with the Rabi transition between atomic hyperfine states where the system can be represented by a coupled two-field model of gapless excitations and gapped excitations. We set up the configuration of the supersonic and subsonic regimes with the acoustic horizon between them in the elongated two-component Bose-Einstein condensates, trying to mimic Hawking radiations, in particular due to the gapped excitations. The simplified step-like sound speed change is adopted for the subsonic-supersonic transition so that the model can be analytically treatable. The effective energy gap term in the dispersion relation of the gapped excitations introduces the threshold frequency $ω_\text{min}$ in the subsonic regime, below which the propagating modes do not exist. Thus, the particle spectrum of the Hawking modes significantly deviates from that of the gapless cases near the threshold frequency due to the modified grey-body factor, which vanishes as the mode frequency is below $ω_\text{min}$. The influence from the gapped excitations to the quantum entanglement of the Hawking mode and its partner of the gapless excitations is also studied according to the Peres-Horodecki-Simon (PHS) criterion. It is found that the presence of the gapped excitations will deteriorate the quantumness of the pair modes of the gapless excitations when the frequency of the pair modes in particular is around $ω\sim ω_\text{min}$. On top of that, when the coupling constant between the gapless and gapped excitations becomes large enough, the huge particle density of the gapped excitations in the small $ω$ regime will significantly disentangle the pair modes of the gapless excitations. The detailed time-dependent PHS criterion will be discussed.

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arXiv2021

Entanglement of quantum oscillators coupled to different heat baths

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of two coupled oscillators interacting with their own heat baths of quantum scalar fields at different temperature $T_1$ and $T_2$ with bilinear couplings between them. We particularly focus on the entanglement or inseparability property of their quantum states. The critical temperatures of two respective oscillators, $T_{1c}$ and $T_{2c}$, higher than which the entanglement disappears, can be determined. It is found that when two damping parameters are largely different, say $γ_1 \ll γ_2$, the critical temperature $T_{1c}$ with respect to the frequency $Ω_+$, the higher frequency among two normal modes frequencies, can be very large, $T_{1c} \gg Ω_+$, while $T_{2c} \propto Ω_+$ with the possibility of hot entanglement. The entanglement of two oscillators with the temperature-dependent damping parameters $γ_{1;2,T}$ from heat baths is also discussed.

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arXiv2020

Regular and chaotic behavior of collective atomic motion in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates

We theoretically study binary Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in a single-well harmonic potential to probe the dynamics of collective atomic motion. The idea is to choose tunable scattering lengths through Feshbach resonances such that the ground-state wave function for two types of the condensates are spatially immiscible where one of the condensates, located at the center of the potential trap, can be effectively treated as a potential barrier between bilateral condensates of the second type of atoms. In the case of small wave function overlap between bilateral condensates, one can parametrize their spatial part of the wave functions in the two-mode approximation together with the time-dependent population imbalance $z$ and the phase difference $ϕ$ between two wave functions. The condensate in the middle can be approximated by a Gaussian wave function with the displacement of the condensate center $ξ$. As driven by the time-dependent displacement of the central condensate, we find the Josephson oscillations of the collective atomic motion between bilateral condensates as well as their anharmonic generalization of macroscopic self-trapping effects. In addition, with the increase in the wave function overlap of bilateral condensates by properly choosing tunable atomic scattering lengths, the chaotic oscillations are found if the system departs from the state of a fixed point. The Melnikov approach with a homoclinic solution of the derived $z,\,ϕ$, and $ξ$ equations can successfully justify the existence of chaos. All results are consistent with the numerical solutions of the full time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equations.

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arXiv2020

Quantum loop effects to the power spectrum of primordial perturbations during ultra slow-roll inflation

We examine the quantum loop effects on the single-field inflationary models in a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmological space-time with a general self-interacting scalar field potential, which is modeled in terms of the Hubble flow parameters in the effective field theory approach. In particular, we focus on the scenarios in both slow-roll to ultra-slow-roll (SR-USR) and SR-USR-SR inflation, in which it is shown that density perturbations originated from quantum vacuum fluctuations can be enhanced at small-scales, and then potentially collapse into primordial black holes (PBHs). Here our estimates indicate significant one-loop corrections around the peak of the density power spectrum in both scenarios. The induced large quantum loop effects should be confirmed by a more formal quantum field theory, and, if so, should be treated in a self-consistent manner that will be discussed.

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arXiv2019

Analogue stochastic gravity phenomena in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates: Sound cone fluctuations

We investigate the properties of the condensates of cold atoms at zero temperature in the tunable binary Bose-Einstein condensate system with a Rabi transition between atomic hyperfine states. We use this system to examine the effect of quantum fluctuations in a tunable quantum gas on phonon propagation. We show that the system can be represented by a coupled two-field model of a gapless phonon and a gapped mode, which are analogous to the Goldstone and Higgs particles in particle physics. We then further trace out the gapped modes to give an effective purely phononic theory using closed-time-path formalism. In particular, we are interested in the sound cone fluctuations due to the variation of the speed-of-sound acoustic metric, induced by quantum fluctuations of the gapped modes. These fluctuations can be interpreted as inducing a stochastic space-time, and thus are regarded as analogue phenomena of light cone fluctuations presumably arising from quantum gravity effects. The effects of fluctuations can be displayed in the variation in the travel time of sound waves. We suggest the relevant experiments to discuss the possibility of experimental observations.

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