Dumb holes in vehicular traffic

• Grant number: 19/18616-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: March 01, 2020
• End date: February 28, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Elementary Particle Physics and Fields
• Principal Investigator: George Emanuel Avraam Matsas
• Grantee: Luanna Karen de Souza
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física Teórica (IFT). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de São Paulo. São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Semiclassical gravity has been able to make solid predictions of quantum phenomena in gravitational environments and, more recently, by the prediction of analogous effects on condensed matter systems. This year it was announced the first experimental realization of a Hawking radiation analog in a Bose-Einstein condensate. In this project, we propose to investigate the formation of black hole analogs in vehicular traffic environments. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DE SOUZA, LUANNA K.; MATSAS, GEORGE E. A.. Black-hole analog in vehicular traffic. American Journal of Physics, v. 90, n. 9, p. 5-pg., 2022-09-01. (19/18616-4)