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Ted Jacobson Maryland The Hawking effect at a black hole event horizon can be mimicked for condensed matter quasiparticles in inhomogeneous backgrounds. Such analogies may help to understand the roles played by a short distance cutoff and quantum fluctuations of the black hole background. They may also offer laboratory observations of the Hawking effect. Superfluid helium-3A provides some promising candidates for such a black hole model.
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