One of the comments on the article says "This was not done in a lab. No light was observed. The research was for a theoretical study of a model. Good work, tho

One of the comments on the article says "This was not done in a lab. No light was observed. The research was for a theoretical study of a model. Good work, tho. See "Thermalization by a synthetic horizon" Lotte Mertens, Ali G. Moghaddam, Dmitry Chernyavsky, Corentin Morice, Jeroen van den Brink, and Jasper van Wezel. https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.043084 https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev..." Edit: this is the only relevant mention of an academic paper on the linked article