A liquid crystal analogue of the cosmic string
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2016-08-31 v1 Astrophysics
Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
We consider the propagation of light in a anisotropic medium with a topological line defect in the realm of geometrical optics. It is shown that the effective geometry perceived by light propagating in such medium is that of a spacial section of the cosmic string spacetime.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0509091,
title = {A liquid crystal analogue of the cosmic string},
author = {Caio Sátiro and Fernando Moraes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0509091},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
3 pages, 2 figures. Modern Physics Letters A, accepted for publication