An optical wormhole from hollow disclinations
Optics
2021-02-17 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We examine the optical properties of two different configurations of an ordered liquid crystal film on a catenoid forming coreless disclinations. We find the effective optical metric from which we obtain the geodesics and wave modes characterizing thus the propagation of light on this surface. We show that the optical metric describes a two-dimensional section of the spacetime of a conical wormhole.
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@article{arxiv.2010.11894,
title = {An optical wormhole from hollow disclinations},
author = {Frankbelson dos S. Azevedo and José Diêgo M. de Lima and Antônio de Pádua Santos and Fernando Moraes},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.11894},
year = {2021}
}