Metric Signature Transitions in Optical Metamaterials
Optics
2014-11-21 v1 Quantum Gases
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We demonstrate that the extraordinary waves in indefinite metamaterials experience (- - + +) effective metric signature. During a metric signature change transition in such a metamaterial, a Minkowski space-time is "created" together with large number of particles populating this space-time. Such metamaterial models provide a table top realization of metric signature change events suggested to occur in Bose-Einstein condensates and quantum gravity theories.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1007.1130,
title = {Metric Signature Transitions in Optical Metamaterials},
author = {Igor I. Smolyaninov and Evgenii E. Narimanov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.1130},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
16 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters