Relativistic Effects of Light in Moving Media with Extremely Low Group Velocity
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-31 v3
Abstract
A moving dielectric medium acts as an effective gravitational field on light. One can use media with extremely low group velocities [Lene Vestergaard Hau et al., Nature 397, 594 (1999)] to create dielectric analogs of astronomical effects on Earth. In particular, a vortex flow imprints a long-ranging topological effect on incident light and can behave like an optical black hole.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9906332,
title = {Relativistic Effects of Light in Moving Media with Extremely Low Group Velocity},
author = {U. Leonhardt and P. Piwnicki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9906332},
year = {2009}
}
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Physical Review Letters (accepted)