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Transformation optics that mimics the system outside a Schwarzschild black hole

Optics 2011-08-17 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We applied the transformation optics to mimic a black hole of Schwarzschild form. Similar properties of photon sphere were also found numerically for the metamaterial black hole. Several reduced versions of the black hole systems were proposed for easier implementations.

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@article{arxiv.0912.4856,
  title  = {Transformation optics that mimics the system outside a Schwarzschild black hole},
  author = {Huanyang Chen and Rong-Xin Miao and Miao Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.4856},
  year   = {2011}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures