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The conventional approach of embedding an effective acoustic metric for sound motion in a background flat Minkowski space-time, has recently been extended to incorporate more general curved background metrics, which might contain a black…

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We consider the explicit analytic behaviour of photon escape cones in generic static spherically symmetric spacetimes, emphasizing the interplay between the physical spacetime metric and the optical metric, and the interplay between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-29 Joshua Baines , Matt Visser

A binary mixture of ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs) was used for the design of a channel waveguide. The FLCs possess two important functionalities: a chromophore with a high hyperpolarizability $\beta$ and photoreactive groups. The…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Valentina S. U. Fazio , S. T. Lagerwall , V. Zauls , S. Schrader , P. Busson , A. Hult , H. Motschmann

The wormhole contribution to the gravitational path integral may be interpreted as smooth remnant of correlations among the erratic large-$N$ behaviors of dual CFTs. In this work, we investigate this idea in (2+1)-dimensional gravity. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-28 Qi-Feng Wu

The propagation of an electromagnetic wave in a medium with a screw dislocation is studied. Adopting the formalism of differential forms, it is shown that torsion is responsible for quantized modes. Moreover, it is demonstrated that the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-17 Sébastien Fumeron , Erms Pereira , Fernando Moraes

We consider the properties of a static axially symmetric wormhole described by an exact solution of Einstein's field equations and investigate how we can distinguish such a hypothetical object from a black hole. To this aim, we explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-09 Bakhtiyor Narzilloev , Daniele Malafarina , Ahmadjon Abdujabbarov , Bobomurat Ahmedo , Cosimo Bambi

We have studied the optical properties of metallic nanoparticles with arbitrary shape. We performed theoretical calculations of the absorption, extinction and scattering efficiencies, which can be directly compared with experiments, using…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan Sosa , Cecilia Noguez , R. G. Barrera

Optical modes of a multilayered photonic structure with the twisted nematic liquid crystal as a defect layer have been investigated. The electroconvective flow in the nematic makes a spatially periodic structure in the form of abnormal…

We reexamine the light deflection by an Ellis wormhole. The bending angle as a function of the ratio between the impact parameter and the throat radius of the wormhole is obtained in terms of a complete elliptic integral of the first kind.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-20 Koki Nakajima , Hideki Asada

The curved geometry of a spacetime manifold arises as a solution of Einstein's gravitational field equation. We show that the metric of a spherically symmetric gravitational field configuration can be viewed as an optical metric created by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri N. Obukhov

A new type of metal-dielectric composites has been proposed that is characterised by a resonance-like behaviour of the effective permeability in the infrared and visible spectral ranges. This material can be referred to as optomagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 L. V. Panina , A. N. Grigorenko , D. P. Makhnovskiy

In this work we study timelike circular orbits and photon orbits at the throat of stationary and axisymmetric wormholes. Our minimal requirements on the spacetime are the existence of a global radial coordinate l, which connects both sides…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-13 Kristian Gjorgjieski , Jutta Kunz , Petya Nedkova

With the present and soon-to-be breakthrough of optical interferometry, countless objects shall be within reach of interferometers; yet, most of them are expected to remain only marginally resolved with hectometric baselines. In this paper,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Regis Lachaume

Wormholes are one of the most interesting topological features in spacetime, offering a rat run between two vastly separated regions of the universe. In this paper, we study the deflection angle of light by wormholes, which are supported by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Kimet Jusufi , Ali Övgün , Ayan Banerjee , İzzet Sakallı

The geometry of a two-dimensional surface in a curved space can be most easily visualized by using an isometric embedding in flat three-dimensional space. Here we present a new method for embedding surfaces with spherical topology in flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Mihai Bondarescu , Miguel Alcubierre , Edward Seidel

We study the optical paths of the light rays propagating inside a nonlinear moving dielectric media. For the rapidly moving dielectrics we show the existence of a distinguished surface which resembles, as far as the light propagation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 V. A. De Lorenci , R. Klippert , Yu. N. Obukhov

In the present work we search for a new wormhole solution inspired by noncommutative geometry with the additional condition of allowing conformal Killing vectors (CKV). A special aspect of noncommutative geometry is that it replaces…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-15 Farook Rahaman , Sreya Karmakar , Indrani Karar , Saibal Ray

Many optical measurement techniques, such as light scattering from wavelength-scale particles or detecting motion from a surface with an optical lever, encode information in a complex radiation pattern. Extracting all available information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Youssef Tawfik , Shan Hao , Thomas P. Purdy

The properties of the hollow beam produced by a conical lens are studied in detail. In particular, the impact of a rounded vertex is examined. It is shown that it could lead to drastic changes in the transverse distribution of the hollow…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-07 Benoit Depret , Philippe Verkerk , Daniel Hennequin

The prospect of identifying wormholes by investigating the shadows of wormholes constitute a foremost source of insight into the evolution of compact objects and it is one of the essential problems in contemporary astrophysics. The nature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-02 Farook Rahaman , Ksh. Newton Singh , Rajibul Shaikh , Tuhina Manna , Somi Aktar