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In this paper we review some properties for the evolving wormhole solution of Einstein equations coupled with nonlinear electrodynamics. We integrate the geodesic equations in the effective geometry obeyed by photons; we check out the weak…

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In this work, we have studied the behavior of null geodesics within a rotating wormhole space-time in non-magnetized pressure-less plasma. By focusing on the dispersion relation of the plasma and disregarding its direct gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-21 Saurabh Kumar , Akhil Uniyal , Sayan Chakrabarti

Optical sections of the cornea are obtained by illumination with a collimated beam expanded in a fan shape by a small rotary cylindrical lens. The light diffused from the cornea is observed by two cameras and processed in order to yield the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jose B. Almeida , Sandra Franco

We study black hole imaging in the context of geometrically thick accretion disks in Schwarzschild spacetime. By decomposing the emitting region into a set of one-dimensional luminous segments, each characterized by its inclination angle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Zi-Liang Wang

We provide a holographic interpretation of a class of three-dimensional wormhole spacetimes. These spacetimes have multiple asymptotic regions which are separated from each other by horizons. Each such region is isometric to the BTZ black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-15 Kostas Skenderis , Balt C. van Rees

Classical mechanics and geometrical optics are deeply connected with each other. In this work, we generalize the analogy between these two disciplines to relativistic conditions. Using this analogy, we are able to make light follow the…

Optics · Physics 2024-09-09 Hui Xiong , Mengcheng Zhu

The present work deals with a spherically symmetric space-time which is asymptotically (at spatial infinity) FRW space-time and represents wormhole configuration: The matter component is divided into two parts--(a) dissipative but…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-27 Supriya Pan , Subenoy Chakraborty

We firstly revisit the importance, naturalness and limitations of the so-called optical metrics for describing the propagation of light rays in the limit of geometric optics. We then exemplify their flexibility and nontriviality in some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-17 Eduardo Bittencourt , Jonas P. Pereira , Igor Smolyaninov , Vera N. Smolyaninova

We investigate the evolution of the apparent horizons in a numerically gererated worm hole spacetime. The behavior of the apparent horizons is affected by the dynamics of the matter field. By using the local mass of the system, we interpret…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Yasusada Nambu , Masaru Siino

A recent study by Rahaman et al. has shown that the galactic halo possesses the necessary properties for supporting traversable wormholes, based on two observational results, the density profile due to Navarro et al. and the observed flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-25 Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

Topological defects are an essential part of the structure and dynamics of all liquid crystals, and they are particularly important in experiments and simulations on active liquid crystals. In a recent paper, Vromans and Giomi [Soft Matter,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-08-23 Xingzhou Tang , Jonathan V. Selinger

Beginning with a brief review of the regular space-time with asymptotically Minkowski core, we can consider two copies of the space-time connected through a short-throat wormhole whose radius of mouth is equal to or larger than an extremal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-14 Wei Hong , Jun Tao , Tong-Jie Zhang

We examine the properties of a new family of defects called hyperbolic disclinations, and discuss their possible use for the design of perfect optical absorbers. In hyperbolic metamaterials, the ratio of ordinary and extraordinary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Sébastien Fumeron , Bertrand Berche , Fernando Santos , Erms Pereira , Fernando Moraes

We describe new configurations of electromagnetic (EM) material parameters, the electric permittivity $\epsilon$ and magnetic permeability $\mu$, that allow one to construct from metamaterials objects that function as invisible tunnels.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Allan Greenleaf , Yaroslav Kurylev , Matti Lassas , Gunther Uhlmann

By using a method improved with a generalized optical metric, the deflection of light for an observer and source at finite distance from a lens object in a stationary, axisymmetric and asymptotically flat spacetime has been recently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-08 Toshiaki Ono , Asahi Ishihara , Hideki Asada

We consider a technique of calculating deflection of the light passing through wormholes (from one universe to another). We find fundamental and characteristic features of electromagnetic radiation passing through the wormholes. Making use…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Alexander Shatskiy

We consider the space of geodesic laminations on a surface, endowed with the Hausdorff metric d_H and with a variation of this metric called the d_log metric. We compute and/or estimate the Hausdorff dimensions of these two metrics. We also…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Xiaodong Zhu , Francis Bonahon

We provide a prescription of real feasible sources that supply fuel to construct a traversable wormhole. A class of exact solutions for Einstein-Maxwell field equations describing wormhole with an anisotropic matter distribution has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-18 F. Rahaman , M. Kalam , K. A. Rahman

A large class of flat big bang - big crunch cosmologies with negative cosmological constant are related by analytic continuation to asymptotically AdS traversable wormholes with planar cross section. In recent works (arXiv: 2102.05057,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Stefano Antonini , Petar Simidzija , Brian Swingle , Mark Van Raamsdonk

We show how to use quantum metrology to detect a wormhole. A coherent state of the electromagnetic field experiences a phase shift with a slight dependence on the throat radius of a possible distant wormhole. We show that this tiny…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-07 Carlos Sabín