Metric Signature Transitions in Optical Metamaterials

Jul, 2010
16 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.Lett. 105 (2010) 067402
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Abstract: (arXiv)
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.
Note:
  • 16 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters
  • 78.20.Ci
  • 42.25.Bs
  • 04.50.-h
  • condensation: Bose-Einstein
  • space-time: Minkowski
  • signature: transition
  • quantum gravity
  • space-time: signature
  • critical phenomena