Metric Signature Transitions in Optical Metamaterials
Jul, 201016 pages
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- 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
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- condensation: Bose-Einstein
- space-time: Minkowski
- signature: transition
- quantum gravity
- space-time: signature
- critical phenomena
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