Relativistic Effects of Light in Moving Media with Extremely Low Group Velocity

1999/06/30 by U. Leonhardt, Ulf Leonhardt, P. Piwnicki · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #cond-mat.soft

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.84.822

Physical Review Letters (accepted)

arxiv created 1999/12/13 · openalex publication_date 2000/01/31 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

A moving dielectric medium acts as an effective gravitational field on light. One can use media with extremely low group velocities [Lene Vestergaard Hau et al., Nature (London) 397, 594 (1999)] to create dielectric analogs of astronomical effects on Earth. In particular, a vortex flow imprints a long-ranging topological effect on incident light and can behave like an optical black hole.

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