2002/01/31 by M. Novello, Santiago Esteban Perez Bergliaffa, S. Perez Bergliaffa +5 · 49 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Birefringence #Black hole (networking) #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dielectric #Electric field #Field (mathematics) #General relativity #Gravitation #Gravitational wave #Hawking radiation #Optics #Physics #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum mechanics #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #Schwarzschild metric #Schwarzschild radius #Theoretical physics #White hole #gr-qc #physics.optics
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0264-9381/20/5/306
published in Classical and Quantum Gravity 20(5), 859-871 (IOP Publishing) · Revtex4 file, 7 pages, 4 eps figures, a few changes in presentation, some references added, conclusions unchanged
arxiv created 2003/01/21 · openalex publication_date 2003/02/14 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · arxiv updated 2017/08/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We show that a flowing dielectric medium with a linear response to an external electric field can be used to generate an analogue geometry that has many of the formal properties of a Schwarzschild black hole for light rays, in spite of birefringence. The surface gravity of this analogue black hole has a contribution that depends only on the dielectric properties of the fluid (in addition to the usual term dependent on the acceleration). This term may give a hint at a new mechanism to increase the temperature of Hawking radiation.