Analogue black holes for light rays in static dielectrics

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/31/14/145007MaRDI QIDQ5495906zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors V. A. De Lorenci, R. Klippert, M. Novello, E. Bittencourt, J. M. Salim

Publication date 7 August 2014

Published in Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7544

zbMATH Keywords

analogue modelblack holegeneral relativitygeometrical opticsmaterial media

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric optics (78A05) Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Black holes (83C57)

Abstract: Propagation of light in nonlinear materials is here studied in the regime of the geometrical optics. It is shown that a spherically symmetric medium at rest with some specific dielectric properties can be used to produce an exact analogue model for a class of space-times which includes spherically symmetric and static black hole solutions. The optical model here presented can be a useful tool to reproduce in laboratory the behavior of optical null geodesics near a compact object with an observable gravitational Schwarzschild radius.

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