Transformation Optics for the Modelling of Waves in a Universe with Nontrivial Topology

arXiv2011.09547MaRDI QIDQ6354064FDOQ6354064

Authors: T. Balehowsky, M. Lassas, Pekka Pankka, Ville Sirviö 

Publication date: 18 November 2020

Abstract: We consider how transformation optics and invisibility cloaking can be used to construct models in subsets $mathbb{R}^3$ with a varying metric, where the time-harmonic waves for a given angular wavenumber $k$, are equivalent to the waves in some closed orientable manifold. The obtained models could in principle be physically implemented using a device built from metamaterials. In particular the measurements in the metamaterial device given by the Helmholtz source-to-solution operator are equivalent to Helmholtz source-to-solution measurements in a universe given by $(mathbb{R}_{+}imesM,-d{t}^2+g)$, where $(M,g)$ is a closed, orientable, $C^{i}nfty$-smooth, 3-dimensional Riemannian manifold. Thus the obtained construction could be used to simulate cosmological models using metamaterial devices.

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