Virtual Black Holes in Hyperbolic Metamaterials

Details Virtual Black Holes in Hyperbolic Metamaterials Virtual Black Holes in Hyperbolic Metamaterials

2011-01-24

arxiv.org/abs/1101.4625v1

Journal of Optics 13, 125101 (2011)

Physics

Optics

11 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

Optical space in electromagnetic metamaterials may be engineered to emulate various exotic space-time geometries. However, these metamaterial models are limited in many respects. It is believed that real physical space-time strongly fluctuates on the Planck scale. These fluctuations are usually described as virtual black holes. Static metamaterial models introduced so far do not exhibit similar behavior. Here we demonstrate that thermal fluctuations of optical space in hyperbolic metamaterials lead to creation of virtual electromagnetic black holes. This effect is very large if the dielectric component of the metamaterial exhibits critical opalescence.

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