Experimental Modeling of Cosmological Inflation with Metamaterials

Details Experimental Modeling of Cosmological Inflation with Metamaterials Experimental Modeling of Cosmological Inflation with Metamaterials

2011-11-14

arxiv.org/abs/1111.3300v1

Physics

Optics

17 pages, 3 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1107.4053

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Recently we demonstrated that mapping of monochromatic extraordinary light distribution in a hyperbolic metamaterial along some spatial direction may model the flow of time and create an experimental toy model of the big bang. Here we extend this model to emulate cosmological inflation. This idea is illustrated in experiments performed with two-dimensional plasmonic hyperbolic metamaterials. Spatial dispersion which is always present in hyperbolic metamaterials results in scale-dependent (fractal) structure of the inflationary "metamaterial spacetime". This feature of our model replicates hypothesized fractal structure of the real observable universe.

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