Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 822–825 (2000)Relativistic Effects of Light in Moving Media with Extremely Low Group VelocityReceived 22 June 1999; published in the issue dated 31 January 2000 A moving dielectric medium acts as an effective gravitational field on light. One can use media with extremely low group velocities [Lene Vestergaard Hau et al., Nature (London) 397, 594 (1999)] to create dielectric analogs of astronomical effects on Earth. In particular, a vortex flow imprints a long-ranging topological effect on incident light and can behave like an optical black hole. © 2000 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.822
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.822
PACS:
42.50.Gy, 04.20.-q
See AlsoComment: Matt Visser, Comment on “Relativistic Effects of Light in Moving Media with Extremely Low Group Velocity”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5252 (2000). Reply: U. Leonhardt and P. Piwnicki, Leonhardt and Piwnicki Reply:, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5253 (2000). |
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