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Optics of nonuniformly moving media

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Leonhardt, U., Piwnicki, P.·1999·Physical Review A

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A moving dielectric appears to light as an effective gravitational field. At low flow velocities the dielectric acts on light in the same way as a magnetic field acts on a charged matter wave. We develop in detail the geometrical optics of moving dispersionless media. We derive a Hamiltonian and a Lagrangian to describe ray propagation. We elucidate how the gravitational and the magnetic models of light propagation are related to each other. Finally, we study light propagation around a vortex flow. The vortex shows an optical Aharonov-Bohm effect at large distances from the core, and, at shorter ranges, the vortex may resemble an optical black hole.

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Authors
Leonhardt, U., & Piwnicki, P.
Venue
Physical Review A
Published
1999-12-01
Volume
60
Issue
6
Pages
4301-4312
ISSN
  • 0556-2791 (ISSN-L)
  • 1050-2947
  • 1094-1622
OpenAlex
W2226817661
Cited by
198
References
2
FWCI
8.08
Type
journal article
Language
en
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