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Analog black holes in flowing dielectrics

M. Novello, S. Perez Bergliaffa, J. Salim, V. De Lorenci, R. Klippert

gr-qcarXiv:gr-qc/0201061

Abstract

We show that a flowing dielectric medium with a linear response to an external electric field can be used to generate an analog geometry that has many of the formal properties of a Schwarzschild black hole for light rays, in spite of birefringence. We also discuss the possibility of generating these analog black holes in the laboratory.

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