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9 September 2019 Giant Unruh effect in hyperbolic metamaterial waveguides (Conference Presentation)
Igor I. Smolyaninov
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Proceedings Volume 11080, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2019; 110801N (2019) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530101
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2019, San Diego, California, United States
Abstract
The Unruh effect is the prediction that an accelerating object perceives its surroundings as a bath of thermal radiation even if it accelerates in vacuum. The Unruh effect is believed to be very difficult to observe in the experiment, since an observer accelerating at g=9.8 m/s2 should see vacuum temperature of only 4x10^-20 K. Here we demonstrate that photons in metamaterial waveguides may behave as massive quasi-particles accelerating at up to 10^24 g, which is about twelve orders of magnitude larger than the surface acceleration near a stellar black hole. These record high accelerations, which may be created in terrestrial laboratories, will enable experimental studies of the Unruh effect.
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Igor I. Smolyaninov "Giant Unruh effect in hyperbolic metamaterial waveguides (Conference Presentation)", Proc. SPIE 11080, Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2019, 110801N (9 September 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2530101
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Metamaterials
Waveguides
Photons
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