Calculation of permittivity tensors for invisibility devices by effective medium approach in general relativity

TL;DR

This paper derives permittivity tensors for various invisibility device geometries using an effective medium approach within general relativity, revealing unique features like points and lines of infinite light speed.

Contribution

It provides analytical expressions for permittivity tensors of invisibility cloaks with elliptic, spheroid, and paraboloid shapes, incorporating general relativity effects.

Findings

Points of infinite light speed become two points in physical space for elliptic cylinders.

Line of infinite light speed appears in spheroid and paraboloid geometries.

Third component of permittivity tensor becomes singular at the cloak line.

Abstract

Permittivity tensors of arbitrary shaped invisibility devices are obtained using effective medium approach in general relativity. As special cases, analytical expressions for the permittivity tensors of invisibility cloaks for the elliptic cylinder, prolate spheroid, and the confocal paraboloid geometry are derived. In the case of elliptic cylinder, we found that the point of infinite light speed in the electromagnetic space becomes two points in the physical space in the zz component of the permittivity tensor. This result is different from the case of perfect cylinder in which there is a line of cloak at which the speed of light becomes infinite. In the cases of prolate spheroid and confocal paraboloid, the point of infinite light speed in the electromagnetic space becomes line in the physical space for the first two tensor components and the third component of the permittivity tensor becomes singular at the line of cloak.