Analog black holes in flowing dielectrics

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates that flowing dielectrics with linear response can create analog black hole geometries for light, offering a potential laboratory setup to study black hole-like phenomena.

Contribution

It introduces a method to generate analog black holes using flowing dielectrics with linear response, expanding experimental possibilities.

Findings

Analog black hole geometries can be formed in flowing dielectrics.

The setup can mimic Schwarzschild black hole properties for light.

Laboratory realization of these analogs is discussed.

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.