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Quantum Mechanics of Hyperbolic Metamaterials: Modeling of Quantum Time and Everett's Universal Wavefunction
Igor I. Smolyaninov
Modern advances in transformation optics and electromagnetic metamaterials made possible experimental demonstrations of highly unusual curvilinear optical spaces, such as various g…
Experimental Modeling of Cosmological Inflation with Metamaterials
Igor I. Smolyaninov, Yu-Ju Hung, Ehren Hwang
Recently we demonstrated that mapping of monochromatic extraordinary light distribution in a hyperbolic metamaterial along some spatial direction may model the flow of time and cre…
Metamaterial model of fractal time
Igor I. Smolyaninov
While numerous examples of fractal spaces may be found in various fields of science, the flow of time is typically assumed to be one-dimensional and smooth. Here we present a metam…
Beyond Stefan-Boltzmann Law: Thermal Hyper-Conductivity
Evgenii E. Narimanov, Igor I. Smolyaninov
We demonstrate that the broadband divergence of the photonic density of states in hyperbolic metamaterials leads to giant increase in radiative heat transfer, beyond the limit set…
Vacuum as a hyperbolic metamaterial
Igor I. Smolyaninov
As demonstrated by Chernodub, vacuum in a strong magnetic field behaves as a periodic Abrikosov vortex lattice in a type-II superconductor. We investigate electromagnetic behavior…
Hyperbolic metamaterial interfaces: Hawking radiation from Rindler horizons and the "end of time"
Igor I. Smolyaninov, Ehren Hwang, Evgenii Narimanov
Extraordinary rays in a hyperbolic metamaterial behave as particle world lines in a three dimensional (2+1) Minkowski spacetime. We analyze electromagnetic field behavior at the bo…