Analogue holographic correspondence in optical metamaterials

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA

Received: 18 December 2014
Accepted: 14 March 2015

Abstract

We assess the prospects of using metamaterials for simulating various aspects of analogue gravity and holographic correspondence. Albeit requiring a careful engineering of the dielectric media, some hallmark features reminiscent of the hypothetical “generalized holographic conjecture” can be detected by measuring non-local optical field correlations. The possibility of such simulated behavior might also shed light on the true origin of those ostensibly holographic phenomena in the condensed-matter systems with emergent effective metrics which may not, in fact, require any reference to the string-theoretical holography.