title: Metric signature transitions in optical metamaterials.
abstract: We demonstrate that the extraordinary waves in indefinite metamaterials experience an (--++) effective metric signature. During a metric signature change transition in such a metamaterial, a Minkowski space-time is created together with a large number of particles populating the space-time. Such metamaterial models provide a tabletop realization of metric signature change events suggested to occur in Bose-Einstein condensates and quantum gravity theories.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
authors.forename: Igor I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Smolyaninov
authors.forename: Evgenii E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Narimanov