A liquid crystal analogue of the cosmic string
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🌀 gr-qc
astro-phcond-mat.soft
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cosmiclightmediumstringanalogueanisotropicconsidercrystal
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We consider the propagation of light in a anisotropic medium with a topological line defect in the realm of geometrical optics. It is shown that the effective geometry perceived by light propagating in such medium is that of a spacial section of the cosmic string spacetime.
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