Optical Instabilities and Spontaneous Light Emission by Polarizable Moving Matter

One of the most extraordinary manifestations of the coupling of the electromagnetic field and matter is the emission of light by charged particles passing through a dielectric medium: the Vavilov-Cherenkov effect. Here, we theoretically predict that a related phenomenon may be observed when neutral...

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Main Author: Mário G. Silveirinha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014-07-01
Series:Physical Review X
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031013