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Light experiences a moving medium as an effective gravitational field. In the limit of low medium velocities the medium flow plays the role of a magnetic vector potential. We review the background of our theory [U. Leonhardt and P. Piwnicki, Phys. Rev. A 60, 4301 (1999); Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 822 (2000)], including our proposal of making optical black holes.
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Received: 4 July 2000 / Revised version: 17 October 2000 / Published online: 6 December 2000
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Piwnicki, P., Leonhardt, U. Optics of moving media . Appl Phys B 72, 51–59 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400000512
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