caa a22 4500 445369582 CHVBK 20180317142942.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00340-011-4628-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00340-011-4628-7 Longhi S. Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy aut Classical simulation of relativistic quantum mechanics in periodic optical structures [Elektronische Daten] [S. Longhi] Spatial and/or temporal propagation of light waves in periodic optical structures offers a unique possibility to realize in a purely classical setting the optical analogues of a wide variety of quantum phenomena rooted in relativistic wave equations. In this work a brief overview of a few optical analogues of relativistic quantum phenomena, based either on spatial light transport in engineered photonic lattices or on temporal pulse propagation in Bragg grating structures, is presented. Examples include spatial and temporal photonic analogues of the Zitterbewegung of a relativistic electron, Klein tunneling, vacuum decay and pair production, the Dirac oscillator, the relativistic Kronig-Penney model, and optical realizations of non-Hermitian extensions of relativistic wave equations. Springer-Verlag, 2011 Applied Physics B Springer-Verlag 104/3(2011-09-01), 453-468 0946-2171 104:3<453 2011 104 340 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-011-4628-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00340-011-4628-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Longhi S. Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza L. da Vinci 32, 20133, Milano, Italy aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Applied Physics B Springer-Verlag 104/3(2011-09-01), 453-468 0946-2171 104:3<453 2011 104 340 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer