Dr Igor Smolyaninov，a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a recipient of the Scientific American 50 Award. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1985 and received his PhD in 1990 from the Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences，He has published more than 400 journal and conference papers and patents in various areas of surface optics，plasmonics，and electromagnetic metamaterials，and served as a principal investigator/technical lead on a number of NSF，CRDF and DARPA programs. He is a topical editor of Journal of the Optical Society of America B and a member of the editorial board of Scientific Reports （Nature Publishing Group），Journal of Optical Physics，and the Open Nanomedicine Journal. Science News magazine has recognized his recent research on hyperbolic metamaterials among the 2011 Science News of the Year. He is also the author of Hyperbolic Metamaterials，another book in the Concise Physics series.

Preface
Acknowledgements
Author Biography
1 Electromagnetic metamaterials， plasmonics and transformation optics
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2 Modeling of time with metamaterials： metamaterial models of the Big Bang， the 'end of time'， and the fractal time
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3 Nonlinear optics of the metamaterial ' spacetime： quantum hyper-computing and time crystals
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4 Metamaterial multiverse
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5 Metamaterial multiverse experiments in ferrofluids
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6 Spacetime melting： microscopic observations of topological defects in Minkowski spacetime
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7 Modeling of exotic space-times with metamaterials： the Alcubierre warp drive and the dark energy
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8 Vacuum in a strong magnetic field as a hyperbolic metamaterial
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9 Concluding remarks
10 编辑手记