An angular rainbow of light from curved spacetime
We try to go beyond the geometrical optics approximation, by showing that a massless polarized particle allows a wide class of non minimal interactions with an arbitrary gravitational field. One specific example of a curvature-dependent interaction is presented, that results in a frequency-dependent...
| Published in: | Physics letters A Vol. 427. P. 127915 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | http://vital.lib.tsu.ru/vital/access/manager/Repository/koha:001002360 |
| Summary: | We try to go beyond the geometrical optics approximation, by showing that a massless polarized particle allows a wide class of non minimal interactions with an arbitrary gravitational field. One specific example of a curvature-dependent interaction is presented, that results in a frequency-dependent Faraday effect. Even in a Schwarzschild spacetime, this leads to the angular dispersion of polarization planes for a linearly-polarized beam of waves with different frequencies, propagating along the same ray. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
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| ISSN: | 0375-9601 |