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| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 024029 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 110 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - 12 Jul 2024 |
Abstract
A gravitational field can cause a rotation of the polarization plane of light. This phenomenon is known as the gravitational Faraday effect. It arises due to different spin-orbit interactions of left- and right-handed circularly polarized components of light. Such an interaction also causes transverse displacement in the light trajectory, in opposite directions for each component. This phenomenon is known as the gravitational spin-Hall effect of light. We study these effects in a local inertial frame in arbitrary vacuum spacetime and show that they are observer dependent and arise due to interaction of light polarization with a local gravitomagnetic field measured by the observer. Thus, to address the effects to a gravitational field alone, one has to consider zero angular momentum observers.
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- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
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In: Physical Review D, Vol. 110, No. 2, 024029, 12.07.2024.
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T1 - Gravitational Faraday and spin-Hall effects of light
T2 - Local description
AU - Shoom, Andrey A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2024 authors. Published by the American Physical Society. Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article's title, journal citation, and DOI. Open access publication funded by the Max Planck Society.
PY - 2024/7/12
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N2 - A gravitational field can cause a rotation of the polarization plane of light. This phenomenon is known as the gravitational Faraday effect. It arises due to different spin-orbit interactions of left- and right-handed circularly polarized components of light. Such an interaction also causes transverse displacement in the light trajectory, in opposite directions for each component. This phenomenon is known as the gravitational spin-Hall effect of light. We study these effects in a local inertial frame in arbitrary vacuum spacetime and show that they are observer dependent and arise due to interaction of light polarization with a local gravitomagnetic field measured by the observer. Thus, to address the effects to a gravitational field alone, one has to consider zero angular momentum observers.
AB - A gravitational field can cause a rotation of the polarization plane of light. This phenomenon is known as the gravitational Faraday effect. It arises due to different spin-orbit interactions of left- and right-handed circularly polarized components of light. Such an interaction also causes transverse displacement in the light trajectory, in opposite directions for each component. This phenomenon is known as the gravitational spin-Hall effect of light. We study these effects in a local inertial frame in arbitrary vacuum spacetime and show that they are observer dependent and arise due to interaction of light polarization with a local gravitomagnetic field measured by the observer. Thus, to address the effects to a gravitational field alone, one has to consider zero angular momentum observers.
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U2 - 10.48550/arXiv.2404.15934
DO - 10.48550/arXiv.2404.15934
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