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An angular rainbow of light from curved spacetime

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2022-01-11 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory Optics

Abstract

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.

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@article{arxiv.2201.00224,
  title  = {An angular rainbow of light from curved spacetime},
  author = {Alexei A. Deriglazov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.00224},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

04 pages, Phys. Lett. A, published version. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2103.07794

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