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.
Cite
@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