Weakly gravitating isotropic waveguides
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2022-10-03 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We analyse the effect of post-Newtonian gravitational fields on propagation of light in a cylindrical waveguide in both a straight configuration and a spool configuration. We derive an equation for the dependence of the wave vector upon the vertical location of the waveguide. It is shown that the gravitational field produces a small shift in the wave vector, which we determine, while the spooling creates additional modes which could perhaps be measurable in future accurate experiments.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.04156,
title = {Weakly gravitating isotropic waveguides},
author = {Robert Beig and Piotr T. Chruściel and Christopher Hilweg and Philipp Kornreich and Philip Walther},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.04156},
year = {2022}
}
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35 pages, 1 figure