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The studies of influence of spin on a photon motion in a Schwartzschild spacetime is continued. In the previous paper [2] the first order correction to the geodesic motion is reduced to a non-uniform linear ordinary differential equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. T. Muminov , Z. Ya. Turakulov

We report the results of experimental observation of the influence of light propagation on its polarization under propagation in free space. These results experimentally prove the existence of the mutual influence of light polarization and…

Optics · Physics 2014-10-29 Evelina Bibikova , Nataliya Kundikova

The effect of spin of particles in the propagation of plasma waves is studied using a semi-classical kinetic theory for a magnetized plasma. We focus in the simple damping effects for the electrostatic wave modes besides Landau damping.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-05-17 Pablo S. Moya , Felipe A. Asenjo

Gravitational lensing by rotating extended deflectors is discussed. Due to spin, corrections on image positions, caustics and critical curves can be significant. In order to obtain realistic quantitative estimates, the lens is modeled as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Sereno

In this paper we report the results of a thorough numerical study of the motion of spinning particles in Kerr spacetime with different prescriptions. We first evaluate the Mathisson-Papapetrou equations with two different spin supplementary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-19 Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Jonathan Seyrich , Daniela Kunst

We study causality in gravitational systems beyond the classical limit. Using on-shell methods, we consider the one-loop corrections from charged particles to the photon energy-momentum tensor - the self-stress - that controls the quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-08 Brando Bellazzini , Giulia Isabella , Matthew Lewandowski , Francesco Sgarlata

In this paper we have investigated the gravitational lensing in a spherically symmetric spacetime with torsion in the generalized Einstein-Cartan-Kibble-Sciama (ECKS) theory of gravity by considering higher order terms. The torsion…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-07 Lu Zhang , Songbai Chen , Jiliang Jing

Gravitational waves can act like gravitational lenses, affecting the observed positions, brightnesses, and redshifts of distant objects. Exact expressions for such effects are derived here in general relativity, allowing for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-26 Abraham I. Harte

This paper investigates the use of gravitational time delays of macro-lenses to constrain a possible photon mass. The time delay between the 2 compact images of a source of massive photons is computed. Explicit expressions are given for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 J-F. Glicenstein

We show that the first moment of the spin-dependent structure function $g_1^{\gamma}(x,Q^2)$ of a real photon vanishes independent of the momentum transfer $Q^2$ it is probed with. This result is non-perturbative: it holds to all orders in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 Steven D. Bass , Stanley J. Brodsky , Ivan Schmidt

We propose the gravitational analog of the chiroptical effect for the first time, demonstrating that gravitational waves (GWs) can induce a reversal of photon chirality through the exchange of angular momentum, namely the spin-2-gravitation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Haorong Wu , Xilong Fan

We derive in this an expression for the rotation of plane of polarization, of an electromagnetic wave, induced by the field of a gravitational wave propagating along the same direction $\approx \f{G\mu d^2\Omega^4}{3\o}$, $\o$ and $\Omega$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-17 A. R. Prasanna , S. Mohanty

The Kapitza-Dirac effect, which refers to electron scattering at standing light waves, is studied in the Bragg regime with counterpropagating elliptically polarized electromagnetic waves with the same intensity, wavelength, and degree of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Rico Erhard , Heiko Bauke

The Eisenbud-Wigner-Smith (EWS) time delay of photoemission depends on the phase term of the matrix element describing the transition. Because of an interference process between partial channels, the photoelectrons acquire a spin…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-12 Mauro Fanciulli , J. Hugo Dil

A new representation, which does not contain the third-order derivatives of the coordinates, of the exact Mathisson-Papapetrou-Dixon equations, describing the motion of a spinning test particle, is obtained under the assumption of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Roman Plyatsko , Oleksandr Stefanyshyn , Mykola Fenyk

The comparison of the polarization and spin of light is presented in the paper. It is shown that it is more easier and clearer to use the polarization of the light to explain the effect of the interaction of light and atoms than that of…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-12 Guihua Tian

Waves propagating through a gravitational potential exhibit wave-optics effects when their wavelength is not significantly smaller than the lensing scales. We study the propagation of a scalar wave, governed by the Klein-Gordon equation in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-16 Emma Bruyère , Cyril Pitrou

We explore the impact of corrections to the propagation on the waveforms of gravitationally lensed gravitational waves under the geometrical optics approximation, focusing on both uniform cosmological modifications and local modifications…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-03 Hiroki Takeda , Takahiro Tanaka

We discuss polarization of gravitational radiation within the standard framework of linearized general relativity. The recent experimental discovery of gravitational waves provides the impetus to revisit the implications of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-22 Bahram Mashhoon , Sohrab Rahvar

A network of large-scale laser interferometers is currently employed for searches of gravitational waves from various astrophysical sources. The frequency dependence of the dynamic response of these detectors introduces corrections to their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-22 Malik Rakhmanov