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We report a systematic rotation of the plane of polarization of electromagnetic radiation propagating over cosmological distances. The effect is extracted independently from Faraday rotation, and found to be correlated with the angular…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Borge Nodland , John P. Ralston

The design of far-field radiation diagrams from combined electric and magnetic dipolar sources has recently found applications in nanophotonic metasurfaces that realize tailored reflection and refraction. Such dipolar sources also exhibit…

We study the precession caused by electromagnetic radiation on a magnetic dipole located far from the source. As we show, this entails a net rotation of the dipole in the plane orthogonal to the direction of wave propagation, providing an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-01 Blagoje Oblak , Ali Seraj

We discuss the propagation of electromagnetic waves on a rectangular lattice of polarizable point dipoles. For wavelengths long compared to the lattice spacing, we obtain the dispersion relation in terms of the lattice spacing and the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Gutkowicz-Krusin , B. T. Draine

It is commonly believed that photon polarisation entanglement can only be obtained via pair creation within the same source or via postselective measurements on photons that overlapped within their coherence time inside a linear optics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Yuan Liang Lim , Almut Beige

We show that atomic alignment presents a reliable way to study topology of astrophysical magnetic fields. The effect of atomic alignment arises from modulation of the relative population of the sublevels of atomic ground state pumped by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Huirong Yan , A. Lazarian

The polarization properties of monochromatic light beams are studied. In contrast to the idealization of an electromagnetic plane wave, finite beams which are everywhere linearly polarized in the same direction do not exist. Neither do…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 John Lekner

We consider the polarization characteristics of the electromagnetic (EM) counterpart of the gravitational wave (GW) created by coalescence of the binary sources. Here, we explore the impact of the photon-graviton interaction on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-27 Soroush Shakeri , Alireza Allahyari

A general form of the polarization matrix valid for any type of electromagnetic radiation (plane waves, multipole radiation etc.) is defined in terms of a certain bilinear form in the field-strength tensor. The quantum counterpart is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Muhammet Ali Can , Alexander S. Shumovsky

Inhomogeneities can influence the polarisation emerging from a synchrotron source. However, it is shown that the frequency distribution of circular polarisation is only marginally affected, although its magnitude may change substantially.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 C. -I. Bjornsson

Since the opacity of a magnetized plasma depends on polarization of radiation, the radiation emergent from atmospheres of neutron stars with strong magnetic fields is expected to be strongly polarized. The degree of linear polarization,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 G. G. Pavlov , V. E. Zavlin

In this work, we derive two formulas encoding the polarization direction and luminosity of synchrotron radiations from the moving electrons in curved spacetime under the geometric optics approximation. As an application, we further study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Zezhou Hu , Yehui Hou , Haopeng Yan , Minyong Guo , Bin Chen

An understanding of cosmic magnetism requires converting the polarization properties of extragalactic radio sources into the rest-frame in which the corresponding polarized emission or Faraday rotation is produced. Motivated by this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-02 J. S. Farnes , B. M. Gaensler , E. Carretti

We study the influence of the polarization angle of linear radiation on the radiation-induced magnetoresistance oscillations in two-dimensional electron systems and examine the polarization immunity on the temperature and quality of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Jesus Inarrea

A new model of physically realizable electromagnetic source is proposed. The source is partially coherent and non-uniformly totally polarized. The coherence and polarization characteristics of this new source are analyzed. The spatial…

Singular optics aims to understand and manipulate light's topological defects, pioneered by the discovery that phase vortex lines, strands of destructive interference, naturally occur in scalar wave fields. Monochromatic electromagnetic…

The polarization of radiation by scattering on an atom embedded in combined external quadrupole electric and uniform magnetic fields is studied theoretically. Analytic formulae are derived for the scattering phase matrix. Limiting cases of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yee Yee Oo , K. N. Nagendra , Sharath Ananthamurthy , G. Ramachandran

The intense magnetic fields of neutron stars naturally lead to strong anisotropy and polarization of radiation emanating from their surfaces, both being sensitive to the hot spot position on the surface. Accordingly, pulse phase-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Matthew G. Baring , Hoa Dinh Thi , George A. Younes , Kun Hu

Polarization wiggling is an observational effect of a gravitational field on the polarization of electromagnetic radiation traversing it. We find that in linear gravity, the polarization wiggle rate contributions from scalar, vector and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-27 Kjell Tangen

We obtain the dipolar anisotropies in the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays diffusing from nearby extragalactic sources. We discuss both the energy regime of spatial diffusion and the quasi-rectilinear one leading to just…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-06-11 Diego Harari , Silvia Mollerach , Esteban Roulet