An exact expression for photon polarization in Kerr geometry

DOI10.4310/ATMP.2014.V18.N3.A3MaRDI QIDQ485862zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Anusar Farooqui, Niky Kamran, Prakash Panangaden

Publication date 14 January 2015

Published in Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.6292, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.atmp/1414762187

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electromagnetic fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C50)

Abstract: We analyze the transformation of the polarization of a photon propagating along an arbitrary null geodesic in Kerr geometry. The motivation comes from the problem of an observer trying to communicate quantum information to another observer in Kerr spacetime by transmitting polarized photons. It is essential that the observers understand the relationship between their frames of reference and also know how the photon's polarization transforms as it travels through Kerr spacetime. Existing methods to calculate the rotation of the photon polarization (Faraday rotation) depend on choices of coordinate systems, are algebraically complex and yield results only in the weak-field limit. We give a closed-form expression for a parallel propagated frame along an arbitrary null geodesic using Killing-Yano theory, and thereby solve the problem of parallel transport of the polarization vector in an intrinsic, geometrically-motivated fashion. The symmetries of Kerr geometry are utilized to obtain a remarkably compact expression for the geometrically induced phase of the photon's polarization. We show that this phase vanishes on the equatorial plane and the axis of symmetry.

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