The effect of gravitational spin-orbit coupling on the circular photon orbit in the Schwarzschild geometry

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/33/11/115020zbMATH Open1342.83212arXiv1605.06427OpenAlexW2395888157MaRDI QIDQ5741291FDOQ5741291

Authors: Zhi-Yong Wang, Cai-Dong Xiong, Qi Qiu, Yunxiang Wang, Shuang-Jin Shi 

Publication date: 22 July 2016

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The (1, 0)+(0, 1) representation of the group SL(2, C) provides a six-component spinor equivalent to the electromagnetic field tensor. By means of the (1, 0)+(0, 1) description, one can treat the photon field in curved spacetime via spin connection and the tetrad formalism, which is of great advantage to study the gravitational spin-orbit coupling of photons. Once the gravitational spin-orbit coupling is taken into account, the traditional radius of the circular photon orbit in the Schwarzschild geometry should be replaced with two different radiuses corresponding to the photons with the helicities of +1 and -1, respectively. Owing to the splitting of energy levels induced by the spin-orbit coupling, photons (from Hawking radiations, say) escaping from a Schwarzschild black hole are partially polarized, provided that their initial velocities possess nonzero tangential components.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06427

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zbMATH Keywords

tetrad formalismgravitational spin-orbit couplingcircular photon orbit\((1,0)+(0,1)\) representation of the group \(\mathrm{SL}(2, \mathbb C)\)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Black holes (83C57) Spinor and twistor methods in general relativity and gravitational theory; Newman-Penrose formalism (83C60)

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