General relativistic manifestations of orbital angular and intrinsic hyperbolic momentum in electromagnetic radiation

DOI10.1007/S10714-020-02702-1zbMATH Open1443.83011arXiv1807.00933OpenAlexW3033623242MaRDI QIDQ776783FDOQ776783

Authors: J. Strohaber 

Publication date: 13 July 2020

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: General relativistic effects in the weak field approximation are calculated for electromagnetic Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beams. The current work is an extension of previous work on the precession of a spinning neutral particle in the weak gravitational field of an optical vortex. In the current work, the metric perturbation is extended to all coordinate configurations and includes gravitational effects from circular polarization and intrinsic hyperbolic momentum. The final metric reveals frame-dragging effects due to intrinsic spin angular momentum (SAM), orbital angular momentum (OAM), and spin-orbit (SO) coupling. When investigating the acceleration of test particles in this metric, an unreported gravitational phenomenon was found. This effect is analogous to the motion of charged particles in the magnetic field produced by a current carrying wire. It was found that the gravitational influence of SAM and OAM affects test-rays traveling perpendicular to the intense beam and from this a gravitational Aharonov-Bohm analog is pursued.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.00933

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zbMATH Keywords

general relativityspin angular momentumoptical vorticesoptical orbital angular momentum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Equations of motion in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C10) Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05)

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