Spin Hall effect of light in inhomogeneous axion field

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135968zbMATH Open1475.83140arXiv2011.09334OpenAlexW3098811760MaRDI QIDQ820442FDOQ820442

Authors: Mansoureh Hoseini, M. Mehrafarin 

Publication date: 27 September 2021

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the spin transport of light in weakly inhomogeneous axion field in a flat Robertson-Walker universe and derive the spin Hall effect for circularly polarized rays. Regarding primordial quantum fluctuations of the axion field in the de Sitter phase as the origin of the inhomogeneity, we show that the conformal invariance of the correlator determines the root-mean-square (r.m.s) fluctuations of the path of circularly polarized cosmic rays. We explain how the r.m.s fluctuations can be experimentally determined.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.09334

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zbMATH Keywords

conformal invariancespin Hall effectaxion electrodynamicscosmological birefringenceinflation theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Classes of solutions; algebraically special solutions, metrics with symmetries for problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C20) Asymptotic procedures (radiation, news functions, (mathcal{H} )-spaces, etc.) in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C30) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

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