Spontaneous Creation of Circularly Polarized Photons in Chiral Astrophysical Systems

Del Rio, Adrian; Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas; Mewes, Vassilios; Agullo, Ivan; Font, Jose A.; Navarro-Salas, Jose

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.211301

Spontaneous Creation of Circularly Polarized Photons in Chiral Astrophysical Systems

Journal Article · Wed May 27 00:00:00 EDT 2020 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.211301· OSTI ID:1632075

Del Rio, Adrian ^[1]; Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas ^[1]; ^[2]; Agullo, Ivan ^[3]; Font, Jose A. ^[4]; Navarro-Salas, Jose ^[4]

Univ. of Lisbon (Portugal)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Rochester Inst. of Technology, Rochester, NY (United States)
Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States)
Univ. of Valencia (Spain)

This work establishes a relation between chiral anomalies in curved spacetimes and the radiative content of the gravitational field. In particular, we show that a flux of circularly polarized gravitational waves triggers the spontaneous creation of photons with net circular polarization from the quantum vacuum. Using waveform catalogs, we identify precessing binary black holes as astrophysical configurations that emit such gravitational radiation and then solve the fully nonlinear Einstein’s equations with numerical relativity to evaluate the net effect. The quantum amplitude for a merger is comparable to the Hawking emission rate of the final black hole and small to be directly observed. However, the implications for the inspiral of binary neutron stars could be more prominent, as argued on symmetry grounds.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1632075

Journal Information:: Physical Review Letters, Journal Name: Physical Review Letters Journal Issue: 21 Vol. 124; ISSN 0031-9007; ISSN PRLTAO

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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