Interaction of a circularly polarised gravitational wave with a charged particle in a static magnetic background

preprint2014arXivOpen access

Abstract

Interaction of a charged particle in a static magnetic background, i.e., a Landau system with circularly polarised gravitational wave (GW) is studied quantum mechanically in the long wavelength and low velocity limit. We quantize the classical Hamiltonian following \cite{speli}. The rotating polarization vectors of the circularly polarized GW are employed to form a unique directional triad which served as the coordinate axes. The Schrodinger equations for the system are cast in the form of a set of coupled linear differential equations. This system is solved by iterative technique. We compute the time-evolution of the position and momentum expectation values of the particle. The results show that the resonance behaviour obtained earlier\cite{emgw_classical} by classical treatements of the system has a quantum analogue not only for the linearly polarized GW \cite{emgw_1_lin}, but for circularly polarized GW as well.

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