A Michelson interferometer in the field of a plane gravitational wave

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dc.creatorPoplawski, Nikodem J.
dc.date2005-03-16
dc.date2006-07-21
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dc.descriptionWe treat the problem of a Michelson interferometer in the field of a plane gravitational wave in the framework of general relativity. The arms of the interferometer are regarded as the world lines of the light beams, whose motion is determined by the Hamilton-Jacobi equation for a massless particle. In the case of a weak monochromatic wave we find that the formula for the delay of a light beam agrees with the result obtained by solving the linearized coupled Einstein-Maxwell equations. We also calculate this delay in the next (quadratic) approximation.
dc.description13 pages, 2 figures; published version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0503066
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0503066
dc.identifierJ.Math.Phys.47:072501,2006
dc.identifierdoi:10.1063/1.2212670
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/221002
dc.subjectGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.subjectMathematical Physics
dc.titleA Michelson interferometer in the field of a plane gravitational wave
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