An electromagnetic analogue of gravitational wave memory
Abstract
We present an electromagnetic analogue of gravitational wave memory. That is, we consider what change has occurred to a detector of electromagnetic radiation after the wave has passed. Rather than a distortion in the detector, as occurs in the gravitational wave case, we find a residual velocity (a ‘kick’) to the charges in the detector. In analogy with the two types of gravitational wave memory (‘ordinary’ and ‘nonlinear’) we find two types of electromagnetic kick.
- Publication:
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Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Pub Date:
- October 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0264-9381/30/19/195009
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1307.5098
- Bibcode:
- 2013CQGra..30s5009B
- Keywords:
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- General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
- E-Print:
- doi:10.1088/0264-9381/30/19/195009