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Universe, Volume 5, Issue 4

2019 April - 9 articles

Cover Story: The linear magnetoelectric effect, which is known to occur in certain multiferroic materials, results in polarization by magnetic fields and magnetization by electric fields. Here, we study its gravitational analogue, which arises in spacetimes whose metric has nonzero mixed components. Specifically, we show how it depends on the choice of spatial formalism for the electromagnetic fields, including differences in tensor weight, and also on the choice of coordinate chart. This is particularly important since magnetoelectric susceptibility relates the spatial electromagnetic fields. While the effect has long been known for the Kerr spacetime, we illustrate that it arises, perhaps more surprisingly, for the rotating (Langevin) Minkowski spacetime as well as for certain charts of the Schwarzschild spacetime and pp gravitational waves. View this paper.
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Articles (9)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,565 Views
10 Pages

Quantum Complexity and Chaos in Young Black Holes

  • Alexander Y. Yosifov and
  • Lachezar G. Filipov

We argue that the problem of calculating retention time scales in young black holes is a problem of relative state complexity. In particular, we suggest that Alice’s ability to estimate the time scale for a perturbed black hole to release the e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,365 Views
40 Pages

According to the theory of cosmic inflation, the large scale structures observed in our Universe (galaxies, clusters of galaxies, Cosmic Background Microwave—CMB—anisotropy…) are of quantum mechanical origin. They are nothing but v...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,143 Views
8 Pages

The ALICE (A Large Ion Collider Experiment) experiment at CERN will upgrade its Inner Tracking System (ITS) detector. The new ITS will consist of seven coaxial cylindrical layers of ALPIDE silicon sensors which are based on Monolithic Active Pixel Se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,988 Views
14 Pages

For the accretion flow in extremely low-luminosity active galactic nuclei, such as our Galactic center (Sgr A*) and M 87, the collisional mean-free path of ions may be much larger than its gyroradius. In this case, the pressure parallel to the magnet...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,865 Views
16 Pages

The Gravitational Magnetoelectric Effect

  • Gary W. Gibbons and
  • Marcus C. Werner

Electromagnetism in spacetime can be treated in terms of an analogue linear dielectric medium. In this paper, we discuss the gravitational analogue of the linear magnetoelectric effect, which can be found in multiferroic materials. While this is know...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,073 Views
13 Pages

We study a general relativistic gravitomagnetic 3-body effect induced by the spin angular momentum S X of a rotating mass M X orbited at distance r X by a local gravitationally bound restricted two-body system S of size...

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Universe - ISSN 2218-1997