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del Rio, A.; Agullo, I. |
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Chiral fermion anomaly as a memory effect |
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2023 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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108 |
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We study the nonconservation of the chiral charge of Dirac fields between past and future null infinity due to the Adler-Bell-Jackiw chiral anomaly. In previous investigations [A. del Rio, Phys. Rev. D 104, 065012 (2021)], we found that this charge fails to be conserved if electromagnetic sources in the bulk emit circularly polarized radiation. In this article, we unravel yet another contribution coming from the nonzero, infrared “soft” charges of the external, electromagnetic field. This new contribution can be interpreted as another manifestation of the ordinary memory effect produced by transitions between different infrared sectors of Maxwell theory, but now on test quantum fields rather than on test classical particles. In other words, a flux of electromagnetic waves can leave a memory on quantum fermion states in the form of a permanent, net helicity. We elaborate this idea in both 1 + 1 and 3 + 1 dimensions. We also show that, in sharp contrast, gravitational infrared charges do not contribute to the fermion chiral anomaly. |
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[del Rio, Adrian] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, Dr Moliner 50, Burjassot 46100, Valencia, Spain, Email: adrian.rio@uv.es; |
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Sanchis-Gual, N.; del Rio, A. |
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Precessing binary black holes as engines of electromagnetic helicity |
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2023 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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108 |
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044052 - 11pp |
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We show that binary black hole mergers with precessing evolution can potentially excite photons from the quantum vacuum in such a way that total helicity is not preserved in the process. Helicity violation is allowed by quantum fluctuations that spoil the electric-magnetic duality symmetry of the classical Maxwell theory without charges. We show here that precessing binary black hole systems in astrophysics generate a flux of circularly polarized gravitational waves which, in turn, provides the required helical background that triggers this quantum effect. Solving the fully nonlinear Einstein’s equations with numerical relativity we explore the parameter space of binary systems and extract the detailed dependence of the quantum effect with the spins of the two black holes. We also introduce a set of diagrammatic techniques that allows us to predict when a binary black hole merger can or cannot emit circularly polarized gravitational radiation, based on mirror-symmetry considerations. This framework allows to understand and to interpret correctly the numerical results, and to predict the outcomes in potentially interesting astrophysical systems. |
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del Rio, A.; Ester, E.A. |
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Electrically charged black hole solutions in semiclassical gravity and dynamics of linear perturbations |
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2024 |
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Physical Review D |
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Phys. Rev. D |
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109 |
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105022 - 23pp |
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We explore quantum corrections of electrically charged black holes subject to vacuum polarization effects of fermion fields in QED. Solving this problem exactly is challenging so we restrict to perturbative corrections that one can obtain using the heat kernel expansion in the one -loop effective action for electrons. Starting from the corrections originally computed by Drummond and Hathrell, we solve the full semiclassical Einstein -Maxwell system of coupled equations to leading order in Planck 's constant and find a new electrically charged, static black hole solution. To probe these quantum corrections, we study electromagnetic and gravitational (axial) perturbations on this background and derive the coupled system of Regge-Wheeler master equations that govern the propagation of these waves. In the classical limit, our results agree with previous findings in the literature. We finally compare these results with those that one can obtain by working out the Euler-Heisenberg effective action. We find again a new electrically charged static black hole spacetime and derive the coupled system of Regge-Wheeler equations governing the propagation of axial electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations. Results are qualitatively similar in both cases. We briefly discuss some challenges found in the numerical computation of the quasinormal mode frequency spectra when quantum corrections are included. |
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[del Rio, Adrian] Univ Valencia, Dept Fis Teor, CSIC, Dr Moliner 50, Burjassot 46100, Valencia, Spain, Email: adrian.rio@uv.es; |
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Agullo, I.; del Rio, A.; Navarro-Salas, J. |
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Electromagnetic Duality Anomaly in Curved Spacetimes |
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2017 |
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Physical Review Letters |
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Phys. Rev. Lett. |
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118 |
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111301 - 5pp |
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The source-free Maxwell action is invariant under electric-magnetic duality rotations in arbitrary spacetimes. This leads to a conserved classical Noether charge. We show that this conservation law is broken at the quantum level in the presence of a background classical gravitational field with a nontrivial Chern-Pontryagin invariant, in parallel with the chiral anomaly for massless Dirac fermions. Among the physical consequences, the net polarization of the quantum electromagnetic field is not conserved. |
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[Agullo, Ivan; del Rio, Adrian] Louisiana State Univ, Dept Phys & Astron, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA, Email: agullo@lsu.edu; |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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del Rio, A.; Sanchis-Gual, N.; Mewes, V.; Agullo, I.; Font, J.A.; Navarro-Salas, J. |
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Spontaneous Creation of Circularly Polarized Photons in Chiral Astrophysical Systems |
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2020 |
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Physical Review Letters |
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Phys. Rev. Lett. |
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124 |
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21 |
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211301 - 6pp |
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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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[del Rio, Adrian; Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas] Univ Lisbon, Inst Super Tecn, Ctr Astrofis & Gravitacao CENTRA, Ave Rovisco Pais 1, P-1049001 Lisbon, Portugal |
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IFIC @ pastor @ |
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