Exploring the weakest and the strongest gravity by twisted light

报告摘要

Black holes and gravitational waves are two important predictions of classical general relativity, and are thus the crucial tests of gravitation theories. In a rotating gravitational field produced by a Kerr black hole, the coupling between the macroscopic rotation of black hole and the angular momentum of photon can not only distort the orbital motion of the photon, and also produces an additional nor-integrable phase, leading to the wavefront distortion of the light coming from near the black hole. On the other hand, it was found that there is a dipole interaction between twisted lights and gravitational waves, which make photos undergoing dipole transitions between different orbital-angular-momentum eigenstates. In this talk, I will discuss these two effects and their astronomical implications, in particular the detection of strongest gravitational fields produced by spinning black holes and the weakest gravitational fields in gravitational waves.

报告人

冯珑珑 教授 (中山大学)

报告人介绍

冯珑珑 - 中山大学物理与天文学院教授,财政部“国外引进杰出人才计划”(中国科学院百人计划)、国家杰出青年基金获得者,享受国务院政府特殊津贴。 1982年毕业于中国科学技术大学物理系, 1990年在南京大学天文系获得博士学位; 曾在中国科学技术大学、紫金山天文台任教,长期从事相对论天体物理、星系天文学和宇宙学的研究工作。目前主持基金委重点项目“恒星形成星系中的重子循环和动力学演化: 解析和数值模拟研究”和科技部重点研发项目“面向空间引力波探测的致密天体波源物理和天文学研究”。

地点

物理学院新楼5楼多功能厅

时间

2021年6月1日下午2点

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