21 papers
Flyby-induced displacement: analytic solution
P. -M. Zhang, Z. K. Silagadze, P. A. Horvathy
The motion of particles hit by a burst of gravitational waves generated by flyby admits, for the derivative-of-the-Gaussian profile, only a numerical description. The profile can h…
Scaling and conformal symmetries for plane gravitational waves
P. -M. Zhang, M. Cariglia, M. Elbistan +1
The isometries of an exact plane gravitational wave are symmetries for both massive and massless particles. Their conformal extensions are in fact chrono-projective transformations…
Ion Traps and the Memory Effect for Periodic Gravitational Waves
P. -M. Zhang, M. Cariglia, C. Duval +3
The Eisenhart lift of a Paul Trap used to store ions in molecular physics is a linearly polarized periodic gravitational wave. A modified version of Dehmelt's Penning Trap is in tu…
Hidden symmetries of a self-dual monopole
L. Feher, P. Horvathy, L. O'Raifeartaigh
The symmetries of a spinning particle in the field of a self-dual monopole are studied from the viewpoint of supersymmetric quantum mechanics.
Displacement memory for flyby
P. -M. Zhang, Q. -L. Zhao, J. Balog +1
Zel'dovich and Polnarev, in their seminal paper [1] suggested that a gravitational wave generated by flyby would merely displace the particles. We confirm their prediction numerica…
The non-Abelian Aharonov-Bohm effect
P. A. Horvathy
The scattering of a nucleon beam around a cylinder containing a non-Abelian flux is studied. We confirm all the previsions of Wu and Yang. We consider the generalization to the gau…