Optics of Rotating Systems

Abstract

Electrodynamics of rotating systems is expected to exhibit novel nonlocal features that come about when acceleration-induced nonlocality is introduced into the special relativity theory in conformity with the Bohr-Rosenfeld principle. The implications of nonlocality for the amplitude and frequency of electromagnetic radiation received by uniformly rotating observers are investigated.

8 pages, dedicated to the memory of John A. Wheeler, v2: slightly expanded version accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. A