The Sagnac effect: correct and incorrect explanations
By G. B. Malykin. 2000
228 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Different explanations for the Sagnac effect are discussed. It is shown that this effect is a consequence of the relativistic law of velocity composition and that it can also be explained adequately within the framework of general relativity. When certain restrictions on the rotational velocity are imposed, the Sagnac effect can be attributed to the difference in the time dilation (or phase change) of material particle wave functions in the scalar (or correspondingly vector) gravitational potential of the inertial forces in a rotating reference system for counterpropagating waves. It is also shown that all the nonrelativistic interpretations of the Sagnac effect, which are unfortunately sometimes found in scientific papers, monographs and textbooks, are wrong in principle, even though the results they yield are accurate up to relativistic corrections in some special cases.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Ocean Engineering
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/56e422f6b4edd26d6b63a2c967696d706aa353b1
How researchers see this paper
The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.
In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Citations in the corpus
- Atom Interferometers (2007, background): “where ~ G is the reciprocal lattice-vector of the gratings, and τ is the time of flight for atoms with velocity ~v to travel between gratings (Anandan, 1981; Bongs et al., 2006; Dresden and Yang, 1979; Dubetsky and Kasevich, 2006; Malykin, 2000).”