Fundamental Physics at ACT
Sante Carloni, ACT
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Areas of InterestResearch in Fundamental Physics is focused on the impact that new ideas in physics can have on the space sector.
ACT Fundamental
Physics
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Areas of InterestResearch in Fundamental Physics is focused on the impact that new ideas in physics can have on the space sector.
ACT Fundamental
Physics
Black Hole Physics
Testing Einstein Gravity
Relativistic Positioning Systems.
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Areas of InterestResearch in Fundamental Physics is focused on the impact that new ideas in physics can have on the space sector.
ACT Fundamental
Physics
Debunking Improbable Propulsion Concepts
Black Hole Physics
Testing Einstein Gravity
Relativistic Positioning Systems.
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Areas of InterestResearch in Fundamental Physics is focused on the impact that new ideas in physics can have on the space sector.
ACT Fundamental
Physics
Debunking Improbable Propulsion Concepts
Black Hole Physics
Testing Einstein Gravity
Relativistic Positioning Systems.
Entanglement and other quantum paradoxes
Vacuum energy and Casimir effect
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Areas of InterestResearch in Fundamental Physics is focused on the impact that new ideas in physics can have on the space sector.
ACT Fundamental
Physics
Metamaterials Design
Debunking Improbable Propulsion Concepts
Black Hole Physics
Testing Einstein Gravity
Relativistic Positioning Systems.
Entanglement and other quantum paradoxes
Vacuum energy and Casimir effect
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Areas of InterestResearch in Fundamental Physics is focused on the impact that new ideas in physics can have on the space sector.
ACT Fundamental
Physics
Metamaterials Design
Low energy physics (Soft Matter, etc)
Debunking Improbable Propulsion Concepts
Black Hole Physics
Testing Einstein Gravity
Relativistic Positioning Systems.
Entanglement and other quantum paradoxes
Vacuum energy and Casimir effect
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Areas of InterestResearch in Fundamental Physics is focused on the impact that new ideas in physics can have on the space sector.
ACT Fundamental
Physics
Metamaterials Design
Low energy physics (Soft Matter, etc)
Debunking Improbable Propulsion Concepts
Black Hole Physics
Testing Einstein Gravity
Relativistic Positioning Systems.
Entanglement and other quantum paradoxes
Vacuum energy and Casimir effect
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
MetamaterialsMetamaterials are composite materials with exotic properties. So far two types of metamaterials are most studied:
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
MetamaterialsMetamaterials are composite materials with exotic properties. So far two types of metamaterials are most studied:
{Electromagnetism in vacuum and curved
spacetime
Electromagnetism in flat spacetime
Medium (related to geometry)Diffeomorphism
EM metamaterials
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
MetamaterialsMetamaterials are composite materials with exotic properties. So far two types of metamaterials are most studied:
{Electromagnetism in vacuum and curved
spacetime
Electromagnetism in flat spacetime
Medium (related to geometry)Diffeomorphism
EM metamaterials
{Acoustics in homogeneous and isotropic medium and curved
spacetime
Acoustic in flat spacetime
Non Trivial Medium (related to geometry)
Acoustic metamaterials
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
MetamaterialsMetamaterials are composite materials with exotic properties. So far two types of metamaterials are most studied:
ARIADNA ProjectAlmost finished!
{Electromagnetism in vacuum and curved
spacetime
Electromagnetism in flat spacetime
Medium (related to geometry)Diffeomorphism
EM metamaterials
{Acoustics in homogeneous and isotropic medium and curved
spacetime
Acoustic in flat spacetime
Non Trivial Medium (related to geometry)
Acoustic metamaterials
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
Space technologies are becoming mature enough for a new generation of tests of GR within the Solar System.
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
Space technologies are becoming mature enough for a new generation of tests of GR within the Solar System.
New evidence requires to refine our understanding of the relativistic corrections to Newtonian Celestial Mechanics.
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
Space technologies are becoming mature enough for a new generation of tests of GR within the Solar System.
New evidence requires to refine our understanding of the relativistic corrections to Newtonian Celestial Mechanics.
We revisited the EIH equations for the reduced two (spinning) body problem using a powerful Hamiltonian method.
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
Space technologies are becoming mature enough for a new generation of tests of GR within the Solar System.
New evidence requires to refine our understanding of the relativistic corrections to Newtonian Celestial Mechanics.
We revisited the EIH equations for the reduced two (spinning) body problem using a powerful Hamiltonian method.
We solve exactly for the first time the full 2PN EIH equations.
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
Using our method we reproduce all the known relativistic corrections...
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
Using our method we reproduce all the known relativistic corrections...
Einstein Precession
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
Using our method we reproduce all the known relativistic corrections...
Einstein Precession
Geodetic Effect
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
Using our method we reproduce all the known relativistic corrections...
Einstein Precession
Geodetic Effect
Lens-Thirring Effect
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
In the general case for a Mercury-like planet we have
Axial tilt
Inclination
LJ2
J1
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
In the general case for a Mercury-like planet we have
Axial tilt
Inclination
LJ2
J1
0
5
10
15
20
25
Axial
tilt(!)
h!,0 = 0"
h!,0 = 45"
h!,0 = 90"
h!,0 = 135"
h!,0 = 180"
0 5 10 15 20Time (Ma)
#3.5
#3.0
#2.5
#2.0
#1.5
#1.0
#0.5
0.0
0.5
1.0
!Inclination(!$
10"8)
Axial tilt: 20˚/5 MyrInclination: 3 10-8˚/5 Myr
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
In the general case of a gas giant rotating around a pulsar we have
Axial tilt
Inclination
LJ2
J1
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Relativistic Celestial Mechanics
In the general case of a gas giant rotating around a pulsar we have
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Axi
altilt
(� )
h⇤,0 = 0�
h⇤,0 = 45�
h⇤,0 = 90�
h⇤,0 = 135�
h⇤,0 = 180�
0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160Time (yr)
�10.0
�8.0
�6.0
�4.0
�2.0
0.0
�In
clin
atio
n(�
⇥10
�3)
Axial tilt: 50˚/4 dayrInclination: 9˚/4 dayr
Axial tilt
Inclination
LJ2
J1
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
Perspectives
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
PerspectivesDevelopment of design technique for acoustic metamaterials comparable with the one for EM metamaterials.
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
PerspectivesDevelopment of design technique for acoustic metamaterials comparable with the one for EM metamaterials.
Further develop our new approach to Relativistic Celestial Mechanics to investigate more complex systems.
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
PerspectivesDevelopment of design technique for acoustic metamaterials comparable with the one for EM metamaterials.
Further develop our new approach to Relativistic Celestial Mechanics to investigate more complex systems.
Further refine the RPS concept (see Pacôme presentation).
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
PerspectivesDevelopment of design technique for acoustic metamaterials comparable with the one for EM metamaterials.
Further develop our new approach to Relativistic Celestial Mechanics to investigate more complex systems.
Further refine the RPS concept (see Pacôme presentation).
Some future projects involving:
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
PerspectivesDevelopment of design technique for acoustic metamaterials comparable with the one for EM metamaterials.
Further develop our new approach to Relativistic Celestial Mechanics to investigate more complex systems.
Further refine the RPS concept (see Pacôme presentation).
Some future projects involving:
a new approach to nuclear fusion based on some newly discovered properties of plasmas;
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012
PerspectivesDevelopment of design technique for acoustic metamaterials comparable with the one for EM metamaterials.
Further develop our new approach to Relativistic Celestial Mechanics to investigate more complex systems.
Further refine the RPS concept (see Pacôme presentation).
Some future projects involving:
a new approach to nuclear fusion based on some newly discovered properties of plasmas;
novel wireless power transmission approach based on new aspects of laser physics.
Wednesday, 4 July, 2012