Molecular analogue for scalar dynamics in a tachyonic metric

TL;DR

This paper proposes using the hydrogen molecule ion as a molecular analogue to study scalar field dynamics in a tachyonic gravitational background, providing a new experimental approach to explore hypothetical faster-than-light particles.

Contribution

The work introduces a novel molecular analogue model using hydrogen molecule ions to simulate scalar dynamics in a tachyonic spacetime modeled by an AII metric.

Findings

Hydrogen molecule ion can mimic scalar wave functions in a tachyonic spacetime.

Computed quasinormal modes and Hawking radiation spectra for the analogue system.

External potentials enhance the fidelity of the molecular analogue to the theoretical model.

Abstract

Tachyons are hypothetical particles that propagate faster than light, yet they have never been observed in nature or in the laboratory. In this work, we introduce the hydrogen molecule ion as an analogue for the dynamics of a spinless test particle interacting with the gravitational field generated by a tachyon. The tachyonic spacetime is modeled using an AII metric, and the problem is analyzed through the Klein-Gordon equation for a scalar field in this background. We compute the quasinormal modes and the Hawking radiation spectrum associated with the system. By introducing an external potential, we demonstrate that both the radial and angular components of the test particles wave function can be effectively reproduced by the electron dynamics in the hydrogen molecule ion, thus proposing a molecular analogue model for an extreme gravitational system.