Spinning Test Particle in Four-Dimensional Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet Black Holes

• Published in: Universe (Basel) Vol. 6; no. 8; p. 103
• Main Authors: Zhang, Yu-Peng, Wei, Shao-Wen, Liu, Yu-Xiao
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 28.07.2020
• Subjects: Black holes; Gauss–Bonnet; Gravitational waves; innermost stable circular orbits; Orbits; Spacetime; spinning test particle
• ISSN: 2218-1997; 2218-1997
• DOI: 10.3390/universe6080103

In this paper, we investigate the motion of a classical spinning test particle in a background of a spherically symmetric black hole based on the novel four-dimensional Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet gravity [D. Glavan and C. Lin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)]. We find that the effective potential of a spinning test particle in this background could have two minima when the Gauss–Bonnet coupling parameter α is nearly in a special range −8<α/M2<−2 (M is the mass of the black hole), which means a particle can be in two separate orbits with the same spin-angular momentum and orbital angular momentum, and the accretion disc could have discrete structures. We also investigate the innermost stable circular orbits of the spinning test particle and find that the corresponding radius could be smaller than the cases in general relativity.