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First order phase transitions (FOPTs) constitute an active area of contemporary research as a promising cosmological source of observable gravitational waves. The spacetime dynamics of the background scalar field undergoing the phase…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-14 Bibhushan Shakya

We compute classical gravitational bremsstrahlung from the gravitational scattering of two massless particles at leading order in the (center of mass) deflection angle $\theta\sim 4 G \sqrt{s}/b = 8 G E/b \ll 1$. The calculation, although…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-18 Andrei Gruzinov , Gabriele Veneziano

We present a Fisher-matrix forecast for the detectability of a stochastic gravitational wave background generated by a first-order phase transition in the early universe. We use the DECIGO and LISA missions as reference cases. The source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-07 Diego Rios , William H. Kinney

We investigate how the production of gravitational waves (GWs) is affected by the GW velocity $(c_T)$ during preheating after inflation. For instance, we simulate the production of GWs after $\lambda\phi^4$ chaotic inflation, and find that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-16 Ke Wang , Qing-Guo Huang

The power spectrum of a homogeneous and isotropic stochastic variable, characterized by a finite correlation length, does in general not vanish on scales larger than the correlation scale. If the variable is a divergence free vector field,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chiara Caprini , Ruth Durrer

We study the properties of the gravitational wave (GW) signals produced by first order phase transitions during the inflation era. We show that the power spectrum of the GW oscillates with its wave number. This signal can be observed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-18 Haipeng An , Kun-Feng Lyu , Lian-Tao Wang , Siyi Zhou

Gravitational waves are perturbations in the spacetime that propagate at the speed of light. The study of such phenomenon is interesting because many cosmological processes and astrophysical objects, such as binary systems, are potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-27 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

The next generation of gravitational wave detectors holds out the prospect of detecting a stochastic gravitational background generated in the very early universe. In this article, we review the various cosmological processes which can lead…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 R. A. Battye , E. P. S. Shellard

We study the gravitational wave spectrum from the confinement-deconfinement phase transi-tion in the holographic QCD models for both light quark and heavy quark. We obtain the gravitationalwave spectrum in the deflagration, detonation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-27 Meng-Wei Li , Yi Yang , Pei-Hung Yuan

In this paper, we investigate the generation of gravitational waves (GWs) from a first-order QCD confinement-deconfinement phase transition under external magnetic field from holography. We analyze the GWs spectra across both hard wall and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-24 Man-Man Sun , Man-Li Tian , Zhou-Run Zhu

We compute the stochastic gravitational wave production from Affleck-Dine condensate fragmentation in the early universe, focusing on an effective potential with a logarithmic mass correction that typically arises in gravity mediated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-12 Shuang-Yong Zhou

We examine the time evolution of the frequencies of the gravitational wave after the bounce within the framework of relativistic linear perturbation theory using the results of one dimensional numerical simulations of core-collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-14 Hajime Sotani , Tomoya Takiwaki

Gravitational waves have predominantly been detected using interferometric techniques, with standard approaches limited to 10 kHz and with modern advancements extending this bound to 300 kHz. To explore the largely uncharted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Eduard Atonga , Ramy Aboushelbaya , Peter A. Norreys

First-order phase transitions are a source of stochastic gravitational radiation. Precision calculations of the gravitational waves emitted during these processes, sourced by both the degrees of freedom undergoing the transition and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-30 John T. Giblin , James B. Mertens

It has been recently suggested that oscillons produced in the early universe from certain asymmetric potentials continue to emit gravitational waves for a number of $e$-folds of expansion after their formation, leading to potentially…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 Mustafa A. Amin , Jonathan Braden , Edmund J. Copeland , John T. Giblin , Christian Solorio , Zachary J. Weiner , Shuang-Yong Zhou

This paper presents an estimate for the spectral properties of the stochastic background of gravitational waves emitted by a population of hot, young, rapidly rotating neutron stars throughout the Universe undergoing $f$-mode instabilities,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 Marco Surace , Kostas D. Kokkotas , Pantelis Pnigouras

We propose a novel mechanism where a first-order phase transition modulates the decay rate of a massive field. This modulation, even if the scalar field has negligible energy density, subsequently generates an observable stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Xiao-Bin Sui , Jing Liu , Rong-Gen Cai

We place constraints on the normalized energy density in gravitational waves from first-order strong phase transitions using data from Advanced LIGO and Virgo's first, second and third observing runs. First, adopting a broken power law…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 Alba Romero , Katarina Martinovic , Thomas A. Callister , Huai-Ke Guo , Mario Martínez , Mairi Sakellariadou , Feng-Wei Yang , Yue Zhao

We derive some of the central equations governing quantum fluctuations in gravitational waves, making use of general relativity as a sensible effective quantum theory at large distances. We begin with a review of classical gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-06 Mark P. Hertzberg , Jacob A. Litterer

The mean spectrum and burst statistics of gravitational waves produced by a cosmological population of cosmic string loops are estimated using analytic approximations, calibrated with earlier simulations. Formulas are derived showing the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Craig J. Hogan