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Gravitational waves are messengers carrying valuable information about their sources. For sources at cosmological distances, the waves will contain also the imprint left by the intervening matter. The situation is in close analogy with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-13 Pablo Laguna , Shane L. Larson , David Spergel , Nicolas Yunes

We present an idea for detecting gravitational waves (GWs) by measuring the current induced in a superconducting loop by the rotation of a frame to which it is attached. The frame experiences a torque caused by a GW propagating…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-04-24 A. Gulian , J. Foreman , V. Nikoghosyan , L. Sica , J. Tollaksen , S. Nussinov

We study thin films that host coexisting collinear $d$-wave altermagnetic and superconducting orders in the presence of an external magnetic field that fully penetrates the films. We use the Ginzburg-Landau functional to analyze the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-09 A. A. Mazanik , Rodrigo de las Heras , F. S. Bergeret

The quantum gravity effects of vacuum polarization of gravitons propagating in a curved spacetime cause the quantum vacuum to act as a dispersive medium with a refractive index. Due to this dispersive medium gravitons acquire superluminal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-11 J. W. Moffat

The refraction is theoretically considered of ultimately short pulses at interface of two dielectrics that contains a thin film of nonlinear metamaterial. For the model of metamaterial composed of nanoparticles and magnetic nanocircuits…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 Sergei Elyutin , Sergei Ozhenko , Andrei Maimistov

Abrikosov vortices, where the superconducting gap is completely suppressed in the core, are dissipative, semi-classical entities that impact applications from high-current-density wires to superconducting quantum devices. In contrast, we…

We derive the linearized Ginzburg-Landau (GL) equation for a curved ultra-thin superconducting film in the presence of a magnetic field. By introducing a novel transverse order parameter that varies slowly along the film with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Long Du , Qinghua Chen , Minsi Li , Jiahong Gu , Guangzhen Kang , Yong-Long Wang

In the established era of dark matter, condensed matter Hamiltonians-including those of superconductors-may require extension to account for the surrounding Galactic environment. We show that if dark matter is wave-like and couples weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Yechan Kim , Hye-Sung Lee , Jiheon Lee , Jaeok Yi

In this paper we consider the properties of the 10 confirmed by the LIGO Collaboration gravitational wave signals from the black hole mergers. We want to explain non-observation of electromagnetic counterpart and higher then expected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-26 Revaz Beradze , Merab Gogberashvili

Gravitational wave (GW) has become one of the most active fields in physics and astronomy since the first direct detection of GW event in 2015. As is well known, multiple images of GW events are possible through the gravitational lenses.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-25 Hao Wei , Da-Chun Qiang , Zhong-Xi Yu , Hua-Kai Deng

Gravitational waves (GWs) are direct probes of cosmological gravity, sensitive to space-time inhomogeneities along their propagation. The presence of massive objects breaks homogeneity and isotropy, allowing for new interactions between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-12 Nicola Menadeo , Serena Giardino , Miguel Zumalacárregui

Spatially resolved transport in two-dimensional quantum materials can reveal dynamics which is invisible in conventional bulk transport measurements. We predict striking patterns in spatially inhomogeneous transport just above the critical…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-04-07 Koushik Ganesan , Andrew Lucas

Spiral waves in excitable media possess both wave-like and particle-like properties. When resonantly forced (forced at the spiral rotation frequency) spiral cores travel along straight trajectories, but may reflect from medium boundaries.…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2013-04-03 Jacob Langham , Dwight Barkley

We have computed the gravitational wave signal from supernova core collapse using the presently most realistic input physics available. We start from state-of-the-art progenitor models of rotating and non-rotating massive stars, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ewald Mueller , Markus Rampp , Robert Buras , H. -Thomas Janka , David H. Shoemaker

It has recently been claimed, with a $4.2 \sigma$ significance level, that gravitational wave echoes at a frequency of about $72$ Hz have been produced in the GW170817 event. The merging of compact stars can lead to the emission of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-27 Massimo Mannarelli , Francesco Tonelli

We analyze the propagation of gravitational waves in a medium containing bounded subsystems ("molecules"), able to induce significant Macroscopic Gravity effects. We establish a precise constitutive relation between the average quadrupole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-26 Giovanni Montani , Fabio Moretti

Nonlinear I-V characteristics have been observed in insulating quench-condensed films which are locally superconducting. We suggest an interpretation in terms of the enhancement of conduction by the depinning of a Cooper pair charge density…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Christiansen , L. M. Hernandez , A. M. Goldman

We consider colliding wave packets consisting of hybrid mixtures of electromagnetic, gravitational and scalar waves. Irrespective of the scalar field, the electromagnetic wave still reflects from the gravitational wave. Some reflection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ozay Gurtug , Mustafa Halilsoy , Ozlem Unver

Matter-wave bright solitons are predicted to reflect from a purely attractive potential well although they are macroscopic objects with classical particle-like properties. The non-classical reflection occurs at small velocities and a…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Chaohong Lee , Joachim Brand

We report the nonreciprocal charge transport along the longitudinal and transverse directions in the vortex flow regime of FeSe superconducting films. Clear nonreciprocal signals under an inplane magnetic field reveals symmetry breaking at…