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Dark photons, which can kinetically mix with ordinary photons, represent the simplest extension to the standard model. Detecting their oscillations with visible photons could provide crucial insights into the nature of dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Yu-Xin Tian , Wenyu Wang , Wen-Na Yang , Bin Zhu

We investigate a new laser scheme by using Ramsey separated-field technique with bad cavity. By studying the linewidth of the stimulated-emission spectrum of this kind of laser inside the cavity, we find its linewidth is more than two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-18 Yang Li , Wei Zhuang , Jinbiao Chen , Hong Guo

A graviton laser works, in principle, by the stimulated emission of coherent gravitons from a lasing medium. For significant amplification, we must have a very long path length and/or very high densities. Black holes and the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-26 Éric Dupuis , M. B. Paranjape

Passive mode-locking critically relies on a saturable loss mechanism to form ultrashort pulses. However, in Kerr-lens mode-locking (KLM), no actual absorption takes place, but rather losses appear due to diffraction, and actual light must…

Optics · Physics 2021-03-10 Idan Parshani , Leon Bello , Mallachi-Elia Meller , Avi Pe'er

Accelerating black holes, connected to cosmic strings could evolve to supermassive black holes. However, if they are going to take part in structure formation and resides at the center of galaxies, their acceleration should be small. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-17 Amjad Ashoorioon , Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh , Robert B. Mann

Accreting black holes produce powerful relativistic plasma jets which emit radiation across all observable wavelengths but the details of the initial acceleration and confinement of the jet are uncertain. We apply an innovative new model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 William J. Potter , Garret Cotter

The aim of this paper is to study the squeezing and statistical properties of the light produced by a degenerate three-level laser whose cavity contains a degenerate parametric amplifier. In this quantum optical system the top and bottom…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 E. Alebachew , K. Fesseha

Optically-levitated nanoparticles in vacuum offer a pristine platform for high-quality mechanical oscillators, enabling a wide range of precision measurements and quantum technologies. A key performance metric in such systems is the…

In the curved spacetime of a black hole, quantum physics gives rise to distinctive effects such as Hawking radiation and maximally fast scrambling. Here, we present a scheme for an analogue quantum simulation of (1 + 1) and (2 +…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-03-13 Asmae Benhemou , Georgia Nixon , Aydin Deger , Ulrich Schneider , Jiannis K. Pachos

Relativistic plasma jets are observed in many accreting black holes. According to theory, coiled magnetic fields close to the black hole accelerate and collimate the plasma, leading to a jet being launched. Isolating emission from this…

Optical dipole-traps are used in various scientific fields, including classical optics, quantum optics and biophysics. Here, we propose and implement a dipole-trap for nanoparticles that is based on focusing from the full solid angle with a…

Black hole binaries exhibit a wide range of variability phenomena, from large-scale state changes to broadband noise and quasi-periodic oscillations, but the physical nature of much of this variability is poorly understood. We examine the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Sarah Wellons , Yucong Zhu , Dimitrios Psaltis , Ramesh Narayan , Jeffrey E. McClintock

In this work, we investigate the observable optical signatures of the Mod(A)Max black hole spacetime. We analyze key optical features, including the photon sphere, black hole shadow, and photon trajectories, and examine how these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-03 Faizuddin Ahmed , Ahmad Al-Badawi , Edilberto O. Silva

Recently the possibility of detecting echoes of ringdown gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers was shown. The presence of echoes is expected if the black hole is surrounded by a mirror that reflects gravitational waves near the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-25 Hiroyuki Nakano , Norichika Sago , Hideyuki Tagoshi , Takahiro Tanaka

High-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations detected in the light curves of black hole candidates can, according to one model, be identified with hydrodynamic oscillations of the accretion disc. We describe a non-linear coupling mechanism,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara T. Ferreira , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We demonstrate low-threshold random lasing in random amplifying layered medium via photon localization. Lasing is facilitated by resonant excitation of localized modes at the pump laser wavelength, which are peaked deep within the sample…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Milner , A. Z. Genack

Gravitational waves (GWs) are lensed by matter, offering a unique probe of both the large-scale structure of the Universe and the fundamental properties of GW propagation. GWs can also be affected by wave optics effects when their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Juno C. L. Chan , Conor Dyson , Matilde Garcia , Jaime Redondo-Yuste , Luka Vujeva

Particles trapped by optical tweezers, behaving as mechanical oscillators in an optomechanical system, have found tremendous applications in various disciplines and are still arousing research interest in frontier and fundamental physics.…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-21 Lei-Ming Zhou , Yaqiang Qin , Yuanjie Yang , Yuqiang Jiang

Random lasers are promising in the spectral regime, wherein conventional lasers are unavailable, with advantages of low fabrication costs and applicability of diverse gain materials. However, their practical application is hindered by high…

Optics · Physics 2022-12-19 ChulMin Oh , Ho Jin Ma , KyeoReh Lee , Do Kyung Kim , YongKeun Park

Light experiences a non-uniformly moving medium as an effective gravitational field, endowed with an effective metric tensor $\tilde{g}^{\mu \nu}=\eta^{\mu \nu}+(n^2-1)u^\mu u^\nu$, $n$ being the refractive index and $u^\mu$ the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-14 I. Brevik , G. Halnes