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Understanding the interplay between quantum mechanical systems and gravity is a crucial step towards unifying these two fundamental ideas. Recent theoretical developments have explored how global properties of spacetime would cause a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-21 Flynn Linton , Shubhanshu Tiwari

Every emission of radiation in gravity also includes a nonwavelike component that leaves a permanent change in proper distances of the spacetime it travels through. This phenomenon is known as gravitational displacement memory. Building up…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-21 Lavinia Heisenberg , Benedetta Rosatello , Guangzi Xu , Jann Zosso

The gravitational field of a laser pulse of finite lifetime, is investigated in the framework of linearized gravity. Although the effects are very small, they may be of fundamental physical interest. It is shown that the gravitational field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-04 Dennis Rätzel , Martin Wilkens , Ralf Menzel

We give an account of the gravitational memory effect in the presence of the exact plane wave solution of Einstein's vacuum equations. This allows an elementary but exact description of the soft gravitons and how their presence may be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-13 P. M. Zhang , C. Duval , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

We analyze the motion of test particles in the spacetime of the plane-fronted (pp) waves with torsion in four-dimensions. We conclude that there is a velocity memory effect in the direction of advanced time and along radial direction, while…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-23 Branislav Cvetković , Dejan Simić

Gravitational wave memory is an important prediction of general relativity, which has not been detected yet. Amounts of memory events can form a stochastic gravitational wave memory background. Here we find that memory background can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-12 Zhi-Chao Zhao , Zhoujian Cao

This article aims at comparing gravitational wave memory effect in a Schwarzschild spacetime with that of other compact objects with static and spherically symmetric spacetime, with the purpose of proposing a procedure for differentiating…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-12 Soumya Bhattacharya , Shramana Ghosh

With the multitude of gravitational wave observations that have been made in the past ten years, probing the dynamical and nonlinear nature of strong gravity is becoming more and more feasible. One promising way to test the nonlinear nature…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-28 Keefe Mitman , Maximiliano Isi , Will M. Farr

The conventional gravitational memory effect is a relative displacement in the position of two detectors induced by radiative energy flux. We find a new type of gravitational `spin memory' in which beams on clockwise and counterclockwise…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 Sabrina Pasterski , Andrew Strominger , Alexander Zhiboedov

We argue that soft gravitational radiation leads to a misidentification of the angular momentum of stars seen in distant galaxies, and that this could be interpreted as an additional mass inside the orbit of the star. It is tempting to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-16 Tom Banks , Willy Fischler

The memory effect is known to introduce a permanent displacement in the gravitational wave (GW) detectors after the passage of a GW signal. While the linear memory adheres to the source properties, the non-linear memory is a secondary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Samik Dutta , Ankur Chhabra , Aritra Banerjee , Sajal Mukherjee , Subhendra Mohanty

We present a unified investigation of memory effect in Einstein-Maxwell theory. We specify two types of memory effect, a velocity kick and a position displacement, by examining the motion of a single free falling charged test particle. Our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-24 Pujian Mao , Wen-Di Tan

The memory effect of test particles interacting with pp-wave Gaussian pulses is investigated for polarization modes beyond the standard quadrupolar $+$ and $\times$ states. Massive geodesic equations are solved numerically for several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-31 F. L. Carneiro , H. P. de Carvalho , M. P. Lobo , L. A. Cabral

Gravitational waves are predicted by the general theory of relativity. It has been shown that gravitational waves have a nonlinear memory, displacing test masses permanently. This is called the Christodoulou memory. We proved that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Lydia Bieri , PoNing Chen , Shing-Tung Yau

The memory effect in gravitational waves is a direct prediction of general relativity. The presence of the memory effect in gravitational wave signals not only serves as a test for general relativity but also establishes connections between…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 Shuo Sun , Changfu Shi , Jian-dong Zhang , Jianwei Mei

Classical soft graviton theorem gives the gravitational wave-form at future null infinity at late retarded time $u$ for a general classical scattering. The large $u$ expansion has three known universal terms: the constant term, the term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-02 Biswajit Sahoo , Ashoke Sen

Gravitational memory effects and the BMS freedoms exhibited at future null infinity have recently been resolved and utilized in numerical relativity simulations. With this, gravitational wave models and our understanding of the fundamental…

The geodesic deviation of a pair of test particles is an natural observable for the gravitational memory effect. Nevertheless in curved spacetime, this observable is plagued with various issues that need to be clarified before one can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-27 Chong-Sun Chu , Yoji Koyama

Gravitational-wave memory, a strong-field effect of general relativity, manifests itself as a permanent displacement in spacetime. We develop a Bayesian framework to detect gravitational-wave memory with the Advanced LIGO/Virgo detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-29 Moritz Hübner , Colm Talbot , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane

In nonlocal general relativity, linearized gravitational waves are damped as they propagate from the source to the receiver in the Minkowski vacuum. Nonlocal gravity is a generalization of Einstein's theory of gravitation in which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 B. Mashhoon