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Quantum Electrodynamics (QED) serves as a useful toy model for classical observables in gravitational two-body systems with reduced complexity due to the linearity of QED. We investigate scattering observables in scalar QED at the sixth…

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In the search for a quantum theory of gravity it is crucial to find experimental access to quantum gravitational effects. Since these are expected to be very small at observationally accessible scales it is advantageous to consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Babette Döbrich , Astrid Eichhorn

Loop quantum cosmology predicts that quantum gravity effects resolve the big-bang singularity and replace it by a cosmic bounce. Furthermore, loop quantum cosmology can also modify the form of primordial cosmological perturbations, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Edward Wilson-Ewing

We present a new approach to quantum general relativity based on the idea of Feynman to treat the graviton in Einstein's theory as a point particle field subject to quantum fluctuations just as any such field is in the well-known Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-19 B. F. L. Ward

We consider scattering of light by light in Very Special Relativity (VSR) Quantum Electrodynamics(QED) with a non-zero photon mass. In order to preserve gauge invariance and Sim(2) symmetry we made use of a recently introduced infrared…

General Physics · Physics 2024-06-10 J. Alfaro

We describe an on-shell, amplitudes-based approach to incorporating radiation absorption effects in the post-Minkowskian scattering of generic, compact, spinning bodies. Classical spinning observables are recovered by extrapolating to large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-05 Juan Pablo Gatica , Callum R. T. Jones

Quantum theory is formulated as a probabilistic theory on a flat Minkowski space-time, while general theory of relativity is formulated on a curved manifold as a geometric theory. Bohmian Quantum Gravity approach indicates that one need to…

General Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Sijo K. Joseph

I discuss some issues of perturbative quantum gravity, namely of a theory of self-interacting massless spin-2 quantum gauge fields, the gravitons, on flat space-time, in the framework of causal perturbation theory. The central aspects of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicola Grillo

We study the dynamics of classical and quantum particles with spin and dipole moments in external fields within the framework of the general approach by making use of the projection technique. Applications include the neutrino physics in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-29 Yuri N. Obukhov

Coherent scattering of light by a single quantum emitter is a fundamental process at the heart of many proposed quantum technologies. Unlike atomic systems, solid-state emitters couple to their host lattice by phonons. Using a quantum dot…

We show how to compute classical wave observables using quantum scattering amplitudes. We discuss observables both with incoming and with outgoing waves. The required classical limits are naturally described by coherent states of massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-21 Andrea Cristofoli , Riccardo Gonzo , David A. Kosower , Donal O'Connell

In a previous Letter, we showed that physical scattering observables for compact spinning objects in general relativity can depend on additional degrees of freedom in the spin tensor beyond those described by the spin vector alone. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Mark Alaverdian , Zvi Bern , Dimitrios Kosmopoulos , Andres Luna , Radu Roiban , Trevor Scheopner , Fei Teng

We consider perturbations of the $4$ dimensional Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime induced by the probe scattering of a point particle with charge and mass moving on an unbound trajectory with an asymptotically large velocity. The resulting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-18 Karan Fernandes , Arpita Mitra

We analyze scattering amplitudes with one soft external graviton and arbitrary number of other finite energy external states carrying arbitrary mass and spin to sub-subleading order in the momentum of the soft graviton. Our result can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Alok Laddha , Ashoke Sen

In this work, we develop a general perturbative procedure to find the off-equatorial plane deflections in the weak deflection limit in general stationary and axisymmetric spacetimes, allowing the existence of the generalized Carter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Xinguang Ying , Junji Jia

A unified description of all interactions could be based on a higher-dimensional theory involving only spinor fields. The metric arises as a composite object and the gravitational field equations contain torsion-corrections as compared to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-20 A. Hebecker , C. Wetterich

We study gravitational lensing by clusters of galaxies in the context of the generic class of unconventional gravity theories of the scalar--tensor type. For positive energy scalar fields with any dynamics, the bending of light by a weakly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-01 Jacob D. Bekenstein , Robert H. Sanders

Current models of quantum interference experiments in external gravitational fields lack a common framework: while matter-wave interferometers are commonly described using the Schr\"odinger equation with a Newtonian potential, gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Thomas B. Mieling , Thomas Morling , Christopher Hilweg , Philip Walther

Quantum cosmological models are commonly described by means of semiclassical approximations in which a smooth evolution of the expectation values of elementary geometry operators replaces the classical and singular dynamics. The advantage…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Przemysław Małkiewicz , Artur Miroszewski

We study scalar-tensor gravitational theories using on-shell amplitude methods. We focus on theories with gravity coupled to a massless scalar via the Gauss-Bonnet and Chern-Simons terms. In this framework, we calculate the waveforms for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 Adam Falkowski , Panagiotis Marinellis