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Gravity-induced quantum interference is an experiment that exhibits how a gravitational effect appears in quantum mechanics. In this famous experiments gravity was added to the system just classically. In our study we do the related…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Mohammad A. Ganjali , Zainab Sedaghatmanesh

We study the tensorial modes of the two-fluid model, where one of this fluids has an equation of state $p = - \rho/3$ (variable cosmological constant, cosmic string fluid, texture) or $p = - \rho$ (cosmological constant), while the other…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. C. Fabris , S. V. B. Goncalves

The "gravitational memory effect" due to an exact plane wave provides us with an elementary description of the diffeomorphisms associated with soft gravitons. It is explained how the presence of the latter may be detected by observing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-02 P. -M. Zhang , C. Duval , G. W. Gibbons , P. A. Horvathy

Gravitational echoes can be used to probe the structure of spacetime. In this paper, we investigate the gravitational echoes in different braneworld models in five-dimensional spacetime. We derive the gravitational perturbation equations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Chun-Chun Zhu , Jing Chen , Wen-Di Guo , Yu-Xiao Liu

Schemes of gravitationally induced decoherence are being actively investigated as possible mechanisms for the quantum-to-classical transition. Here, we introduce a decoherence process due to quantum gravity effects. We assume a foamy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-23 Luciano Petruzziello , Fabrizio Illuminati

The evolution of scale-invariant gravity waves from the early universe is analyzed using an equation of state which smoothly interpolates between the radiation dominated era and the present matter dominated era. We find that for large…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 K. -W. Ng , A. D. Speliotopoulos

Future gravitational wave detectors have been projected to be able to probe the nature of compact objects in great detail. In this work, we study the potential observability of the small length scale physics near black hole horizon with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-16 Sayak Datta

The dynamics of gravitational waves is investigated in full 3+1 dimensional numerical relativity, emphasizing the difficulties that one might encounter in numerical evolutions, particularly those arising from non-linearities and gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Peter Anninos , Joan Masso , Edward Seidel , Wai-Mo Suen , Malcolm Tobias

We derive a lower bound on the sensitivity of generic mechanical and electromagnetic gravitational wave detectors. We consider both classical and quantum detection schemes, although we focus on the former. Our results allow for a simple…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-17 Raffaele Tito D'Agnolo , Sebastian A. R. Ellis

We present a general method which can be used for geometrical and physical interpretation of an arbitrary spacetime in four or any higher number of dimensions. It is based on the systematic analysis of relative motion of free test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Jiri Podolsky , Robert Svarc

We consider non-linear plane gravitational waves as propagating space-time defects, and construct the Burgers vector of the waves. In the context of classical continuum systems, the Burgers vector is a measure of the deformation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-27 F. L. Carneiro , S. C. Ulhoa , J. W. Maluf , J. F. da Rocha-Neto

We study the excitation of a one-electron quantum cyclotron by gravitational waves. The electron in such as a penning trap is prepared to be at the lowest Landau level, which has an infinite degeneracy parameterized by the size of the wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-14 Asuka Ito , Ryuichiro Kitano

We review the state of the field of gravitational wave astrophysics, framing the challenges, current observations, and future prospects within the context of the predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-07 Frans Pretorius

We present an alternative derivation of the gravitational clock compass and show how such a device can be used for the detection of gravitational waves. Explicit compass setups are constructed in special types of space--times, namely for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Peter A. Hogan , Dirk Puetzfeld

In this article, spatially-structured gravitational waves are investigated. Drawing upon analogies between electrodynamics and general relativity, a new gauge is found. We investigate the polarization and degrees of freedom of the resulting…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-23 James Strohaber

Gravitational waves provide a unique window into gravity, cosmology, and high-energy physics, enabling the exploration of fundamental phenomena across a wide range of scales. This review presents a coherent and pedagogical framework that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Azadeh Maleknejad

We argue that cubic order interactions between two scalar gravitons and one tensor graviton are ubiquitous in models of dark energy where the strong coupling scale is $\Lambda_3$. These interactions can potentially provide efficient decay…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-26 A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu , Kazuya Koyama

It has been a half-decade since the first direct detection of gravitational waves, which signifies the coming of the era of the gravitational-wave astronomy and gravitational-wave cosmology. The increasing number of the detected…

Motivated by some of the recent swampland conjectures, we study a model of dark energy, in which a quintessence axion slowly rolls in a steep potential due to its interactions with a U(1) or an SU(2) gauge field. The gauge fields produced…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-13 Alexandros Papageorgiou

We investigate the gravitational wave background from a first order phase transition in a matter-dominated universe, and show that it has a unique feature from which important information about the properties of the phase transition and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Gabriela Barenboim , Wan-Il Park