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Spatial and temporal evolution is studied of two powerful short laser pulses having different wavelengths and interacting with a dense three-level Lambda-type optical medium under coherent population trapping. A general case of unequal…

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We derive several results that describe the rate at which a generic geodesic makes excursions into and out of a cusp on a finite area hyperbolic surface and relate them to approximation with respect to the orbit of infinity for an…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2009-04-16 Andrew Haas

Gravitational waves (GWs) generated by a first-order phase transition at the electroweak scale are detectable by future space-based detectors like LISA. The lifetime of the resulting shock waves plays an important role in determining the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-14 Jani Dahl , Mark Hindmarsh , Kari Rummukainen , David Weir

In our previous work (Phys. Rev. Research 7, 033079), we derived the metric tensor for cylindrically shaped pulses with uniform energy density. Building upon that framework, we derive the complete set of geodesics with zero angular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-29 Riccardo Falcone , Claudio Conti

This work focuses on the incoherent and coherent combination of pulsed laser beams, building on previous research [1] that addressed the combination of continuous-wave laser beams. For the pulsed combination, we have focused on the temporal…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-05 Hocine Djellout

We investigate the fully general class of non-expanding, non-twisting and shear-free D-dimensional geometries using the invariant form of geodesic deviation equation which describes the relative motion of free test particles. We show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-04 Jiri Podolsky , Robert Svarc

In this article, we compare in detail the linear and nonlinear approach to the Gravitational Waves Displacement and Velocity Memory (GWDM and GWVM) effects. We consider astrophysical situations that give rise to gravitational waves with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-21 Lydia Bieri , Alexander Polnarev

The kinematics on spatially flat FLRW space-times is presented for the first time in co-moving local charts with physical coordinates, i. e. the cosmic time and Painlev\' e-type Cartesian space coordinates. It is shown that there exists a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Ion I. Cotaescu

Geodesics become an essential element of the geometry of a semi-Riemannian manifold. In fact, their differences and similarities with the (positive definite) Riemannian case, constitute the first step to understand semi-Riemannian Geometry.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-03-23 Anna Maria Candela , Miguel Sánchez

In the first paper in this series, a class of observables that generalized the gravitational wave memory effect were introduced and given the name "persistent gravitational wave observables." These observables are all nonlocal in time,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-21 Alexander M. Grant , David A. Nichols

As a result of spherical kinematics, temporal evolution of received gamma-ray emission should demonstrate signatures of curvature from the emitting shell. Specifically, the shape of the pulse decay must bear a strict dependence on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Alicia M. Soderberg , Edward E. Fenimore

In this work we derive two computationally efficient frequentist detection statistics that can be used in searches for gravitational-wave bursts with memory in pulsar timing data. By maximizing the likelihood ratio in two different ways we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-29 Jerry P. Sun , Xavier Siemens , Dustin R. Madison

In general relativity, an external observer cannot distinguish distinct internal structures between two spherically symmetric stars that have the same total mass $M$. However, when quantum corrections are taken into account, the external…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-05 Sojeong Cheong , Wontae Kim

The classical uncertainty principle inequalities were imposed over the general relativity geodesic equation as a mathematical constraint. In this way, the uncertainty principle was reformulated in terms of proper space-time length element,…

General Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 David Escors , Grazyna Kochan

Geodesics in moduli spaces of string vacua are important objects in string phenomenology. In this paper, we highlight a simple condition that connects brane tensions, including particle masses, with geodesics in moduli spaces. Namely, when…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-01 Muldrow Etheredge , Ben Heidenreich

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) propagating through cosmic structures can provide invaluable information on the geometry and content of our Universe, as well as on the fundamental theory of gravity. In order to test possible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-25 Alice Garoffolo , Gianmassimo Tasinato , Carmelita Carbone , Daniele Bertacca , Sabino Matarrese

Geodesic deviation is the most basic manifestation of the influence of gravitational fields on matter. We investigate geodesic deviation within the framework of Regge calculus, and compare the results with the continuous formulation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sukanya Chakrabarti , Adrian P. Gentle , Arkady Kheyfets , Warner A. Miller

General relativity predicts that two counter-orbiting clocks around a spinning mass differ in the time required to complete the same orbit. The difference in these two values for the orbital period is generally referred to as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-26 Kaye Jiale Li , Kinwah Wu , Ziri Younsi , Joana Teixeira , Dinesh Singh

In this work we continue with our recent study, using the Feynman-Vernon worldline influence action and the Schwinger-Keldysh closed-time-path formalism, to consider the effects of quantum noise of gravitons on the motion of point masses.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Hing-Tong Cho , Bei-Lok Hu

The interaction between spin and gravitational waves causes spinning bodies to deviate from their geodesics. In this work, we obtain the analytic solution of the Mathisson--Papapetrou--Dixon equations at linear order in the spin for plane…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Ke Wang