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We present the derivation and the solutions to the coupled electromagnetic and gravitational perturbations with sources in a charged black hole background. We work in the so called ghost gauge and consider as source of the perturbations the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-21 Claudia Moreno , Juan Carlos Degollado , Dario Nunez

Photonic time crystals (PTCs) host momentum bandgaps enabling intriguing non-resonant light amplification in propagating waves, but opening substantial bandgaps demands refractive index changes too extreme for conventional nonlinear optics.…

Optics · Physics 2025-02-17 Junhua Dong , Sihao Zhang , Huan He , Huanan Li , Jingjun Xu

A gravitational wave must be nonlinear to be able to transport its own source, that is, energy and momentum. A physical gravitational wave, therefore, cannot be represented by a solution to a linear wave equation. Relying on this property,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-02 R. Aldrovandi , J. G. Pereira , Roldao da Rocha , K. H. Vu

A very recent research validates observationally the theoretical demonstrations of the physical non-existence of the gravitational waves.

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Loinger

The diffraction of electromagnetic waves at the surface periodic structures accompanied by strong anomalous effects in different diffraction orders is considered in great detail for high-contrast interfaces. We restrict our discussion to…

Optics · Physics 2019-07-31 T. Rokhmanova , A. V. Kats

In this article we study the influence of magnetic fields on the axial gravitational waves emitted during the collapse of a homogeneous dust sphere. We found that while the energy emitted depends weakly on the initial matter perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hajime Sotani , Shijun Yoshida , Kostas D. Kokkotas

An exceptional surface wave can propagate in an isolated direction, when guided by the planar interface of two homogeneous dielectric partnering mediums of which at least one is anisotropic, provided that the constitutive parameters of the…

Optics · Physics 2022-11-04 Akhlesh Lakhtakia , Tom G. Mackay

Cusps of cosmic strings emit strong beams of high-frequency gravitational waves (GW). As a consequence of these beams, the stochastic ensemble of gravitational waves generated by a cosmological network of oscillating loops is strongly non…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Thibault Damour , Alexander Vilenkin

Both the static and homogeneous metrics describing the spherically symmetric gravitational field of a crossflow of incoming and outgoing null dust streams are generalized for the case of the two-component ghost radiation. Static solutions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 László Á. Gergely

The interaction of two counter-propagating electromagnetic waves in a vacuum is analyzed within the framework of the Heisenberg-Euler formalism in quantum electrodynamics. The nonlinear electromagnetic wave in the quantum vacuum is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 H. Kadlecová , G. Korn , S. V. Bulanov

The influence of the low-frequency gravitational waves coupled with electromagnetic waves in material media on the test masses is investigated. The propagation of coupled gravitational waves in rarefied gases and cold magnetized plasma is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-11 A. N. Morozov , I. V. Fomin

In the vicinity of merging neutron strar binaries or supernova remnants, gravitational waves can interact with the prevailing strong magnetic fields. The resulting partial conversion of gravitational waves into electromagnetic (radio) waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Moortgat

Ghost projection is the reversed process of computational classical ghost imaging that allows any desired image to be synthesized using a linear combination of illuminating patterns. Typically, physical attenuating masks are used to produce…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-01 James A. Monro , Andrew M. Kingston , David M. Paganin

In general, Maxwell's equations require that a wave of electric field be accompanied by a wave of magnetic field, and vice versa. However, it is possible to have a plane wave in a dielectric medium with electric field E parallel to the wave…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kirk T. McDonald

Using non-excessively-technical language and written in informal style, this article introduces the reader to the concepts of electromagnetic and gravitational waves and recounts the prediction of existence of these waves by Maxwell and…

Popular Physics · Physics 2021-07-01 Costas J. Papachristou

We represent and discuss a theory of gravitational holography in which all the involved waves; subject, reference and illuminator are gravitational waves (GW). Although these waves are so weak that no terrestrial experimental set-ups, even…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Bar

A rigorous theory of electromagnetic (EM) wave scattering by small perfectly conducting particles is developed. The limiting case when the number of particles tends to infinity is discussed.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Ramm

Ghost imaging (GI) is an unconventional imaging method that retrieves the image of an object by correlating a series of known illumination patterns with the total reflected (or transmitted) intensity. We here demonstrate a scheme which can…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Yuan Yuan , Hui Chen

Gravitational waves are perturbations in the spacetime that propagate at the speed of light. The study of such phenomenon is interesting because many cosmological processes and astrophysical objects, such as binary systems, are potential…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-27 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

A theoretical description of electromagnetic waves in the background of a (weak) gravitational wave is presented. Explicit expressions are obtained for the Stokes parameters during the passage of a plane-fronted gravitational wave described…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 Shahen Hacyan