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The recent detection of gravitational waves has generated interest in alternatives to the black hole interpretation of sources. One set of such alternatives involves a prediction of gravitational wave "echoes". We consider two aspects of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 Richard Price , Gaurav Khanna

The paper studies the inferences of wave equations for electromagnetic fields when there are gravitational fields at the same time. In the description with the algebra of octonions, the inferences of wave equations are identical with that…

General Physics · Physics 2010-08-13 Zi-Hua Weng

The dynamics of a gravitational wave propagating through a cosmic gauge field are dramatically different than in vacuum. We show that a gravitational wave acquires an effective mass, is birefringent, and its normal modes are a linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-22 R. R. Caldwell , C. Devulder , N. A. Maksimova

We show that dispersive gravitational waves, as a background spacetime, can reflect electromagnetic waves in a plasma. This reflection upshifts the frequency of the reflected wave, being larger for low-frequency incident waves. This effect…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-28 Felipe A. Asenjo , Swadesh M. Mahajan

Runaway electron distributions are strongly anisotropic in velocity space. This anisotropy is a source of free energy that may destabilize electromagnetic waves through a resonant interaction between the waves and the energetic electrons.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 A. Kómár , G. I. Pokol , T. Fülöp

The propagation of a quasi-harmonic electromagnetic wave in a bulk hyperbolic dielectric metamaterial is considered. If the group velocities dispersion is not taken into account, then wave propagation can be described either by the…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2022-11-04 A. I. Maimistov

The transformation of powerful gravitational waves, created by the coalescence of massive black hole binaries, into electromagnetic radiation in external magnetic fields is revisited. In contrast to the previous calculations of the similar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-19 Alexander Dolgov , Konstantin Postnov

A theory of surface electromagnetic waves in gradient media exhibiting arbitrary surface gradients of dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability has been developed. Novel low-loss propagating surface wave solutions have been found in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-02-29 Igor I. Smolyaninov , Quirino Balzano , Vera N. Smolyaninova , Daryna Soloviova

We provide a unified treatment of classical and quantum Gaussian-state sources that unambiguously identifies which features of ghost imaging are strictly quantum mechanical. We show that ghost-image formation is fundamentally classical,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Baris I. Erkmen , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

It is conventionally taken for granted that the unitary gauge formulation of quantum gauge field theory has the advantage of preservation unitarity because only physical fields are involved but has the disadvantage of losing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-21 Er-Cheng Tsai

Ghosts have been a stumbling block in the development of a UV complete quantum field theory for gravity. We discuss how difficulties associated with ghosts are overcome in the context of 0+1d QFT. Obtaining a probability interpretation is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-30 Bob Holdom

Nonlinear gravitational wave memory is a surprise of theoretical physics. Whereas it is understood that a gravitational wave induces oscillatory squeezing and stretching motion in a collection of freely-falling test masses, it is unexpected…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Robert R. Caldwell

Coincidence imaging, also known as ghost imaging, is a technique that exploits correlations between two particles to reconstruct information about a specimen. The particle that relays the spatial information about the object remains…

Astrophysical sources emit gravitational waves in a large variety of processes occurred since the beginning of star and galaxy formation. These waves permeate our high redshift Universe, and form a background which is the result of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Raffaella Schneider , Stefania Marassi , Valeria Ferrari

Gravitational-wave astronomy has the potential to substantially advance our knowledge of the cosmos, from the most powerful astrophysical engines to the initial stages of our universe. Gravitational waves also carry information about the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-14 Vitor Cardoso , Valentino F. Foit , Matthew Kleban

While the presence of ghosts has been known for decades, the impact of these apparitions on remote sensing observations has gone unquantified, leaving atmospheric corrections susceptible to ghosting. In this work, we present the first…

Popular Physics · Physics 2021-04-02 Marianne Cowherd , Isaac Malsky

The appearance of rogue waves is well known in oceanographics, optics, and cold matter systems. Here we show a possibility for the existence of atmospheric rogue waves.

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Stenflo , M. Marklund

An investigation of dust-acoustic solitary waves in unmagnetized dusty plasma whose constituents are inertial charged dust grains, Boltzmannian electrons and nonthermal ions has been conducted. The pseudo potential as well as the reductive…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Annou , R. Annou

The physical properties of electromagnetic waves in the presence of a gravitational plane wave are analyzed. Formulas for the Stokes parameters describing the polarization of light are obtained in closed form. The particular case of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-21 Shahen Hacyan

Correlated-photon imaging, popularly known as ghost imaging, is a technique whereby an image is formed from light that has never interacted with the object. In ghost imaging experiments two correlated light fields are produced. One of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 Reuben S. Aspden , Daniel S. Tasca , Robert W. Boyd , Miles J. Padgett