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The gravitational memory effect and its electromagnetic (EM) analog are potential probes in the strong gravity regime. In the literature, this effect is derived for static observers at asymptotic infinity. While this is a physically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-02 Susmita Jana , S. Shankaranarayanan

In this note, we provide a tractable example of a polyhomogeneous solution space for electromagnetism at null infinity in four dimensions. The memory effect for electromagnetism is then derived from the polyhomogeneous solution space. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-13 Pujian Mao

We investigate the behavior of massless scalar, electromagnetic, and linearized gravitational perturbations near null infinity in d \geq 4 dimensional Minkowski spacetime (of both even and odd dimension) under the assumption that these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-17 Gautam Satishchandran , Robert M. Wald

Recent investigations into asymptotic symmetries of gauge theory and gravity have illuminated connections between gauge field zero-mode sectors, the corresponding soft factors, and their classically observable counterparts -- so called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-25 Sabrina Pasterski

Memory effects of gravitational waves from astronomical events or primordial universe might have the information of new physics. It is intriguing to observe that the memory effect exists in electrodynamics as a net momentum kick, while the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-13 Daiske Yoshida , Jiro Soda

We show that the amplitude of electromagnetic memory can be significantly enhanced in comparison to known estimates. In a Lorentz breaking phase of lowered phase velocity of light, there exist critical spacetime directions of memory-source…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-04 Jann Zosso

We prove that for spacetimes solving the Einstein-Maxwell (EM) equations, the electromagnetic field contributes at highest order to the nonlinear memory effect of gravitational waves. In [5] D. Christodoulou showed that gravitational waves…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2010-12-15 Lydia Bieri , PoNing Chen , Shing-Tung Yau

The effects of high optical depth phenomena, such as superradiance, are investigated in potential quantum memory materials. The results may have relevance for several schemes, including CRIB, AFC and EIT-based quantum memories, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-30 Andreas Walther , Atia Amari , Stefan Kröll , Alexey Kalachev

The problem of unification of Gravitation and Electromagnetism in four dimensions; some new ideas involving mixtures of commuting and anti-commuting co-ordinates. Maxwell's equations are extracted in terms of the curvature of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G Filewood

Quantum memory effects are essential in understanding and controlling open quantum systems, yet distinguishing them from classical memory remains challenging. We introduce a convex geometric framework to analyze quantum memory propagating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Mei Yu , Ties-A. Ohst , Hai-Chau Nguyen , Stefan Nimmrichter

We investigate the gravitational memory effect for linearized perturbations off of Minkowski space in odd spacetime dimensions $d$ by examining the effects of gravitational radiation from classical point particle scattering. We also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-07 Gautam Satishchandran , Robert M. Wald

Gravitational memory effects are predictions of general relativity that are characterized by an observable effect that persists after the passage of gravitational waves. In recent years, they have garnered particular interest, both due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Alexander M. Grant , Keefe Mitman

We develop a general formalism for treating radiative degrees of freedom near $\mathscr{I}^{+}$ in theories with an arbitrary Ricci-flat internal space. These radiative modes are encoded in a generalized news tensor which decomposes into…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-07 Christian Ferko , Gautam Satishchandran , Savdeep Sethi

We consider the standard Maxwell's theory in 1+3 dimensions in the presence of a timelike boundary. In this context, we show that (generalized) Ampere-Maxwell's charge appears as a Noether charge associated with the Maxwell U(1) gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-24 V. Taghiloo , M. H. Vahidinia

The memory effect is known to introduce a permanent displacement in the gravitational wave (GW) detectors after the passage of a GW signal. While the linear memory adheres to the source properties, the non-linear memory is a secondary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Samik Dutta , Ankur Chhabra , Aritra Banerjee , Sajal Mukherjee , Subhendra Mohanty

Utilizing recent mathematical advances in proving stability of Minkowski spacetime with minimal decay rates and nonlinear stability of Kerr black holes with small angular momentum, we investigate the detailed asymptotic behaviors of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-11 Xinliang An , Taoran He , Dawei Shen

We investigate the memory effects associated with the kicks of particles. Recently, the equivalence between the memory effect and soft theorem has been established. By computing the memory effect from the radiation solutions, we explicitly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-10 Yuta Hamada , Sotaro Sugishita

It has been shown that there are an infinite set of asymptotic symmetries in quantum gravity and QED, and this has been extended to dressed states in some cases. Here we rederive these statements in terms of detectors in order to clarify,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-07 Brett Oertel , Ian Moult , Sabrina Pasterski

We show that the partition function of free Maxwell theory on a generic Euclidean four-manifold transforms in a non-trivial way under electric-magnetic duality. The classical part of the partition sum can be mapped onto the genus-one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Erik Verlinde

The memory effect for Robinson-Trautman waves is explicitly worked out. In a first step, we construct the combined frame rotation and coordinate transformation in which Robinson-Trautman waves are manifestly locally asymptotically flat at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-21 Glenn Barnich , Ali Seraj
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