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We show that if the visible universe is a membrane embedded in a higher-dimensional space, particles in uniform motion radiate gravitational waves because of spacetime lumpiness. This phenomenon is analogous to the electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Vitor Cardoso , Marco Cavaglia , Mario Pimenta

Gravitational memory is a zero-frequency effect associated with a permanent change in the asymptotic spacetime metric induced by radiation. Although its universal manifestation is a net change in the proper distances between freely falling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-06 Jann Zosso , Lorena Magaña Zertuche , Silvia Gasparotto , Adrien Cogez , Henri Inchauspé , Milo Jacobs

Recent studies have highlighted the sensitivity of active matter to boundaries and their geometries. Here we develop a general theory for the dynamics and statistics of active particles on curved surfaces and illustrate it on two examples.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-01-15 Yaouen Fily , Aparna Baskaran , Michael F. Hagan

The article deals with photon propagation in pp-wave spacetimes in the strong gravitational-wave regime and its consequences for redshift measurements. We show that null geodesics crossing a localized pp-wave pulse exhibit an energy memory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-15 F. L. Carneiro , S. C. Ulhoa , J. W. Maluf

Based on the model of a "soft" cellular space and deterministic quantum mechanics developed previously, the scattering of a free moving particle by structural units of the space -- superparticles -- is studied herein. The process of energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Volodymyr Krasnoholovets

It is well known that energy fluxes will produce gravitational wave memory. The gravitational wave memory produced by background including cosmic microwave background (CMB), cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B), and gravitational wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Zhoujian Cao , Xiaokai He , Zhi-Chao Zhao

Heavy particles suspended in a turbulent flow settle faster than in a still fluid. This effect stems from a preferential sampling of the regions where the fluid flows downward and is quantified here as a function of the level of turbulence,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jeremie Bec , Holger Homann , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

We argue that massless gravitons in all even dimensional de Sitter (dS) spacetimes higher than two admit a linear memory effect arising from their propagation inside the null cone. Assume that gravitational waves (GWs) are being generated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-18 Yi-Zen Chu

Using the invariant form of the equation of geodesic deviation, which describes relative motion of free test particles, we investigate a general family of D-dimensional Kundt spacetimes. We demonstrate that local influence of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-07 Robert Svarc , Jiri Podolsky

We study the effects of projection of three-dimensional (3D) data onto the plane of the sky by means of numerical simulations of turbulence in the interstellar medium including the magnetic field, parameterized cooling and diffuse and…

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

The nonlinear memory effect is a slowly-growing, non-oscillatory contribution to the gravitational-wave amplitude. It originates from gravitational waves that are sourced by the previously emitted waves. In an ideal gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-27 Marc Favata

Fast particles are accelerated in astrophysical environments by a variety of processes. Acceleration in reconnection sites has attracted the attention of researchers recently. In this letter we analyze the energy distribution evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Grzegorz Kowal , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Alex Lazarian

Three-dimensional turbulence is usually studied experimentally by using a spatially localized forcing at large scales (e.g. via rotating blades or oscillating grids), often in a deterministic way. Here, we report an original technique where…

Numerical simulations of global three-dimensional (3D), self-gravitating discs with a gap opened by an embedded planet are presented. The simulations are customised to examine planetary gap stability. Previous results, obtained by Lin &…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Min-Kai Lin

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) produce small distortions in the observable distribution of stars in the sky. We describe the characteristic pattern of astrometric deflections created by a specific gravitational waveform called a burst with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-27 Dustin R. Madison

Vortices are believed to greatly help the formation of km sized planetesimals by collecting dust particles in their centers. However, vortex dynamics is commonly studied in non-self-gravitating disks. The main goal here is to examine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. R. Mamatsashvili , W. K. M. Rice

Assemblies of anisotropic particles commonly appear in studies of active many-body systems. However, in two dimensions, the geometric ramifications of the finite density of such objects are not entirely understood. To fully characterize…

Biological Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Jakov Lovrić , Sara Kaliman , Wolfram Barfuß , Gerd E. Schröder-Turk , Ana-Sunčana Smith

Spinning objects which move through air or liquids experience a Magnus force. This effect is commonly exploited in ball sports but also of considerable importance for applications and fundamental science. Opposed to large objects where…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-03-15 Xin Cao , Debankur Das , Niklas Windbacher , Felix Ginot , Matthias Krüger , Clemens Bechinger