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We derive some of the central equations governing quantum fluctuations in gravitational waves, making use of general relativity as a sensible effective quantum theory at large distances. We begin with a review of classical gravitational…

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We discuss the quantum mechanical description of a gravitational wave interacting with a cavity electromagnetic field. Quantum fluctuations of the gravitational vacuum induce squeezing in the optical field. Moreover, this squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Thiago Guerreiro

It is well-known that the primordial scalar curvature and tensor perturbations, $\zeta$ and $\gamma_{ij}$, are conserved on super-horizon scales in minimal inflation models. However, their wave functional has a rapidly oscillating phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-04 Sirui Ning , Chon Man Sou , Yi Wang

The question whether gravitational waves are quantised or not can in principle be answered by the help of correlation measurements. If the gravitational waves are quantised and they are generated by the change of the background metrics then…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 I. Lovas

Primordial gravitational waves (GWs) with frequencies > 10^{-15} Hz contribute to the radiation density of the Universe at the time of decoupling of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The effects of this GW background on the CMB and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tristan L. Smith , Elena Pierpaoli , Marc Kamionkowski

We investigate the new observational constraints on $f(T)$ gravity that arise from the effects of primordial gravitational waves (GWs) on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies and the BB spectrum. We first show that on the GWs…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-30 Rafael C. Nunes , Supriya Pan , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We propose a new method to investigate signatures of a quantum gravity phase in the primordial state of cosmological perturbations. We formulate and study a quantum model of a perturbed Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe beyond a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-29 Herve Bergeron , Przemyslaw Malkiewicz , Patrick Peter

This thesis focuses on gravitational waves (GWs) that arise beyond linear order in cosmological perturbation theory. In recent years, scalar-induced GWs have attracted significant attention because they may serve as the observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Raphael Picard

We study the induced primordial gravitational waves (GW) coming from the effect of scalar perturbation on the tensor perturbation at the second order of cosmological perturbation theory. We use the evolution of the standard model degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Fazlollah Hajkarim , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

We provide experimental evidence of quantum features in bi-partite states classified as entirely classical according to a conventional criterion based on the Glauber P-function but possessing non-zero Gaussian quantum discord. Their quantum…

There exist observational evidence to believe the existence of primordial magnetic fields generated during inflation. We study primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) during inflation in the presence of magnetic fields sustained by a gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-09 Sugumi Kanno , Ann Mukuno , Jiro Soda , Kazushige Ueda

The physics of low-energy quantum systems is usually studied without explicit consideration of the background spacetime. Phenomena inherent to quantum theory on curved space-time, such as Hawking radiation, are typically assumed to be only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-02 Igor Pikovski , Magdalena Zych , Fabio Costa , Caslav Brukner

In recent work we analyzed the evolution of primordial perturbations satisfying Planck-scale-modified dispersion relations and showed that there is no cosmological "squeezing" in the critical model that produces perturbations with a scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-07 Giulia Gubitosi , Joao Magueijo

Transition to the semiclassical behaviour and the decoherence process for inhomogeneous perturbations generated from the vacuum state during an inflationary stage in the early Universe are considered both in the Heisenberg and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 David Polarski , Alexei A. Starobinsky

Stochastic background of gravitational waves (GW) generated by the interactions between primordial black holes (PBH) in the early universe and by PBH evaporation is considered. If PBHs dominated in the cosmological energy density prior to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-02 A. D. Dolgov

Few studies explored the dynamics of non-classical correlations besides entanglement in open multipartite quantum systems. Here, we address the time-evolution of quantum discord and entanglement in a model of three non-interacting qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-11 Fabrizio Buscemi , Paolo Bordone

Some approaches to Quantum Gravity (QG) entail decoherence of quantum matter propagating in it, due to an ``environment'' of QG degrees of freedom inaccessible to low-energy observers. In the first part of this talk, I discuss potential,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-14 Nick E. Mavromatos

Quantum discord is an optimal resource for the quantification of classical and non-classical correlations as compared to other related measures. Geometric measure of quantum discord is another measure of quantum correlations. Recently, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-06 M. Ramzan

A unified framework is developed for determining whether a gravitational-wave (GW) background behaves as a classical field or as a genuinely quantum environment. Unified here means that both descriptions originate from the same tidal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-09 Partha Nandi , Sankarshan Sahu , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi , Francesco Petruccione

Curvature perturbations induce gravitational waves (GWs) at second order, contributing to the stochastic gravitational wave background. The resulting gravitational wave spectrum is sensitive to the evolutionary history of the universe and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Matthew Pearce , Lauren Pearce , Graham White , Csaba Balázs