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The gravitational wave (GW) spectrum from the first-order phase transition can be characterized by a few phenomenological parameters but with high degeneracies in model/data distinguishments. In this paper, we look into the high-frequency…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-28 Jun-Chen Wang , Shao-Jiang Wang , Zi-Yan Yuwen

We investigate the implications of memory burden on the gravitational wave (GW) spectrum arising from the Hawking evaporation of light primordial black holes (PBHs). By considering both rotating (Kerr) and non-rotating (Schwarzschild) PBHs,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-02 Basabendu Barman , Kousik Loho , Óscar Zapata

We study primordial gravitational waves (GWs) generated from first-order phase transitions (PTs) during cosmic reheating. Using a minimal particle physics model, and a general parametrization of the inflaton energy density and the evolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-04 Amitayus Banik , Nicolás Bernal , Fazlollah Hajkarim

Despite the fact that we have some proposals for the quantum theory of gravity like string theory or loop quantum gravity, we do not have any experimental evidence supporting any of these theories. Actually, we do not have experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-29 Thiago Henrique Moreira , Lucas Chibebe Céleri

With recent developments in high-precision quantum measurements, the question of whether observations of decoherence from spacetime fluctuations are accessible experimentally arises. Here we investigate the dynamics of bound states…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-06 Teodora Oniga , Charles H. -T. Wang

We discuss effects of loss of coherence in low energy quantum systems caused by or related to gravitation, referred to as gravitational decoherence. These effects, resulting from random metric fluctuations, for instance, promise to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Angelo Bassi , André Großardt , Hendrik Ulbricht

We present a numerical investigation of primordial black hole (PBH) formation from super-horizon curvature perturbations and the subsequent generation and propagation of sound waves, which can serve as a new source of stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Zhuan Ning , Xiang-Xi Zeng , Zi-Yan Yuwen , Shao-Jiang Wang , Heling Deng , Rong-Gen Cai

Preserving quantum coherence is fundamental challenge in the field of quantum computation. Here, I investigate the frozen discord phenomenon and non-Markovianity for qubits experiencing local dephasing in a classical environment. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Bin Yi

Primordial black hole (PBH) mergers have been proposed as an explanation for the gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO collaboration. Such PBHs may be formed in the early Universe as a result of the collapse of extremely rare…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-20 Tomohiro Nakama , Joseph Silk , Marc Kamionkowski

We experimentally determine the quantum discord present in two-mode squeezed vacuum generated by a four-wave mixing process in hot rubidium vapor. The frequency spectra of the discord, as well as the quantum and classical mutual information…

Real world quantum systems are open to perpetual influence from the wider environment. Quantum gravitational fluctuations provide a most fundamental source of the environmental influence through their universal interactions with all forms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 Teodora Oniga , Charles H. -T. Wang

The detection of gravitational waves in 2015 ushered in a new era of gravitational wave astronomy capable of probing into the strong field dynamics of black holes and neutron stars. It has opened up an exciting new window for laboratory and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-14 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Hing-Tong Cho , Bei-Lok Hu

We discuss how a background bath of gravitons can induce decoherence of quantum systems. The mechanism is dephasing, the loss of phase coherence due to quantum geometry fluctuations caused by the gravitons. This effect is illustrated in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-05 V. A. De Lorenci , L. H. Ford

Spin qubits are at the heart of technological advances in quantum processors and offer an excellent framework for quantum information processing. This work characterizes the time evolution of coherence and nonclassical correlations in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-13 Zakaria Dahbi , Mansoura Oumennana , Mostafa Mansour

The expansion history and content of the Universe between the end of inflation and the onset of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis is mostly unknown. In this paper, we study gravitational waves (GWs) induced by matter isocurvature fluctuations in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-22 Guillem Domènech , Jan Tränkle

We perform a consistent calculation of primordial black hole (PBH) mass spectrum and second-order induced gravitational wave (GW) background produced from primordial scalar perturbations in radiation era of the early Universe. It is shown…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-26 Edgar Bugaev , Peter Klimai

We compute the entanglement entropy, mutual information and quantum discord of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) fluctuations in real space. To that end, we first show that measurements of these fluctuations at two distinct spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-30 Jerome Martin , Vincent Vennin

We investigate the primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) in the general scenario where the inflation is preceded by a pre-inflationary stage with the effective equation of state $w$. Comparing with the results in the usual inflationary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-31 Kai Wang , Larissa Santos , Jun-Qing Xia , Wen Zhao

[Abridged] The primary gravitational waves (PGWs) are generated in the early universe from the quantum vacuum during inflation. In slow roll inflation, the power spectrum (PS) of PGWs over large scales, which leave the Hubble radius during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-14 Alipriyo Hoory , Jerome Martin , Arnab Paul , L. Sriramkumar

Using the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) equation of state (EoS) from lattice calculations we investigate effects from QCD on primordial gravitational waves (PGWs) produced during the inflationary era. We also consider different cases for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-23 Fazlollah Hajkarim , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich , Stephan Wystub , Mandy M. Wygas